News and Adventures
What’s a Geotag and Where Can I Buy One?
One of my faithful readers recently commented that she found it interesting that I could keep track of all the crazy (to us) Icelandic names of locations where my recent images were taken. Actually, that’s a very good point. I mean, keeping track of details on a shoot is hard enough anyway, but shooting in places with names like Ingjaldshólskirkja on the Snæfellsnes [ˈstn̥aiːfɛlsˌnɛːs] peninsula makes it even more difficult.
read moreThis is BeerZaar!
Believe it or not, another year has gone by, and it’s time again for the…wait for it…2nd Annual Rogue Christmas BeerZaar at the Issaquah Brewhouse! This is your opportunity to come out and have a pint or two while shopping for great Christmas gifts hand crafted by local artists and craftsmen-persons.
read moreSMALL Business Saturday® – It’s a BIG Deal!
Tucked in between Black Friday, which we celebrate by camping out in front of Best Buy and Wal-Mart so we can be the first in line to knock down grandma over the latest junk no one needs, and Cyber Monday, where we spend the day at work surfing the Internet for deals on the latest junk no one needs, is a very important recent addition that is quickly gaining popularity called Small Business Saturday®.
read moreIceland! Land of…Water?
Well, it has some ice, too. In fact it has lots of ice, much of it in the form of glaciers on top of some rather active volcanoes. But it also has plenty of rivers and lakes and waterfalls and sandy beaches. And, of course, being an island it has lots of coastline, as you might expect. Because of its many fjords, though, it has a lot more coast than you would think.
read moreTime for Church!
While preparing for my recent photo trip to Iceland, I studied various travel guides as well as a detailed, foldout map the country, and one item that kept popping up was the little churches that seem to be sprinkled all over the country. I kept coming across photos of these cute little white churches with red roofs, the guide books mentioned them in just about every town, and the map even showed the location of every single church. So I knew I had to visit some of these for myself and see what they were all about.
read moreBeautiful Right out of the Gait
Blonds, brunettes, and red heads, bangs, bobs and you name it, these pretty babes are all about the hair! Of course I’m talking about Icelandic Horses. And don’t call them ponies around a Viking if you know what’s good for you!
read moreFall!
Well, we’re right in the middle of it out here in the Pacific Northwest – fall, that is! Some of the trees still have lots of green on them, while others are about done (especially in the mountains), but there are loads of trees at their peak all around the Seattle area. And they’re beautiful!
read moreBridge of Glass
Thirty miles to the south of Seattle in the city of Tacoma, right outside the Museum of Glass, there is a 500-foot-long pedestrian overpass that crosses I-705 and some railroad tracks. This curious footbridge connects the Museum of Glass to the rest of the Tacoma Museum District, the University of Washington Tacoma, and a few hundred Starbucks locations. But in addition to its function as a footbridge, it is a bit of a museum itself, for it is known as the Chihuly Bridge of Glass.
read moreReflections! They’re Everywhere!
Everybody loves reflections! What is it about reflections that gets people so excited? Of all the types of nature photography out there, it seems like reflections get the biggest reaction.
read moreA Different Land of Zion
In the nearly infinite bucket list of places I want to visit and photograph, the desert Southwest has always ranked high on my list. I mean, how can you beat a place that has beautiful red rock formations, sand dunes, slot canyons, exotic desert plants, flash floods, poisonous snakes, deadly scorpions, and big hairy scary tarantulas? This is a place that has it all! So when my friend Jeremy invited me to join him on a trip he was organizing last Spring, I jumped at the chance!
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