Seattle Photographer

Here is an picture from the weekend of Luna flying through the air to catch a ball. She is pretty devoted to retrieving it and loves to jump up to catch it on the fly. Share on Facebook

A wave approaches Miyako City from the Heigawa estuary in Iwate Prefecture after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck the area March 11, 2011. Picture taken March 11, 2011. (REUTERS/Mainichi Shimbun)

I am amazed by many of the news picture coverage of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan the past couple of days. I lived in Japan for 1 1/2 yrs many years ago, and experienced a few earthquakes there but this is entirely different. My heart goes out to the victims of this disaster. We can all be so vulnerable at times and unaware. It brings to mind how we too in the Pacific NW are living close to the same type of fault lines and scenes like these could be happening on our coast someday. Share on Facebook

If interested see some more of these pictures on the Boston Globe’s site The Big Picture and also on the Alantic Monthly’s site In Focus
Minamisanriku is submerged after Friday’s strong earthquake-triggered tsunami in Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan, March 12. (Kyodo News))

Officials in protective gear check for signs of radiation on children who are from the evacuation area near the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant in Koriyama. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

A man holding a dog walks on a street in Kesennuma city, Miyagi prefecture on March 12. (AFP/Getty Images)

Photography blog by  Daniel Sheehan who creates photography for editorial publications and corporations and is available for commercial photography assignments.

Here is another in a series of corporate executive portraits from recent assignments. As always it is a challenge to try and get something different that works and is satisfying as a creative portrait. Charlotte heads a group of five executives in the Real Estate business and I photographed her and all the members of her team in a beautiful home facing Lake Washington. It had wonderful light and great details. She was really great to work with. this was my favorite shot of her.

Photography by Daniel Sheehan creates photography for editorial publications and corporations and available for commercial photography assignments.

Recently I have been shooting a lot of corporate executive portraits and it is always a challenge to try and get something different that works for the corporation but is satisfying as a creative portrait. When I had to photograph Dean Bennion a VP at Wells Fargo Bank in Seattle, The weather was dark and rainy kind of a typical winter day around here. But I really liked how the sky and water looked from high up over downtown Seattle in the Wells Fargo office Dean works in.

Photography by  Daniel Sheehan creates photography for editorial publications and corporations and available for commercial photography assignments.

I was downtown recently on a typical rainy evening and made this shot of the light traffic on Pike looking west to the Market from the Washington Convention Center.

Photography by  Daniel Sheehan creates photography for editorial publications and corporations and available for commercial photography assignments.

On an assignment for the magazine Businessweek, prior to it being acquired by Bloomberg, I got to go to Everett, WA and photograph the Boeing 777 as it was being assembled. The Boeing 777 is a long-range, wide-body twin-engine jet airliner manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It is the world’s largest twinjet and is commonly referred to as the “Triple Seven”. The aircraft has seating for over 300 passengers and has a range from 5,235 to 9,380 nautical miles, depending on model. Its distinguishing features include the largest-diameter turbofan engines of any aircraft, six wheels on each main landing gear, a circular fuselage cross-section, and blade-shaped tail cone. Developed in consultation with eight major airlines, the 777 was designed to replace older wide-body airliners and bridge the capacity difference between the 767 and 747. As Boeing’s first fly-by-wire airliner, it has computer mediated controls; it is also the first entirely computer-designed commercial aircraft.

Although the plant is illuminated partly by florescent lighting which gives everything a green cast, I corrected for that. The green cast on the body of the 777 is a protective coat and is removed before it completed and painted. Boeing doubled the size of the Everett factory which is one of the largest buildings in the world, to accommodate production of the 777.

Every time I fly on a Boeing 777, I remember how they look as I saw them on my tour to watch them come together here in Washington State.

For some time I have had an interest in photographing neon signs. In New York’s Times Square and in Las Vegas on the various casinos,  neon lighting has been raised to a high art form. So I was happy to be asked on a recent assignment from the Olympic Athletic Club to photograph the exterior of their building and capture the neon sign of a diver extending high up above the top of their roof above the entrance to their parking garage. Note the red light from the clock merge with the blue light to form shades of magenta on the wall of the Club.

Photography by  Daniel Sheehan available for corporate and commercial photography assignments.

It has been a while since I also made a portrait of Ema and Jana,  so while we were out on the cruise on Lake Union last weekend, I made this one of the two of them. Ema is now at 13, taller than her mom.

Portrait Photography by Seattle photographer Daniel Sheehan creating portraits for publications and a Seattle Wedding Photographer with an artistic photojournalist style.

It has been a while since I made a portrait of Ema and she looks quite different from the last time. We were out on a boat in Lake Union and I made some like the one below, of Ema with her sister Claire and friend Yasmina visiting from Europe. Then Ema went down below to the cabin and I shot this one of her in the shade.

They grow up so fast. I should be shooting them more often.

Portrait Photography by Seattle photographer Daniel Sheehan creating portraits for publications and a Seattle Wedding Photographer with an artistic photojournalist style.