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The “way back machine” on I-5

Scott / March 8, 2012 / 7 comments

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It’s no secret that photography has taken a bit of a backseat to many other things lately. As you know, we are in the process of moving to the Olympia, WA area and that has taken an incredible amount of our free time. The good news is that we have found a place, made and offer and we are now under contract. If all goes well we should be closing on our new home in the middle of April.

Since I haven’t had time to get out and do much shooting lately, I thought I would do a “way back machine” image that I made in Olympia, WA back in 2007. This image was taken from Capitol Blvd. and is of the I-5 / US101 interchange. This particular image has actually been licensed a number of times, so there is a very outside chance that you have have seen it somewhere other than here before.

Category: Photography / Tags: "Way Back Machine", Olympia

Glaciers

Scott / February 1, 2012 / 9 comments

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As many of you may know, we are moving to Olympia, WA this spring. We are also in the process of trying to find a place to live in Olympia. This past weekend I took a couple days off of work and flew into Seattle for a marathon house hunting weekend. This image was shot during the flight up on Friday morning.

This is of Mt. Rainier, from the east looking towards the sound. Needless to say, I am really looking forward to having this in my back yard.

Category: Photography / Tags: Mountain, Rainier

Inception

Scott / January 23, 2012 / 11 comments

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During our recent downtown Phoenix photowalk we came across a building that has these amazing curved windows. My friend Chris Frailey included a shot of the building in his recent blog post about the walk, you can see that post here. The building really does seem “out of time” but what really caught my attention was the reflection of the building in the glass windows of the building across the street, as well as the effect that the alternating colors of glass had on the overall scene. I decided to turn around and shoot if from that perspective which also goes hand in hand with my goal of shooting more abstracts in 2012. I hope you enjoy the results.

I have to confess though, I took inspiration from my buddy Mike Olbinski when it came to a title for this post, he has a great series of movie title images, and I thought that Inception would work well for this slightly distorted perspective.

Category: Photography / Tags: Phoenix, Photowalk

Play Ball

Scott / January 21, 2012 / 2 comments

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During our recent photo walk in downtown Phoenix we ended up at Chase Field. I have shot here many times before but I think this is the first time I have seen this area without any people. I had to stop and grab a shot.

You may have noticed that I have not been nearly as active on the blog or in the social media realm. We are completely wrapped up in long distance house hunting, and that has really cut into the time that I would spend online for non-house hunting things.

Category: Photography / Tags: Baseball, Phoenix

Yellow Flower

Scott / January 11, 2012 / 3 comments

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Ok, maybe not the most original title for a post, but it certainly is accurate, and the truth is that I really don’t know the first thing about flowers. This one caught my eye though as yellow is one of my favorite colors and the afternoon light was falling on it in a way that I really liked.

This shot was handheld during our recent downtown Phoenix photowalk, and I guess I could have gotten more detail if I had been on a tripod and used a macro lens, but I like it anyway.