How Pictures Happen & Other Photo Notes

Setting: In the car, in the alley behind Husky Deli. We’d just stopped to get ice cream to bring to the perfect summer BBq. I’m driving.

Me: Whoa, check out the snappy looking gent at the bus stop. His tie matches the Easy Street pink star.
J [Rolling down the window]: Is there anyone behind us?
Me: Nope, coast is clear… Zoom in, zoom in…
J: Do you want the mural, too?
Me: Zoom in as tight as you can.
J: Okay…
Me: I’m going.
J: You should take another one, we have the light…
Me: No, I can’t, I’m DRIVING…

Time again for the usual note that J takes a lot of our pictures. He doesn’t always see what I see (and vice versa) but that means that we get variety. And he’s game to shoot whatever I point out. I really like this pic of the snappily dressed gent at the bus stop, it’s a nice West Seattle moment.

A couple of other photo notes:

• There’s still time to enter Beth Whitman’s photo contest and yours truly is one of the judges.
• Writer Angela Nickerson is also having a photo contest, you can win a copy of her book.
• Photrade has a new blog: Hyperphocal. I’m on the “Blogger Advisory Board” for Photrade. Their goal is to be a photo sharing and money making service for blogger and now and then, they ask me what, as a photographer and blogger, I think about various things. There’s a corporate blog, but Hyperphocal is their blog for photographers. Not much there yet, but it looks promising.