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Last night I found thisyoutube channelcalled Walkie Talkie wherePaulie Baldonadowalks around all day with another NYC street photographer and talks to them about how and why they take pictures.

Until this week, I’d only seen Puffins on the box of my favorite Trader Joe’s cereal. No more. I’d also only seen whales from the shores of the Puget Sound. All that changed when I had the chance to g...

Yesterday I had a short-notice chance to head up to Deception Pass and Smith Island to photograph birds (thanks Mike!). I’ll share some of those images later, here are some of the pictures I took befo...

Here are a few photos from a spontaneous Sunday afternoon stroll in the Fremont neighborhood in Seattle. I’ve been reading Sean Tucker’s excellent bookThe Meaning in the Makingand thinking a lot latel...

Here are four very different pictures from a single photo walk that started at my house and ended up at Golden Gardens. I’ll let the mystery be on what was behind the “Adults Only” cloth :)

This small set is from a walk I took yesterday that I took after I drove by this red Mustang then, after I got home, decided to walk back and photograph it for my as yet unreleased “Red cars” project....

One of the main reasons for starting this site was to have a good place to post full-sized images. On Instagram, pictures like these two that show a very tiny rabbit in a big world wouldn’t work:

At the beginning of May 2023 I took a long-weekend trip to Ohio to photograph warblers, small songbirds, migrating through Ohio. This week is a much-anticipated annual event called The Biggest Week in...

Everyone has an opinion on AI images. It seems that for many photographers, based on comments on websites like Fstoppers and Petapixel, the reaction is somewhere between apprehension and fear. I think...

Another set from Golden Gardens, a park near home. This painterly effect is the result of using a slow shutter speed and while moving the camera. In a way, it almost feels like cheating, but I love th...

Here’s a small set of photos from a walk by some railroad tracks in Seattle. None of these turned out exactly how I envisioned them, but that’s all part of the process. I recently came across some quo...

Skagit County in Northern Washington state is a very popular location for birders and bird photographers, especially during the winter when the raptors are there in large numbers. The appeal of photog...