Eckhart's First Good Portrait

I feel like I caught the transition here from a baby to a little boy.

Seattle Space Needle

What do you do when you have a classic (ie, boring) tourist shot? The same thing you do when you are eating some bland food. You juice it up. You put some hot sauce on it. So here is a fairly boring shot of the Space Needle in Seattle, taken from a ferry on Puget Sound. Beautiful in person with the wonderful skyline and the mountains to the south but a bit of a yawn, photographically, in this view. Sun was up high in the middle of the day and not all that interesting. So, I put and little hot sauce in a filter and you get a more dynamic shot. Still not an award winner but, at least to me, a little more interesting.

Olympic National Park Dreamy Evening

Sometimes all you want is some nice light, a comfortable chair and a good book. Taken at Olympic National Park earlier this year.

Beautiful Mount Rainier from Puget Sound

Here is another shot that didn't make the blog this year. Beautiful Mount Rainier taken from the ferry to Seattle in Puget Sound.

That's a lot of red

Wow. When you walk by that much red, you have to stop and take a shot. So, I did. This shot was taken on a trip earlier in the year out in Las Vegas. Restaurants need a lot of color to attract customers. I wasn't hungry. I just liked the red.

Baltimore Inner Harbor at night

Baltimore Inner Harbor at night is a very nice view from a Marriott across the street. Sometimes your hotel room has this view. Sometimes you get to see a rooftop with an air conditioner unit. This is better.

Always a good day waking up by an ocean

Found myself in Annapolis a few weeks ago and got to stay at a Marriott along the Severn River, which cuts through the city. A little touristy but a beautiful area with the Maryland State House serving (briefly) as one of the first capitals of the United States, just a few minutes walk from this spot. Very historic as the Treaty of Paris was signed here, ending the Revolutionary War. Always a good day starting off by an ocean.