etodd80's PhotoBlog

20080722 - Surveillance

2008-07-22T20:57:35Z

Don't think of it in a creepy spying way though. I was very unmotivated at work today, so I spent a lot of time looking out the window and watching the people in their daily lives. It was pretty entertaining.

20080721 - Vertical Urban Sprawl

2008-07-21T14:47:21Z

This morning I took Allison to work in Bellevue. After I dropped her off, I walked around a bit and took a few shots of the buildings being constructed. There are something like 12 or 14 cranes all over the city. Its surprising that they are still going strong with all the economic and real estate troubles we are all having.

20080720 - Blog Buddies

2008-07-20T17:48:07Z

So since Julie (TheCrazyCroat) begged me to post few photo action shots, I will. Actually now that I think about it, she might have begged me not to post them. Well, in any case, here are a couple more shots from our photo outing to Mt Rainier yesterday. I hope she won't be too mad, I think these are pretty nice shots. I'm sure they all have a few shots of me in strange photo-taking positions too! And I did take a couple photos today, so I'm not cheating with my 365, I'm just posting these instead.

20080719 - Rainier Photo Adventure

2008-07-19T21:18:57Z

Today four of us blog buddies got together and took a trip up to Sunrise at Mt Rainier. It was Julie (TheCrazyCroat), Mat (MHJphotos), JR (jezterr) and I. We met at 7am at Starbucks for a little morning wake-up, then made our way up to the mountain. We planned to do 1-2 miles of hiking and photo taking, but we ended up going about 4.5 miles and spending about 7 hours on our hike. I'm pretty sure we all had a great time, I know I did. I am definitely looking forward to seeing what shots everyone else came up with. I ended up keeping about 65 shots, and these are my top picks from the day. Thanks to Mat for organizing our trip!

20080718 - Cherry

2008-07-19T05:59:26Z

This is a cherry from the tree in my backyard. The sun was going down, and I hadn't gotten a Friday photo yet, so I took out my zoom lens and shot up the tree. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

20080717 - Drag Race!

2008-07-17T18:59:43Z

So at 2:15 this afternoon Allison calls me and tells me she just got some tickets to go drag racing down at the track and to meet her there at 3! Her office is no where near the track, and I was out working, but we both made it in time and we got to race! I guess there is some NHRA race this weekend at Pacific Raceways because there were booths, tents, trucks & vendors everywhere. We went down and raced on the drag strip with some of Allison's co-workers and some other random people. Allison did great and I didn't do so good...but at least I got to take a few photos once I lost! It was a lot of fun to just slam down the accelerator and drive all out!

20080716 - Ashes' Eyes

2008-07-16T17:43:19Z

This afternoon Ashes was sitting in the sunshine, so I grabbed my 50mm and extension tubes and bugged her for a few minutes.

20080715 - Wood Pile Web

2008-07-15T16:53:45Z

Today I met Rich out at Lake Tapps to do a lunch break one mile swim. After the swim, I took my camera out back and found some nice webs out on the wood piles. I'm not overly thrilled with the way they came out...but here they are. #2 and #3 are the same shot cropped a bit differently. Anyone prefer one crop to the other?

20080714 - Dashboard Buddha

2008-07-14T20:16:55Z

I glued this little Buddha to my dashboard to remind myself to be a more calm driver. Allison would tell you that I get mad at the other drivers way too often. My brother brought this Buddha back from Thailand for me a while back and its a good little reminder. I also notice from this photo that I need to clean my car...

20080713 - Kayaking

2008-07-14T18:01:38Z

We had another great sunny day on Sunday so we went out to breakfast in West Seattle and kayaking on Lake Union with Allison's parents and some friends. I was very nervous bringing my 40D onto the Kayak...but luckily everything worked out. It didn't get wet, we didn't tip over and I got some decent photos.