Not in control

Learned a very important lesson from this weeks assignment:
As a photographer we need to be in complete control of our work, lighting, composition, models, all rely on our control to get the "shot"
If at any point we fail to have control we only have "grab shots"

Here are my grab shots of babies swimming lessons ...

Road trip to ruby beach

3.5 hour drive.... blah.

Stopped at Madison creek falls


climbed the 50ft moss covered wall to capture an unusual angle



You can see Carlos framed by the tree branches to give perspective


Then off to Ruby beach.


some crazy white wash... way out far I could make out some over head waves...all monster mush tho.


Played in the white wash with my g10


The ocean was cold!

I thought we were going to get an epic sunset, with the high wispy clouds and all... but








and then I realized I left my 500 dollar canon speedlight at the water fall.... it wasn't there when we returned.. Blah.

Back to school, so that means ROAD TRIP! ....?

School started on the 11th for me, and boy is the work load overwhelming! I have two photography that require constant shooting, And with 13 photos due by next week ( 3 of which need to be printed) plus a torrent of rain I needed to come up with a plan.

Bringing up the idea of a road trip, Fellow colleagues Carlos and Mike and my dog Kodi Packed ourselves into the Mini, and headed out in search of the sun.


our plan was to head over to eastern washington. On the way we made a couple stops

to check out horses

Windmills


and eventually turning around at the petrified forest. where they had me Run up the hill to get some silhouetted images of me on top of the hill. After about ten minutes of running I realized that the hill went far beyond the line of sight from the car. So when I turned around there was no road in sight.

One thing that was pretty cool was that the sun was at a chronic sunset,

here is Carlos waiting for a car to drive by

The next day I set off to " duck cove" to see if I can get some " under the duck" shots.

As soon as my fins touched the water all of the 200 ducks Flew away, about two hours of me hanging out in the cove one duck returned. I gently let him warm up to my presence and was able to get a few shots and watch him dive and hunt for food.

A new QTR, a new life.....

Contemplated on whether or not I should write about this in my blog or not. Wondered if this was too personal or appropriate, maybe my blog is just about posting Epic pictures. But Since I want to be able to recall my journey as photographer and of my life then I think this blog should be a journal as a whole.
Yesterday at 5:28 pm, Brittany got on a plane back to Oahu, This time not just for the holidays, but for good.

With her footsteps onto the plane echoing the loss of a GREAT friend, my photo assistant, and Lover whom I was certain life had sent me to be with for life.

The echos of these footprints sent a dark cloud of locust over my soul, as I read the text of her boarding all hope of a movie ending where slashed, Instead I felt the locust devouring my joy, my hope, my desires for life. What was left was a hollow bag of bones.

As I am left with a siberian to take care of, I feel its a requirement for him to have exercise before I leave for my 13-14 hour day at school. So this means that this qtr, my day starts at 4 am. My night was sleepless, I remember checking my clock at 1205 before I fell asleep. During the night in my sleep I ran my hands down an empty bed, Which woke me up, The time: 2:13 am.


In 5 minutes I will run to the ferry to start my daily commute of the winter session, and honestly I am worried about where it will take me.

FIRE! on 16th & Trenton

While waiting for the next match to start on COD black ops, Brittany looks out the window and notices some strange behavior from some pedestrians across the street. So we step out on to the balcony and see smoke Flowing off the Roof of their house




I immediately grabbed my camera and videophone to capture the events. Jumping on my roof I figured I would get an unusual view of the smoke. Shattering can be heard as the heat from the fire shatters the windows.


After making sure I got a solid image from the roof I headed down to the street, For some bystander point of view ( BPOV)
The Fire was out within 15 minutes of the fire dept arriving. So by the time I got down to the street I missed out on the large plumes of smoke, and was left with a measly smoke trail.

Since the smoke had calmed down I used the words "FIRE" to help the viewer out.





Where was the neighbor in all this? On his way home from Idaho. Poor guy, I could imagine the feeling of having a 3 hour commute knowing that your house is burning down!