First my heart goes out to each of the family members and friends of the slain police officers in Tacoma. If you have not heard, one I am surprised and two here is a YouTube video. What is most terrifying is realizing that this had happened literally blocks from my alma mater, and I can not tell you the amount of times I saw Lakewood Officers at Forza getting coffee. When I was there studying, visiting friends, etc there were always a at least one on site. Hopefully the point of interest individual ends up being this coward who pathetically shot officers with little remorse. I hope similar actions happen as they had with the individual from Halloween night, these are our cities and it is because of individuals like them that we can all feel as if we are losing a bit of our homes each week.
These next set of photos are from my first photo shoot with the Nikon D40 around Tacoma. This set is focused around the Hill Top just West of Pacific Avenue.
This was a complete adventure. With both vehicles rolling, and my being tall made this a tough shoot, especially since it was my first time. I had three vantage points, in my trunk, out the sunroof and out the passenger window. Sadly, but not so surprisingly all of my pictures from the trunk did not work out. Tough to get a guy that is over six feet to fit in one, let alone take pictures without bashing your head on the trunk lid. Here are my three favorite from that shoot.
Thanks to Kyle Nowadnick (on bike) and James Burnett (driving) for helping with this shoot.
Also before I run, you can tell I have included music, there will be a new song or new artist each week. I will also be hoping to keep it as local as possible. I guess as long as my favorites keep writing songs. This means you Quinton and Cody!
Like I said I will be updating this a lot during this first week. :) This update is a few random shots I have taken, including one style called tilt shift which is done through photoshop. This update will also include my all-time fave (and many others), my space needle picture, a picture of my nephew (I never take pictures of people, which has been pretty obvious so far) and an HDR image.
This is the tilt shift image, it makes the objects of the image seem miniature. Almost Mr. Rogerish if you will. :) Yes this is down the hill of Pacific Avenue, heading into Tacoma.
Since I have a stock pile of photos over the past year so there will be multiple updates this week. For example, this car show in University Place, WA last year.
Since it is fall, and ugly weather in the Seattle area. I have to show my respect to the beauty of the area and its colors. We really do have a fall, and not just rain! I promise!
It has been brought to my attention a couple of times that I should probably put some focus into my photography to get my name out there and start having fun with it. So if you like my work, tweet me, edit your fb status and starting checking out my blog!!
