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2012-01-21 Tet in Seattle
I love bringing in the new lunar new year with a BANG! On Saturday I was lucky enough to catch the opening presentation for Tet in Seattle. It began with a Lion dance and ended with some ear ringing firecrackers. Happy Year of the Dragon everyone!
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2012-01-15 Macros at home
I just got a new macro lens, a nifty 100mm f2.8 which gets in at a 1:1 magnification. It lets me get close and personal into the subject.
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2011-12-02 Garden D’lights
The Bellevue Botanical Garden transforms, taking almost 10,000 volunteer hours to create this magical light spectacle. Here’s a snapshot of a nearby mural. I think it took well over 10 weeks in total to prepare.
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2011-11-12 Under the bridge
Rawr! A monster in the dark on this rainy Seattle evening. A troll is lurking under the bridge.
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2011-11-12 A very yellow day
Just walking around the neighbourhood and the yellowness of the day caught my eye. It just happens to be a very yellow day.
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2011-03-28 Day in South Beach
Here’s a colour picked shot I took a while back in around March in South Beach Miami, FL. The blue sky + water + chairs made for a very blue day.
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2011-11-06 City Lights
I just happened upon this beautiful sunset while driving around Seattle doing errands. I quickly grabbed my camera and headed over to the closest unobstructed point and snapped a few shots.
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2011-10-15 Whiskey Rocks
Whiskey + Whiskey rocks… begs the question, what would Don Draper do, especially in the face of a seemingly ever so difficult problem, when Peggy and Pete Campbell can’t seem to solve the problem, or you just so happened to have solved a problem.
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2011-10-09 Carkeek park
Light and shadow are forever intertwined. Here’s a shot where I deliberately used backlight to cause a striking contrast with the foreground subject. Enough geeky stuff, what better way to spend a sunny Sunday evening than to chase sunsets by the beach. I was lucky enough to catch a gorgeous sunset.
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2011-09-16 Lake Wenatchee
Nothing says autumn in the Northwest better than temperate weather, rolling clouds and mountainous terrain. I cheated again, here I used a pseudo-HDR technique to create a dramatized cloud effect while maintaining lots of detail. As this photo was shot in RAW (CR2), I adjusted the EV in Lightroom and used Nik’s software to achieve the effect. Enjoy!
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2011-09-25 Puyallup Fair
Sometimes you don’t need a fancy schmancy dSLR to take fantastic shots. More often than not, you just need to be at the right place at the right time. Here’s a sunset shot at the Puyallup Fair. “Kersplash!”
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2011-09-30 Sunrise
Just so happens I caught this wonderful sunrise Friday morning. I cheated a bit, I had my camera set to auto-bracketing +/- 1 ev and then merged the exposure with Nik’s software to produce this stunning HDR.
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2011-08-27 Blueberry Picking at Remlinger Farms
MMmmm blueberries. Ian, Ching, Ching’s mom and I went out to pick blueberries up at Remlinger Farms near Carnation, WA. I picked about 2lbs worth they were quite delicious.
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2011-08-06 Rattlesnake Ledge and Discovery Park
Trekking up to Rattlesnake ledge I was met with a lot of mist and fog. What a great day to try out my new 17-40mm F/4.0 ultra-wide zoom lens. This is a sharp lens, I expect to be using this in the great outdoors more often.
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Sometimes the absence of colour can really bring out a scene. Here’s a shot with my little point and shoot S90 taken at night.
