Early Spring

Early spring here in Seattle. Lots of trees and flowers blooming early. I couldn't be happier as I'm tired of the gloomy winter weather.

Panorama Point

Martha contemplating the view slightly above Panorama Point on Mt. Rainier. Approximately at 6,900 ft above sea level.

Snoqualmie Falls

Dark Weather

Hiking around Mt. Rainier near Paradise. Clouds were rolling in and snow was on its way.

View from Columbia Tower

Happy Birthday Martha!! As any good husband, I took the day off from work to spend the day with my wonderful wife. We've always wanted to visit Seattle's tallest building the Columbia Tower. The observation deck is on the 73 floor and what a view! If you are ever in Seattle, skip the Space Needle (or don't), this is much cheaper ($5 instead of $15) and you have a much better view. In this particular view you can see the Harborview Medical Center, I-5, the intersection with I-90, Lake Washington, Bellevue, Mercer Island and finally, the Cascades way off in the distance.

Seattle Underground

Martha and I took a tour of the Seattle Underground today. The underground is what remains of the old part of town where the ground was eventually raised and created a series of tunnels out of the old sidewalks. There were lots of great shots, but this old isolated chair stood out the most.

South Cascades

Afternoon view from the 19th floor of the Bravern in downtown Bellevue of the south Cascades.

Dissipating

Playing with smoke and lighting.

Dimples

Making use of the light box I got for my birthday to capture this extraordinarily common, run of the mill, cantaloupe.

Green is the New Red

Long, dark, rainy winter days make you come up with weird stuff...

Blue Sky

Flying somewhere over Mexico this past Christmas.

Working from Home

Wasn't feeling well in the morning, so I went back home for some sleep. After a good nap and lunch, I was feeling better and logged on to work from home. It so happens that I got my intervelometer today, so decided to try it out with a short time lapse of me working.

Time period: 2:12pm - 3:53pm
Technique: 1x0.7 sec exposure every 30secs
Equipment: Nikon D80, Nikkor 18-55mm

Music: Theme from Mr. Deity. www.mrdeity.com

Vancouver from Granville Island

Wow, it's been a long, long, long time since I've posted anything. Nearly exactly a year since my last post. In any case, last year, we went to visit Martha's brother in Vancouver and coincidentally, it was one year minus 1 day that we went again. This time, I took a picture of what I suppose is southern Vancouver from Granville Island.

Winter Weather

When I moved to Seattle, I was told it rarely snowed. Well, for the past three years it has snowed every December. Since they are even less prepared here than in Tennessee, the roads are always a mess. In any case, at least it's a nice view out our living room window.

Winter Weather

Deserted Marina

Went out a bit today to enjoy the light snow we got. The Kirkland Marina was surprisingly deserted.

Kirkland Marina

Getting snowballed by Martha

Birthday Candles

Can you guess how old I turned?

Vancouver Kite Surfing

Went to visit Martha's brother Roberto that lives in Vancouver. After visiting her brother in UBC, we stopped at a beach to walk around and got this view of water kite surfers (is that what it's called?) and downtown in the background.

Kite surfers in the Burrard Inlet.

Eyes

Our cat Nibbler peering out of a box he got into.

Waterside

Went for a walk at Discovery Park with Martha. It's been maybe a year since I was last there, so it was nice to visit again.

Jack-o-lanterns

These are the three jack-o-lanterns that Martha and I did for Halloween.