Clark Family Photograph
Danielle and Greg Clark are another couple whose wedding I photographed a few years ago and have asked me to photograph the sudden expansion of their family for a photograph they can send out to friends and family for the holidays. Anders is the new addition to their family and what a wonderful boy to photograph. He was a joy.
I am often asked to photograph families in the course of my work as an editorial photographer, and approach it much as I would a portrait for a magazine. Look for good light and with a straightforward approach, show them at their best. Janee and her family made the assignment fun; the rare November sunshine made it easy. Late afternoon filtered sunshine is one of my favorite light sources.
Editorial Portrait of Wayne Horvitz
Photograph of Seattle based musican and composer Wayne Horvitz conducting the New York Composers Orchestra, East and West
The New York Composers Orchestra was formed in 1986 by composers Wayne Horvitz and Robin Holcomb as a means to perform works by composers wishing to write for jazz instrumentation without being confined by traditional jazz and big band styles. In New York, the orchestra was commissioned to perform works by Anthony Braxton, Lenny Picket, Butch Morris, Marty Ehrlich, and Elliott Sharp, among many others. After Horvitz and Holcomb relocated to Seattle in 1988, however, the NYCO repertoire spread out across the US – it has been performed by the original ensemble in New York City, Horvitz and Holcomb’s New York Composers Orchestra West, which very occasionally performed here in Seattle, and the Boston-based Jazz Composers Alliance, which has also showcased some of its scores.
Opportunities to hear large orchestras as adventurous as this, featuring musicians as gifted as this, are few and far between. As Rolling Stone has noted: “The NYCO points directions out of the musical prison that surround too much current jazz. And, like all truly great big bands, it swings its tail off.”
In this Seattle revival, Horvitz presented a stellar lineup of old friends from New York days along with some of the outstanding Seattleites whom he recruited to his cause early in his time here: on reeds, Hans Teuber, Briggan Krauss, Skerik, Doug Wieselman, and Jim Dejoie; on trumpets, Ron Miles, Brad Allison, and Thomas Marriott; on trombones, Chris Stover and Nelson Bell; on French horn, Tom Varner; on drums, Bobby Previte; on bass, Phil Sparks; on piano and organ, Wayne Horvitz. Robin Holcomb conducts and plays piano. With special guest, on guitar: Tim Young.
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Family Photograph
The Kreinherder Family pose for their family portrait not far from their Queen Ann Home
I am often asked to photograph families in the course of my work as an editorial photographer, and approach it much as I would a portrait for a magazine. Look for good light and with a straightforward approach, show them at their best. Janee and her family made the assignment fun; the rare November sunshine made it easy. Late afternoon filtered sunshine is one of my favorite light sources.
Seattle Pro Musica Choir
I photographed the Seattle Pro Musica Choir recently using the panoramic camera and finished processing the first picture from the shoot. We had a beautiful Seattle fall day on the shore of Lake Washington.
Seattle photographer Daniel Sheehan, a photojournalist specializing in editorial photography and portrait photography for publications and corporations, and a Seattle wedding photographer with an unobtrusive, story-telling approach, creating award winning wedding photojournalism, is ranked one the best Seattle wedding photographers by the National Association of Wedding Photojournalists.
The Earth As First Seen From The Moon
This photograph is the first image ever taken of the Earth from the Moon.
When I was young and the first photographs from our space missions began to appear, I was fasinated by their mystery and grace. Science fiction was one of my passions then. When the Whole Earth Catalog began to publish, they used this image below to capture out attention and it is really our generation that had been the first to witness such sights.
Earth Rise from Apollo 8 in Orbit around the Moon
I like to check in on a blog called Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer, by Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)
Here is what they say about the photo on top.
Pictured at the top of this post is the first image ever taken of the Earth from the Moon. The image was taken in 1966 by Lunar Orbiter 1 and heralded by then-journalists as the Image of the Century. It was taken about two years before the Apollo 8 crew snapped its more famous color cousin the photo above. Recently Recently, modern technology has allowed the recovery of higher resolution images from old data sources such as Lunar Orbiter tapes than ever before. Specifically, recovery of the above image was initiated 20 years ago by Nancy Evans, and completed recently by Dennis Wingo and Keith Cowing who lead the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project. Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project. Images like that above carry more than aesthetic value — comparison to recent high definition images of the Moon enables investigations into how the Moon has been changing.
Seattle photographer Daniel Sheehan, a photojournalist specializing in editorial photography and portrait photography for publications and corporations, and a Seattle wedding photographer with an unobtrusive, story-telling approach, creating award winning wedding photojournalism, is ranked one the best Seattle wedding photographers by the National Association of Wedding Photojournalists.
