Blocks of Color

When you need a little color in your life. More about these here.

Fisherman’s Terminal Abstracts and Shooting Mindfully

The other day, I took a trip to the local Fisherman’s Terminal to pick up some salmon for dinner, and thought it might be fun to do a short photowalk through the shipyard. September has been cool and sunny, and the light gentle, yet intense. It turned out to be a meditative escape in a playground of shapes, texture, […]

The Space Between

Exploring negative space.

Curtain

rising and falling youth’s grit, vein’s pulse, chest’s caged ribs quiet – i’m still here

Bedroom Desert

Black, White, and All The Shades In Between

In high school, before digital, we shot black-and-white film. It was a meditative practice. Five years ago I took some photography classes and one of my instructors was an incredibly passionate and experienced photographer. No-nonsense, hard-core, bad-to-the-bone master printer, Jhanavi Lisa Barnes taught us the zone system and helped us understand highlights and shadows. How to accomplish these things in-camera […]

Published!

Food photography is a fun and leisurely activity for me, and is usually done with my smart phone. I was recently given the opportunity to submit some photos and write a post about my Filipino Chicken Tinola Recipe (Tinolang Manok). It’s now up and published on my good friend Caroline’s food blog, pickledplum.com. Here are a few photos from the shoot: Like what you see? Try the […]

Tangerine & Aqua

The Fremont Sunday Market in Seattle is a fun place to walk and peruse art, crafts, vintage goods, and wares. On a hot sunny day, sun blazing overhead, I was feeling experimental. Here, I had fun with exposure. I felt like shooting like how it felt – white hot. I think these would be fun as easy poster prints to hang […]

Aurora’s Undercarriage

Aye! This isn’t a naughty post. I was hypnotized by the fabric that’s been draped under the Aurora Bridge due to construction. It was catching a strong breeze, billowing and flapping. In post-processing, I got carried away with the sliders, but found these results graphically futuristic.

Day of Birth / Night Crawlers

Originally posted on hijacked amygdala:
Day of Birth 04:45 She had taken the day off work but forgot to turn off her usual alarm. All hopes of a lie-in were demolished. She was not ready to turn 29. “Let’s call the whole thing off.” 05:22 She wondered if the ravens knew that their continuous cawing…