“If you’re not doing what you love…why not?”

The final day of Penny De Los Santos’ three-day Food and Culture Photography workshop at creativeLIVE was one I will never forget. The field challenges, the raw emotions, the inspiration was simply palpable. I was lucky enough to witness some of it firsthand. On Sunday morning, my wife and I …

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Penny De Los Santos on creativeLIVE

Check out FREE: Food Photography with Penny De Los Santos at creativeLIVE Tweet It was a fantastic start to another weekend workshop at creativeLIVE. This time around it’s Food and Culture Photography with photojournalist Penny De Los Santos. Today was actually less about the technical aspects and more about the …

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SBX Arrival to Seattle

SBX

Seattle will be the temporary home of the Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX) for the next three months while it undergoes some maintenance. According to the Missile Defense Agency’s website, the SBX “tracks, discriminates, and assesses the flight characteristics of ballistic missiles. The SBX provides an advanced capability to the overall …

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Couple of Portraits

Reflected light portrait

I took these two shots the week before Zack Arias’ weekend workshop Foundations of a Working Photographer. Most of the shooting during the class was portraiture, since that’s Zack’s bread and butter. A few of the things he kept repeating throughout the weekend were “head in a clean spot” meaning …

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Tribute to Sounders’ Zakuani

ForZakuani

Last week, Seattle Sounders’ star winger Steve Zakuani suffered a potentially season-ending broken fibula and tibia during an away match against Colorado. Today, the home supporters paid tribute to the number 11 at the eleventh minute mark in the match against Toronto (which they went on to win 3-0!). It …

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