A few months ago I had the opportunity to be a part of a great project. One of my photos was found and picked to be used as the cover of 826 Seattle’s 2012 Hotel Book – What To Read In The Rain.
826 Seattle is a nonprofit writing and tutoring center dedicated to helping youth, ages 6 to 18, improve their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. 826 Seattle’s services are structured around their belief that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. For more information, visit www.826seattle.org. If you’d like to make a tax deductible donation, please visit our donation page.
I recently had the opportunity to be part of an amazing wish for a young girl. 10-year-old Robin wished to go to Wonderland. With donations and the help of many people, the northwest chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation made Robin’s wish come true.
Below are some photos from day two as well as links to the many people and organizations that helped.
If you’re a photographer, blogger, or just own a smart phone, you’ve probably heard of Instagram. It’s an iPhone app that let’s to take a photo, add a filter, and share that photo on Facebook, Twitter, or Flickr. It has a cult following. It has spawned countless similar apps. If you’ve used or heard of it you may find this video hilarious. In the style of Stuff Girls Say I present to you…
Earlier this year we witnessed one of the worst natural disasters in the past few years. A magnitude-9 earthquake off the coast of Japan caused one of the worst tsunamis in recent years. Toya Chiba, a reporter with Iwate Tokai Shimbun, went to cover the story firsthand. Here are some photos of Chiba taken from a nearby rooftop by local government employee Shoichi Sasaki.
Toya Chiba being swept away by the tsunami. Photo by Shoichi Sasaki
Toya Chiba being swept away by the tsunami. Photo by Shoichi Sasaki
Toya Chiba being swept away by the tsunami. Photo by Shoichi Sasaki
Talk about getting the shot. Chiba still tried to get a photo, which could easily have been his last if not for his quick reflexes and and a dangling rope that saved him. “It was a complete error in judgment.” he was later quoted as saying “I didn’t believe a tsunami of that scale would come.”
Toya Chiba being swept away by the tsunami. Photo by Shoichi Sasaki
This series of photos raises the question though. When is getting the shot more important than life itself?
For the past few days now, bugs and beetles having been coming to our doorstep to die. And they’re huge! What kind of beetle is this? Oh yeah, handheld macro photography isn’t easy…
Dead beetle on our doorstep
This one's huge!
Maybe he just wanted a quick portrait session. Clients are dying to come see me, hehehe. Oh wow, that was bad…
