A Picture a Day...

Early Spring

2010-03-06T23:14:00.001-08:00

Early spring here in Seattle. Lots of trees and flowers blooming early. I couldn't be happier as I'm tired of the gloomy winter weather.

Panorama Point

2010-02-21T18:04:00.001-08:00

Martha contemplating the view slightly above Panorama Point on Mt. Rainier. Approximately at 6,900 ft above sea level.

Snoqualmie Falls

2010-02-14T17:37:00.001-08:00

Dark Weather

2010-02-07T21:34:00.000-08:00

Hiking around Mt. Rainier near Paradise. Clouds were rolling in and snow was on its way.

View from Columbia Tower

2010-01-25T17:24:00.005-08:00

Happy Birthday Martha!! As any good husband, I took the day off from work to spend the day with my wonderful wife. We've always wanted to visit Seattle's tallest building the Columbia Tower. The observation deck is on the 73 floor and what a view! If you are ever in Seattle, skip the Space Needle (or don't), this is much cheaper ($5 instead of $15) and you have a much better view. In this particular view you can see the Harborview Medical Center, I-5, the intersection with I-90, Lake Washington, Bellevue, Mercer Island and finally, the Cascades way off in the distance.

Seattle Underground

2010-01-24T16:50:00.000-08:00

Martha and I took a tour of the Seattle Underground today. The underground is what remains of the old part of town where the ground was eventually raised and created a series of tunnels out of the old sidewalks. There were lots of great shots, but this old isolated chair stood out the most.

South Cascades

2010-01-22T09:15:00.004-08:00

Afternoon view from the 19th floor of the Bravern in downtown Bellevue of the south Cascades.

Dissipating

2010-01-20T23:16:00.002-08:00

Playing with smoke and lighting.

Dimples

2010-01-17T21:28:00.003-08:00

Making use of the light box I got for my birthday to capture this extraordinarily common, run of the mill, cantaloupe.

Green is the New Red

2010-01-14T21:11:00.001-08:00

Long, dark, rainy winter days make you come up with weird stuff...

Blue Sky

2010-01-13T22:01:00.006-08:00

Flying somewhere over Mexico this past Christmas.

Working from Home

2010-01-11T17:22:00.005-08:00

Wasn't feeling well in the morning, so I went back home for some sleep. After a good nap and lunch, I was feeling better and logged on to work from home. It so happens that I got my intervelometer today, so decided to try it out with a short time lapse of me working.

Time period: 2:12pm - 3:53pm
Technique: 1x0.7 sec exposure every 30secs
Equipment: Nikon D80, Nikkor 18-55mm

Music: Theme from Mr. Deity. www.mrdeity.com

Vancouver from Granville Island

2009-12-06T22:43:00.000-08:00

Wow, it's been a long, long, long time since I've posted anything. Nearly exactly a year since my last post. In any case, last year, we went to visit Martha's brother in Vancouver and coincidentally, it was one year minus 1 day that we went again. This time, I took a picture of what I suppose is southern Vancouver from Granville Island.

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Winter Weather

2008-12-18T23:58:00.004-08:00

When I moved to Seattle, I was told it rarely snowed. Well, for the past three years it has snowed every December. Since they are even less prepared here than in Tennessee, the roads are always a mess. In any case, at least it's a nice view out our living room window.

Winter Weather

Deserted Marina

2008-12-14T23:51:00.001-08:00

Went out a bit today to enjoy the light snow we got. The Kirkland Marina was surprisingly deserted.

Kirkland Marina

Getting snowballed by Martha

Deserted Marina47.674805,-122.208481

Birthday Candles

2008-12-13T23:48:00.002-08:00

Can you guess how old I turned?

Vancouver Kite Surfing

2008-12-07T23:38:00.001-08:00

Went to visit Martha's brother Roberto that lives in Vancouver. After visiting her brother in UBC, we stopped at a beach to walk around and got this view of water kite surfers (is that what it's called?) and downtown in the background.

Kite surfers in the Burrard Inlet.

Vancouver Kite Surfing49.286096,-123.207722

Eyes

2008-11-11T23:35:00.001-08:00

Our cat Nibbler peering out of a box he got into.

Waterside

2008-11-09T22:05:00.004-08:00

Went for a walk at Discovery Park with Martha. It's been maybe a year since I was last there, so it was nice to visit again.

Waterside47.660247,-122.431096

Jack-o-lanterns

2008-10-31T19:39:00.001-07:00

These are the three jack-o-lanterns that Martha and I did for Halloween.

Seattle Panoramic

2008-06-14T22:47:00.004-07:00

The Seattle skyline from the Amazon building to the Space Needle. Taken from Alkai beach in West Seattle. Please click to enlarge.

Seattle Panoramic47.59514,-122.384968

Balboa Park

2008-05-05T17:36:00.001-07:00

We spent most of the day at Balboa Park walking around. Enjoyed the Botanical Garden and the Air and Space Museum.

Balboa Park 32.73148,-117.149169

San Diego Red Bull Air Race

2008-05-04T17:32:00.003-07:00

The main purpose of our trip was to go to the Red Bull Air Race. It was incredibly fun watching the planes fly at low altitues at 200+ mph.

San Diego Red Bull Air Race 32.706725,-117.169195

Joshua Tree National Park

2008-05-02T17:26:00.004-07:00

There were so many cool pictures that I didn't know which one to choose. Instead, have a look through this viewer, or go directly to my Picasa Web Album.

Joshua Tree National Park34.016847,-116.162117

Floaters

2008-04-12T21:57:00.000-07:00

Bunched up water floaters. Not sure what they are really called, but they are used to block boat access to docs and other areas.

ISO 400 | 55 mm | f/6.3 | 1/160s sec

Floaters47.608973,-122.344978