Koliba Forest
Spring In Koliba Forest
Some more of the forest in Koliba that sprint a couple of years ago. It is a forest not far from Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. and is a wonder in spring, and a joy to stroll through. Koliba is the name of a locality in Bratislava, Slovakia, which is situated on the foothills of the Little Carpathians. It administratively belongs to the Nové Mesto borough and is part of the Bratislava Forest Park. The park is managed by Bratislava City Forests, a non-profit organization.
The park covers an area of 27.3 km² (10.54 mi²), of which 96% is covered with forests; the rest consists of meadows, water and built-up areas. The park contains original flora and fauna such as grass snakes, stone crayfish, European badgers, red foxes, mouflons, field maple, and elderberry. The Vydrica river originates in the park’s territory.
The park includes many localities popular among visitors, such as Železná studienka, Partizánska lúka (Partisan meadow), Koliba and the Kamzík TV Tower.
Photograph by Seattle Editorial Photographer and photojournalist Daniel Sheehan an editorial photographer who specializes in portrait photography and photojournalism for publications and corporations.
Daniel is also a Seattle wedding photographer who creates Seattle wedding photography in an artistic, editorial fashion with classic photojournalistic style. He photographs weddings with an unobtrusive, story-telling approach and creates artistic wedding photojournalism.
River
In the Olympic National Park, a river swirls around a small island, in the southern end of the Park not far from Lake Quinault.
Recently thanks to a client who requested some landscapes for her commercial client, I have managed to get around to scanning some of the panoramic images I have been shooting on trips around Washington State, this was one of a series on this river. I also shoot quite a lot of the temperate rain forest. The temperate rain forests of the Pacific Northwest developed where moisture-rich air masses from the Pacific Ocean rise and become trapped by the coastal mountain ranges in Oregon and Washington state. The moisture then condenses and returns to earth in the form of heavy rainfall and, at higher elevations, snow. These forests stretch in a narrow band from the redwood forests of extreme northern California, western Oregon and Washington and continue north through Canada to Sitka in coastal Alaska. Small pockets of temperate rain forests are also found in the Rocky Mountain areas of northwestern Montana at its border with Canada. However, the largest remaining portion of the North American temperate rain forest is found in Olympic National Park in northwestern Washington state.
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Seattle photographer Daniel Sheehan, a photojournalist specializing in editorial photography and portrait photography for publications and corporations and a Seattle wedding photographer with an unobtrusive, story-telling approach, creating award winning wedding photojournalism is ranked one the best Seattle wedding photographers by the National Association of Wedding Photojournalists.
Trees For the Forest
Trees : Koliba, Bratislava, Slovakia 2004
I have been scanning and printing some large scale panorama landscape photographs for the past few days, It is really good to see how they look printed large. I am making them 5 and 6 feet in length. They were shot on film but have more detail than any digital camera out on the market today.
That may change in the coming years if the RED camera company actually produces their version. Of course it will come at a cost. I saw the price list that had it coming in at $55,000.
Photograph by Seattle Editorial Photographer and photojournalist Daniel Sheehan an editorial photographer who specializes in portrait photography and photojournalism for publications and corporations.
Daniel is also a Seattle wedding photographer who creates Seattle wedding photography in an artistic, editorial fashion with classic photojournalistic style. He photographs weddings with an unobtrusive, story-telling approach and creates artistic wedding photojournalism.
Sam Abell
Sam Abell is in Seattle this week conducting a workshop at Art Wolfs place and on Tuesday evening gave a very generous 2 1/2 talk on photography in general and on his new book in particular
His fine, generous, and very personal new book The Life of a Photograph came out last month and it is a natural extension of his earlier book The Life of A Photographer which came out a few years ago.
The new book is about the process of photography. He shows other frames taken before and after some of his favorite pictures, most of them published by NG. There are pairs of picture taken over time; sequences; even failures. Along the way you get a genuine glimpse inside his sensibility, and visual, not theoretical, indications of what it is that makes a Sam Abell picture a Sam Abell. The effect is of a comfortable tour of what it’s like behind one very famous photographer’s eyes.
It is interesting to note that he mentions that the rap against him at the magazine was that his pictures were too quiet. They may be quiet, but there is an intensity and a purity of spirit to all of his images that more than makes up for thier lack of dramatic impact.They reward the patient viewer who spends some time looking at them. Even upon repeated viewing his pictures continue to give pleasure.
In the talk he showed versions of his famous photo of pears on window sill with Red Square in distance, that he took while shooting a story for National Geographic in the early 1980′s at the height of the cold war. He talked about how he made a sequence of pictures and displayed the whole series starting with the first photo he took at 6am when he woke up and then over the course of the day as he continued to shoot as he rearranged the pears and the curtain and the angle of view before arriving at his final famous picture that the magazine used with the story.
Now after almost 30 years have passed he told us that his opinion has changed. Now as he reconsiders his editing decision, his favorite picture is the first one he shot at 6am, not the one made famous from being published in the magazine. The book is really worth the time it takes to go through it. It makes you think.
