{"id":905,"date":"2008-05-25T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T18:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=905"},"modified":"2008-05-25T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T18:03:13","slug":"how-pictures-happen-other-photo-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/25\/how-pictures-happen-other-photo-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"How Pictures Happen &#038; Other Photo Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"West Seattle Junction by Nerd's Eye View, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nerdseyeview\/2521117637\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2269\/2521117637_c9a71fb864.jpg\" alt=\"West Seattle Junction\" width=\"415\" height=\"388\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Setting: In the car, in the alley behind Husky Deli. We&#8217;d just stopped to get ice cream to bring to the perfect summer BBq. I&#8217;m driving.<\/p>\n<p>Me: Whoa, check out the snappy looking gent at the bus stop. His tie matches the Easy Street pink star.<br \/>\nJ [Rolling down the window]: Is there anyone behind us?<br \/>\nMe: Nope, coast is clear&#8230; Zoom in, zoom in&#8230;<br \/>\nJ: Do you want the mural, too?<br \/>\nMe: Zoom in as tight as you can.<br \/>\nJ: Okay&#8230;<br \/>\nMe: I&#8217;m going.<br \/>\nJ: You should take another one, we have the light&#8230;<br \/>\nMe: No, I can&#8217;t, I&#8217;m <em>DRIVING<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Time again for the usual note that J takes a lot of our pictures. He doesn&#8217;t always see what I see (and vice versa) but that means that we get variety. And he&#8217;s game to shoot whatever I point out. I really like this pic of the snappily dressed gent at the bus stop, it&#8217;s a nice West Seattle moment.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of other photo notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s still time to enter Beth Whitman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wanderlustandlipstick.com\/hit-me-with-your-best-shot\/\">photo contest<\/a> and yours truly is one of the judges.<\/li>\n<li>Writer Angela Nickerson is also having a <a href=\"http:\/\/aknickerson.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/photography-contest.html\">photo contest<\/a>, you can win a copy of her book.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.photrade.com\/\">Photrade<\/a> has a new blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperphocal.com\/\">Hyperphocal<\/a>. I&#8217;m on the &#8220;Blogger Advisory Board&#8221; 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&#8217;s a corporate blog, but Hyperphocal is their blog for photographers. Not much there yet, but it looks promising.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting: In the car, in the alley behind Husky Deli. We&#8217;d just stopped to get ice cream to bring to the perfect summer BBq. I&#8217;m driving. Me: Whoa, check out the snappy looking gent at the bus stop. His tie matches the Easy Street pink star. 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