Photography Archives

  1. San Francisco Roundup

    Thanks to everyone’s suggestions (including some write-ins over email), I had a great time in San Francisco! Thursday night Matt and Marta surprised me with pickup from the airport and a late night Thai food run. On Friday, I hit up Blue Bottle Coffee and got some personal stuff taken care of. Then rode the…

  2. Moon at 600mm

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    Even now, I still love gazing at the moon. It takes light 1.3 seconds (on average) to go from the moon to me. So close, yet so far. I took this picture with The Beast.

  3. Blue Angles at Seafair

    Pictures from Seafair have arrived! I worked really hard to cut the field down with this batch. Of the 921 pictures taken, only 29 made the final cut (3.14%). The shot I really wanted was of the Blue Angles in front of Mount Rainer, I got a couple of good photos, but I want to…

  4. Shooting the Blue Angels with the Beast

    They were all out of the 18mm wide angles.

    The Blue Angels are back in town! Yesterday, I got to see them take off from the flight line (one of the many job perks). Today I went out with Rachel and took pictures using the Nikon 600mm f4.0D AF-S II VR that I rented yesterday. The thing is a beast: I got some pretty…

  5. The Setterstrom Wedding (on a farm!)

    Note of Business: I’m testing out a new way of displaying pictures. Typically, I upload photos to Flickr and then include them here on the blog. It’s a time intensive processes that involves multiple steps, multiple applications, and lots of labor. I’ve eliminated some steps by designing a plugin that takes the Flickr Picture ID…

  6. Colstrip

    Colstrip is a little town in the southeast corner of Montana. It’s a former boomtown and home to the 25000-acre Rosebud Coal Mine, 2100 megawatt Colstrip Power Station, and the Hofacker clan[1]. These are pictures of the 2100 megawatt[2] power station: Whence the Lady Hofacker came [↩]1.73 x the power required to operate the flux…

  7. Mike and Tiffany, an Engagement Photoshoot

    Photography is my hobby, not my job, so I can afford to pick and choose what I want to shoot. One of the reasons I took this job was that the prime location was to shoot from the top of the top of the Space Needle. Yes, the very top. Also, Mike and Tiffany are…

  8. An Atkins Wedding!

    During all my travels last year, I did get to do many fun things, such as attending the awesome wedding of Lance and Nicole! I’ve known Lance for several years and he’s one of the most interesting and funny guys I know. He’s also done some amazingly cool things like going on a mission trip…

  9. Tornadic Supercell Thunderstorms

    I spent some significant amount of time (significant for me at least) in Oklahoma last May. I also survived some major weather phenomenon again: From www.srh.noaa.gov:Several tornadic supercell thunderstorms developed over parts of western and and [sic] much of central Oklahoma on May 24, 2011, with extensive damage occurring over many areas of central Oklahoma.…