Michael Holden's photostream  

Amazon.com Headquarters: Looming larger than life - I used to work in this building. 40 hours a week...hah, right, 40. That was about eight years ago. Went back to shoot this when the Holiday star was lit, and that's why it has all those weird colors on top. The field of view is way over what a planar projection wants to deal with, so I messed with it until I thought iot was marginally better than the alternatives. 14mm rectilinear, heavy tripod, big-ass bogen head. 3 x 9 raw +/- 4 EV to tiff, then smushed to hdr, then actuallu stitched inside CS5, tonemapped in Photomatix, then some lr/ps tweaks. (Copyright © 2012 Michael Holden, All Rights Reserved.)

Peter Hudson's project Charon featured life sized animatronic rowing skeletons. It was awesome.

Freezing Frame: Mt. Rainier and Downtown Seattle at Sunrise - It was cold that morning. Very cold. As in, why the hell do I do this to myself kind of cold. But cold air makes for good shots, as this image ofd Mt. Rainier and Downtown Seattle seems to prove. This is a very small part of a 3 x9 HDR panorama (ie, 9 exposures from 1/8000th to 1/30th of a second f5 at ISO 100). The full image is about 33 megapixels. Hope to release it soon! [[[Update: I guess this is on Reddit's home page at the moment, wowza woo! If you're hungry for Seattle goodness, check out my ridiculously huge panorama of the Seattle waterfront. And if you're so inclined, I'd be delighted if you liked/favorited/+1'd/voted for and or commented upon this photo on 500PX, and/or Google+.

And yes, I do prints. Big. Huge. Prints. Hit me up.

(Copyright © 2011 Michael Holden, All Rights Reserved.)

Heavy handed processing + couple + Burning Man + sunset = kinda cool.

New Years 2012: Space Needle Fireworks in Seattle - I am such a jaded burner. These look so dinky in comparison to our annual wiener roast in the desert. (Copyright © 2011 Michael Holden, All Rights Reserved.)