SEATTLE PHOTOGRAPHERS BLOG

It was a lovely day for a first communion on the last Sunday of April at St. Anne Parish, on Queen Ann and I enjoyed photography the group of boys and girls.

Last night I spent the lovely spring evening shooting from a roof deck of a new apartment building in Queen Anne. The views are quite nice of both the city with Space Needle as well as the Olympics to the west across Puget Sound.

Last month. Lacrosse Magazine, assigned me to make some photographs for an upcoming profile of a local student athlete. It was an inspiring story of high school lacrosse attackman Cooper Woolston, who plays with a prosthetic leg for Seattle’s Division II Nathan Hale High School

Cooper is a junior at University Prep and has been playing at the highest level for years despite having to play with a prosthetic leg. He was wonderful to photograph and has committed to play NCAA Div. III lacrosse at Swarthmore College. I wish him the best of luck in his college career on the field and in the classroom.

On a recent assignment for Workforce Magazine on a story about employees who work from home, I photographed Todd Lovern. Todd works from his home office for General Electric’s Health Care division.
It was a very comfortable setting for a portrait and the light was with us that day.

While walking my daughter and dogs to  school this morning I noticed that this bush looked just like a car on the front lawn of this house in Ballard. Or maybe it is a car overgrown by a hedge. I wonder what kind of car it was? Anyone know or recognize it?

Saturday night I photographed a group of Lakeside students as they were about to leave for the annual OLOT dance. They assembled at the home of Kurt and Mary on Queen Anne , parents of  Philip

and the above picture was taken on the back deck of their  home as the sun was setting. Click here for a link to a web gallery of the entire set of images I collected.

Here are a couple more images.

Bill Frisell performed the music he composed for the film THE GREAT FLOOD by Bill Morrison at the Moore Theatre on March 2. Bill Morrison’s new film is about an event that happened 86 years ago. The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States. It inundated 27,000 square miles and displaced more than a million people and caused over $400 million in damages and killed 246 people in seven states.
Bill Frisell composed some quartet music for the film and was accompanied by trumpeter Ron Miles, bassist Tony Scherr and drummer Kenny Wollesen. It would be something not to miss if they ever do it again in Seattle.

Two-term Seattle City Councilman Tim Burgess was the first to announce his candidacy for Mayor last November and his campaign seems to be going well. I photographed him recently at his home and was warmly welcomed by him and his family. I wish him all the best in his bid for mayor this fall.

I had a recent assignment from a company in Los Angeles that designes and markets custom wallpaper. Needing some pictures for marketing they assigned me to make some images. One of their clients was located  here in Seattle and they agreed to allow me access for a few pictures. This one below and above in the portrait of Trae was one of my favorite designs.