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I’m interested in seeing 43 front yard shots (okay the 43 number is a bit cliche… so any number will work)

• Interesting lighting
• Funny/Ironic yards
• Interesting/eye-catching home & yard combination
• Just hit you as interesting.
• day shots/night shots

Well, since it was too icy and snow covered to make it to work today (given I live on a steep hill)... I went for a walk this afternoon and took the following pictures.

There are a few others here

I got home tonight just before a big Snow Storm closed down most of my area and with below freezing temps expect tonight… its not likely I’ll be making it to work tomorrow.

So, I went out again with my DSLR and captured what life presented. a few selected photos can be found here:

Snow 01 10 07

The town I live in is fairly close to sea-level and in a place where lowland snow is not very common. It seems this year we’re in for some unusual snow.

Snow Issaquah 27 Nov 2006

This last weekend (6/10/06) I shot a graduation ceremony for my oldest daughter’s nursing class. I got the following results shot from about 30 meters away using a 400mm Nikon lens and my Nikon D70.

Some more examples are here

Well, I’m going to challenge myself to doing “portrait photography”. I much prefer to shoot photo-journalistically but, the money is in shooting event portraits. So, this year I’m going to be shooting a Dance. At the dance I’ll be taking the dance photos of each couple. This is going to require I be very very meticulous and take repeatable photos. Something I’m not used to doing. Some samples as the photos come available.

Yet another opportunity to hang out with Teens and get photos of them singing. I created a page of my favorites located here

I got this image at the party… Shot from across a room with my Nikon D70 300mm (using a 70-300 zoom lens).

It appears that I love faces, its what I’m drawn to. Capturing people simply being. I love this photo and how the cropping worked out.

Today, I tried expanding my experience range in photography by shooting a Drill Competition for one of my Girl Scouts. The attached photo is one of my favorites from the event.

Additional Shots from the Event

Waiting for my youngest to finish a class she goes to and looked out the sun roof of my car. I saw this tree swaying in the breeze as we have one of our usual late winter/early spring rain storms here in the US Pacific Northwest. Well, it just sort of caught my eye… Here’s a cropped version of the shot. The shot was taken at 18.30 (6.30 pm) and under conditions here that most folks would take as “nighttime” but it truly was twilight.

I like this because of the clouds in the back giving a diffuse backlight and the tree simply becoming a dark lines. (Note, this kind of photography is not something I do much… so I’m starting to play.)