Monthly Archives: May 2013

Today we got to visit Pike’s Market in downtown Seattle and really enjoyed just walking around with Mark and Veronica (above) and seeing the sites.  We went to the Seattle Antique Mall, the Pike’s Fish Market, (if you’ve ever watched the Food Channel, you’ve seen them tossing the fish back and forth!), and enjoyed the artisans and the great food.  It was a fun day of just enjoying a great city and it’s people.  I dropped by the first Starbucks and bought some fun things for my kids Christmas stockings, yes I start early!  Anyway Mark Kettenhofen has been more than a co worker, and more than a friend, we’ve seen a ton of great adventures together including doing the second America From 500 Feet book as a team.  It was fitting and real gift from God that I would be teamed with him for my last major assignment for Nikon!

 

I also really enjoyed just doing some fun shooting of a eclectic set of subjects, hope you enjoy them!  The image below was a bear in a chocolate shop I had to pose with, thank’s Mark for capturing two pudgy bears!

 

The famous Seattle gum wall, below!

 

 

I may be closing a chapter of my life, by “Any time” with Mark is always welcome!!!!

 

 

Thank you Lord for the countless blessings of this life, especially a friend like Mark!

 

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I had a lot of fun shooting at Rainier yesterday and I really worked Christine falls over good, shooting from different angles and shooting different portions of this spectacular falls!  I want to encourage you to find the images within the original frame!  I will show a number of images made with portions of the first one, at the end.

 

Don’t forget to see what is around your main subject!!

 

 

So, the key is to keep your vision open, and keep looking for elements that can work for a single, stand alone image!

 

 

Blessings,

 

the pilgrim

 

One of the things I love most about running workshops is seeing the excitement in the eyes of attendees when they see some of the wonders of our National Parks!  Today after Mark and I got things arranged for the evening start of ISAP’s (International Symposium on Aviation Photography), meeting, we ran down to Mt. Rainier so i could scout some of the location for my trip back in three weeks for the Palouse/Olympic workshop, with a stop in Mt. Rainier!  It’s been a little while since I shot on Rainier and I wanted to just check out some of my favorite locations again.

 

I had forgotten just how breath-taking Rainier really is.  I’m rally excited to share this great park with our friends in June!  Some of the road we will travel is still buried in snow, but all is expected to be open in the next week or two, just in time for us!  Hope you enjoy some of today’s take!

 

Can’t wait!!!!!

 

Blessings,

 

the pilgrim

Sorry for the late post!!!  I had a frustrating day, and no I’m not back in St. Maarten!! Wish I was, but anyway, my non-stop flight from Chicago to Seattle ended up stopping in Kansas City for refueling and to let off some flight attendants.  That lengthened the trip to almost 5 hours and a child with hurting ears from pressure screamed at the top of her lungs for 75% of the flight.  Thank you Lord for Bose noise canceling headphones!  So I go into Seattle late, and worn out so no scouting today.  I do have a part of the day open tomorrow and plan to shoot down the road to Mt Rainier to scout and shoot before things get going at ISAP.

 

I had the chance today to take some of my own medicine and concentrate on how much God has blessed me in spite of being do tired and worn out from the noise on the plane!  Be careful what you share, you may just have to live it out yourself.  All in in all I’m here in one piece and had a good dinner with some old aviation photography friends and will catch up tomorrow.  God teaches us something even when our plans don’t go as planned!!!

 

His plans are better than our plans, and with that assurance we an get through anything!

 

Blessings,

 

the pilgrim