The snow fell all night. It was light snow, and it was dry and powdery with wind. I guess we got an additional two or three inches overnight and it has been snowing most of the afternoon. This time, though, it’s the more normal big dendritic snow that I am used to. It seems that’s [...]
Since we were not able to get the car out the neighborhood, we walked to Crossroads Mall today to pick up a few groceries. Dawn said that I should show her these pictures in July and she will think they’re pretty. Right now, they’re just depressing.
We woke up to a beautiful morning with some low fog over the lake and the sun shining through it as it rose over the mountains. Don’t forget that you can click on the photo above to see a larger size or other photos in the gallery. Late in the afternoon we decided to try [...]
The snow that we thought would come yesterday made it here today. We ended up with six-and-a-half inches and the temperature was down to 24 degrees Fahrenheit by the time the snow stopped. The forecast doesn’t call for us to get above freezing for days.
Strange weather indeed for the normally mild Puget Sound. Rest of [...]
The skies threatened, and so did the weathermen, but we seem to be in a snow shadow here in Bellevue so all we got were cloudy skies and a bit of snow that was still hanging around after Sunday night.
Lightroom 2.2 is out. What a relief to be able to go back to my normal workflow and not have to run through the DNG Converter first.
The first snow of the winter has started to fall. Forecasts call for cold weather like we haven’t seen in years for the next several days. Should be fun.
The sun was in and out for much of the day today. It was out when I left my office but by the time I got outside the clouds were back and they stayed around until well after I had finished making photographs. This post is one of many that form a fence linked up [...]
I didn’t have nearly as much trouble getting out to take pictures today. The sun certainly helped me capture today’s 39 frames.
Nothing too compelling to me today, though. I felt like I was just standing around marveling at the shadows and hoping that the clouds wouldn’t come back too soon.
This view of a picnic table [...]
I had to force myself to go out and take pictures today. I did not feel like it but I have Ignacy Paderewski’s words in my head (I doubt he said them in English, though): "If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If [...]
40 frames today although nothing particularly stands out. There’s this one where the idea of the picture is much stronger than the result. Dawn likes this picture of the gravel extending deep into the distance.
Shooting and processing notes The 17-40 F4.0 L was back on the camera today. 40mm, f6.3, 1/125, ISO [...]
The sun peeked through the clouds a bit this morning and, playing with the dark bark from the rain, made interesting shapes. I took 35 pictures this morning but expected I would take many more in the afternoon. But I didn’t, so those from the brief spurt this morning stand for the whole day.
This picture [...]
I attended a caucus today for the very first time. I had always thought before that you had to register ahead of time and meet special requirements in order to attend a caucus. There were a lot of people there crowded in shoulder-to-shoulder. It seems like this was common throughout the state of Washington today.
Though [...]
It seems like I spent the whole day in meetings at work yesterday and I was not able to get outside and spend time photographing. I still managed 31 frames, though. And something else happened, too. I made a few pictures in my office but I was still a long way off from my 29 [...]
I had a hard time choosing between this photo of the stairs and this other one.
Not a great day for photography for me. There was a lot going on at work so I stayed close to my office. Not a great move since I was stopped three times by people with questions about all the [...]
This was the first thing I saw at the Overlake Transit Center today and my favorite picture of the bunch. I rode my bike over since I didn’t have time to walk. I knew there would be a good place to lock my bike while I wandered around but I should probably have brought a [...]
I just can’t seem to get enough of these yellow rectangles in the stairwell of the parking garage.It rained most of the day today so I wasn’t able to spend much time outside. In spite of that, I still managed to get 34 frames and cover a range of subjects. Doug Plummer has just posted [...]
This picture loses a lot in the conversion to sRGB for the Web and certainly doesn’t look as good on non-calibrated monitors. I deliberately emphasized the green of the moss to the point that it seems to fluoresce. I downplayed the browns and ended up with a photo that almost looks like a painting: it [...]
I think the hydrangea blossoms are almost as pretty in the winter as they are in the summer and they might make an even more interesting photograph. I spent about an hour walking around my neighborhood, hoping for the sunshine the weathermen promised. The clouds did make some interesting patterns on the lake, though. I [...]
I noticed this as we were going into Crossroads Mall. I was drawn first by the patterns of light on the textured concrete blocks of the wall: on gray days like today I am not used to see light and texture variations like this. I did get my 29 frames in again today (46 frames) [...]