8/365 2011 (2010)

Ok, got the date right today. This actually was taken one year ago today. The only pictures I've taken this year today are on my phone, and that's just me messing around.

Anyway, this is a photo of my friend Malcolm, who I went shooting with a few times early last year. We should do it again sometime, but now that I'm employed, it's a lot tougher.

And it's his birthday today. Happy birthday Malcolm!

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Picture info: ISO 1600, 1/100, f/1.80, 50mm

You know, it's funny. I spent 3 hours today shooting trains in Snoqualmie with Malcolm and what do I post? I picture of the proprietor of a coffee shop and her son. She took over the shop a year or so ago and one of the benefits she mentioned was being able to bring her son to work.

I loved how he was playing with whatever it was he was playing with. Her framing him was an added bonus.

I had the bright light coming in from outside so I bumped my EV up 2/3rds and deliberately overexposed it so I could have some detail of her and her son.

The coffee was good too. :)

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Picture info: ISO 200, 1/2000, f/2.00, 50mm

Man. Malcolm and I did our third Friday in a row in Seattle. This time, it didn't rain! We hit Pike Place Market and it was great. I took about 250 shots and found I liked quite a few of them. As it turns out, Malcolm and I shot a lot of the same things, including his shot of the day. I was tempted to put up my bike tire shot, as it turned out quite nicely, but I think I'll save that for my "reject" pile or soon-to-be Flickr album.

One thing I did today was shoot people a little. I had my 70-210mm lens and put that on to "discreetly" shoot people. Though this shot wasn't done with that, there will be some in my Flickr set.

Anyway, hope you like this and I'll be back to edit a link in for the attached album.

Edit: and here it is: Pike Place Market set on Flickr.

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It's a toss-up. I'm writing this without knowing what I'm going to post. Is it going to be from the morning shoot with Malcolm at the Volunteer Park Conservatory? It could be. There were a bunch of great pictures taken there and I'd be happy with one from that batch.

Or will it be from my evening shoot, where I took a tripod and went out at night and experimented with long exposures, small apertures, and walking around downtown Bellevue?

Which will it be?

Truth be told, there's better ones from the flower/plant shoot this morning. I could also post a good ol' long-exposure-over-the-freeway shot, but, cool as it may be, it's kind of boring.

After looking at everything, I'm going with one from tonight that I just like. It's grainy and a little out of focus, but I think it looks cool.

Picture info: ISO 1600, 1/80, f/1.8, 50mm

I was walking across 108th in downtown Bellevue, crossing from the transit center to the other side. I decided to pause in the turning lane and snap a few shots. It's definitely not my best picture of the day, but I really like it. In fact, I'm sure whatever I choose for my reject pile, people will probably like more.

Let's see what tomorrow will bring.

PS: after driving around Cap Hill and Seattle today and seeing the flavor and personality, boy is downtown Bellevue boring.

8/365

I had a man-date today. Malcolm and I headed out in his SUV for South Seattle. I used to be in a band called Ethyl and we rehearsed down there at a place called the Olympic Foundry. Go look at a manhole cover. You'll see that name. I'd drive there 3 days a week back in the late 90s to practice with Rob and Johnny. I always thought it'd be cool to take pictures down in that area.

Anyway, before driving through the Foundry, I saw a little gravel lot on Airport Way South with a couple decaying classic cars (a red Ranchero and black Galaxie 500XL) parked there. It was raining pretty good, but we jumped out of the car and started snapping away.

In the same area were some railroad tracks, and a high retaining wall covered with graffiti. Needless to say, we found a bunch of great things to shoot. We also stepped in dog poo. That wasn't so cool.

As the day went on, we actually parked in Georgetown and walked a few blocks, had some coffee (where I tried to do some stealth shooting of a girl at a table, reading), walked in the rain some more, then headed off.

We hit Glazer's Camera in South Lake Union and looked around (me) and shopped (Malcolm). From there, it was lunch at a fabulous little coffee shop in Belltown (Cherry Street Coffee House; oddly enough, not on Cherry Street). Next up was Gasworks for some industrial shots. That was cool and all, but for my money, my best pictures were the ones in Georgetown and, specifically, of the cars.

I had a hard time picking a shot, but I kept gravitating towards this one. Hope you like it.

Picture info: ISO200 1/125 f/2.5