Seattle photographer Daniel Sheehan, is a photojournalist specializing in jazz photography, photojournalism and portrait photography for publications and corporations. He is also a Seattle wedding photographer with a subtle, unobtrusive, story-telling approach creating award winning wedding photojournalism ranking him among the best Seattle wedding photographers.
Janee Kreinheder
I photographed graphic designer Janee Kreinheder, principle of Swing Creative, yesterday for their website and edited the shoot down to these four portraits as my favorites. Which one do you think is best?
This is often the hardest part of the process.
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Photograph by Seattle photographer Daniel Sheehan, a photojournalist specializing in jazz photography, photojournalism and portrait photography for publications and corporations. He is also a Seattle wedding photographer with an unobtrusive, story-telling approach creating award winning wedding photojournalism among Seattle wedding photographers.
Seattle Wedding Photojournalist
The weather just got cold today as we head into fall and I came across this photo that kind of tells the story. I heard on the radio that there would be snow up at Stevens Pass today, and it seems so early in the season. Then I saw this photo from the wedding of Andrea and Derek at the top of Crystal Mountain and I thought it would be a good time to post it. They were married back on June 28th 2000. That right, Andrea was a June Bride but she still got coaught in a snow storm. It snowed all day until just before sunset when the clouds parted and right there as close as your hand in front of your face was Mount Rainier.
Photographs by Seattle Editorial Photographer and Seattle photojournalist Daniel Sheehan. In addition to weddings, Daniel is a Seattle wedding photographer with an unobtrusive, story-telling approach, creating award winning Seattle wedding photography and wedding photojournalism among Seattle wedding photographers. His Seattle wedding photography is created in an artistic, editorial fashion with classic photojournalistic style.
Seattle Photographer at the Movies
Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra West, Wednesday, November 5, King Cat Theater
This was something different in the course of the Earshot Jazz Festival. There are always some surprising shows and this was one of them.
New York-trumpeter Steven Bernstein conducts his fine nine-piece band, which typically explores the largely-lost music of the bluesy, loose-territory bands. Tonight he performed in accompaniment to three Laurel and Hardy silent films on the screen behind him at the King Kat Theatre and he and the band had a lot of fun with it as did the audience. The Laurel and Hardy films were classic treasures.
Steven Bernstein likes to have his cake and eat it too. The Grammy-nominated trumpeter is one of the hardest-working musicians to come out of New York’s “downtown scene.” He recently released three critically-acclaimed CDs on John Zorn’s Tzadik label and has had his music featured on MTV, Saturday Night Live, and National Public Radio.
His ensemble, the Millennial Territory Orchestra, is an outgrowth of his immersion in the sound of the Midwestern swing bands from Robert Altman’s movie Kansas City. The ensemble was formed in 1999 for a series of midnight shows at New York’s Tonic nightclub, and they subsequently spent a year and a half in residency at the Jazz Standard. The group, a collection of distinctive musical personalities, recently released its debut recording, MTO Vol. 1, on Sunnyside Records. This is sure to be an edge-of-your-seat performance, featuring swing band adaptations of several rock and soul genre classics, led by this wonderfully “left of center” musician.
Click here for the complete schedule for the rest of the upcoming shows at the 2008 Earshot Jazz Festival
Photograph by Seattle photographer Daniel Sheehan, a photojournalist specializing in jazz photography, photojournalism and portrait photography for publications and corporations. He is also a Seattle wedding photographer with an unobtrusive, story-telling approach creating award winning wedding photojournalism among Seattle wedding photographers.
Bill Cosby Jazz
Bill Cosby sits in with the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra Saturday, November 1, Nordstrom Recital Hall/Benaroya Hall
Bill Cosby was scheduled to appear at Benaroya Hall but before he went on he wandered over to the Nordstrom Recital Hall to visit with his old friend James Moody who was scheduled to appear with the SRJO. It was then that he invited himself to make a surprise guest appearance with the SRJO too. So to the delight of the Orchestra and the audience he came onstage and after a brief consultation began playing Duke Ellington’s “Take The A Train” with very funny interjections.
The Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra is the Northwest’s premier big band jazz ensemble. Founded in 1995, the 17-piece band is made up of the region’s leading jazz instrumentalists, both young and old. Committed to presenting the great works of jazz, the SRJO’s repertoire is drawn from the past 100 years of jazz history, including works by Fletcher Henderson, Charles Mingus, Gil Evans, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Gerry Mulligan, Thad Jones, and of course, Count Basie and Duke Ellington.
Click here for the complete schedule for the rest of the upcoming shows at the 2008 Earshot Jazz Festival
Photograph by Seattle photographer Daniel Sheehan, a photojournalist specializing in jazz photography, photojournalism and portrait photography for publications and corporations. He is also a Seattle wedding photographer with a subtle, unobtrusive, story-telling approach creating award winning wedding photojournalism ranking him among the best Seattle wedding photographers.