Fujifilm X Series - SB Hopper

Quarantine Views and Sounds

Fujifilm’s 50-140 lens is incredible. It’s not great for hand-held video, at least not in my hands. But sometimes you’ve got to go with the lack of preparation cards you’re dealt. If you click on the video, a warning – it’s wobbly. I tried to apply

Capitol Hill morfire Thai hot pot

The Darkest Depths of Mordor

Always the way of things. I was jotting things down on 3×5 cards that I thought I’d write about. But I get distracted, and it gets late. My quarantine pantry does not overfloweth. Time for a grocery outing. I didn’t have it in me today, though, so

Art COVID

A Quick Walk in Capitol Hill

It was time for some fresh air, so I combined that with a quest for some Wahl clippers. The mop on top of my head needs to go. I struck out at Bartell’s, but I picked up a few things I needed. I liked seeing that most of the

Capitol Hill coronavirus

COVID's Comet and Quarantine Eats

I took a short walk tonight. My belt is telling me that I need to take longer, more frequent walks. I have a mask now (from @thriftchoppe [https://www.instagram.com/thriftchoppe/]), so no excuses. I took my camera. It was nice to shoot some photos. They were pretty lousy

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A Quiet Seattle

I posted the following photo in the previous blog entry post thingy. I keep returning to the photo, though, so I figured I’d give it its own post. I took the photo as I was walking back to Capitol Hill from Pike Place Market. I knew the sliver of

COVID

Today's Lunch

I am terrible in the kitchen. What I do in there can hardly be described as cooking. Usually, it’d be more accurate to call it heating and stirring. I don’t cook – or heat and stir – very often, but in these strange coronavirus times, the world’s home kitchens

Copper Star Coffee

Don't conform

Squarespace can be frustrating with respect to adding photos as individual images. Takes a long time. Squarespace recommends limiting images to 500k. I’ve tried that, but Lightroom often tells me that it can’t make an image that size. I’m probably doing something wrong. Doing a quick, unscientific

AG23

Doggerland, in the mail

In October 2019 I shot photos in the UK and Ireland related to Brexit and Extinction Rebellion. I haven’t posted many of the photos. I wanted to go through the process of thinking about them as a whole, a visual essay, with a zine as the result. I learned

Arizona

Phoenix when it freezes...

If you grew up in Phoenix in the 80s, chances are we can find some shared summer memories. Over-worked, tired moms desperate for a few hours to take care of shit: go ride your bikes, be home for dinner; Fair Lanes bowling alley; the ice skating rink; Big Surf. There

Behind the Bar

Hot as a son of a gun

The Stranger’s Rich Smith has weighed in on a few of his favorite [https://www.thestranger.com/food-and-drink/2020/01/01/42426088/its-hot-toddy-time] Seattle hot toddies. Corvus and Company made the list. I took the photo. I freelance, and I’m in Capitol Hill. You spend a lot of

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How will you pay for that Bernie?

$738 billion. That’s how much the House and the Senate have authorized for defense spending. The bill will now go to Trump to sign. In April 2019, NPR’s Matthew S. Schwartz wrote that the U.S.’s $649 billion was [https://www.npr.org/2019/04/29/718144787/

Correcting Distortion in Lightroom

Voodoo Doughnut

I’m not a doughnut person. I can understand why people like them, though. Obviously, they like how they taste. But doughnuts are also fun. There’s a lot of creativity, art, and food know how that goes into them. Are you familiar with Voodoo Doughnut [https://www.instagram.com/

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Melrose

I’m having a lousy day. I offered to let a friend of mine borrow my car. The garage space I started renting is tricky to navigate for non-residents, so I met my friend there. We went down to the car, I clicked the FOB. Nothing. Shit. I think I

Assembly Mic at Vermillion

Last night I went to Kate Berwanger’s Assembly Mic at Vermillion [https://www.instagram.com/vermillionseattle/]. Assembly Mic [https://www.instagram.com/assemblymic/] is a literary event focused on raw, unfinished works, works in progress, etc. Kate wants you to kill your darlings. And by that, she means that

Capitol Hill

On the Streets: Late Night at Dick's

Dick’s, Capitol Hill, November 2019. Fujifilm X-T2, XF27mm2.8.

Backstage Pass

Dead Spells and Sterling Serpent at Seattle's Highline

On Friday I saw Dead Spells [https://www.instagram.com/sterling_serpent_music/] play at Seattle’s Highline. I really like them. And that sentence reveals a source of frustration – I can’t write about music at all. I like their music, they sound good. Awesome prose, Scott. It’s

AJR concert Seattle

On the Streets: AJR at the Paramount

I had to run some errands downtown yesterday. I spent money on things I don’t need. But then I spent some money on more important things – I stopped in to see a friend working behind the bar. Had a snack and caught up for a bit. I walked home

Capitol Hill

In the Darkroom: Sharpness

I’m not really in a darkroom. I try to keep posts organized with categories. This post will probably only interest people who shoot with Fujifilm X cameras. It might not even interest them. But I’m doing a little processing test and figured it might be handy to have

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On the Streets: A Capitol Hill Tuesday

I went for a meander in Capitol Hill tonight. Took some photos. Here there are. Capitol Hill, Seattle, September 2019. Hot Mama’s Pizza, Capitol Hill, Seattle. Capitol Hill, Seattle, September 2019. Capitol Hill, Seattle, September 2019. Capitol Hill, Seattle, September 2019.

Blur

On the Streets: Movement

These photos aren’t good. You’ve been warned. You have time to click away. I’ve realized that I always seek to freeze action and movement, trying for the fastest shutter speed possible in the existing light. I want to break that instinct. A couple of extras. Jeepney, Capitol

Climate Change

Global Climate Strike, Seattle, 20 September 2019

NASA [https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/]: > Scientific Consensus Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities, and most of the leading scientific organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this position. Young people are demanding that world

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On the Streets: Speckled & Drake

Speckled & Drake, Capitol Hill, Seattle, September 2019. I wanted there to just be a hint of two people talking outside, so I shot this with the aperture at f/2.5 and focused on the foreground. I might see about adding some grain to it.

Eastlake

On the Streets: Eastlake to Capitol Hill

Backstage Pass

Belva at Black Lodge

The first person to ever read tarot for me also fronts a cool band. I think through the trasmutative properties of quantum mechanics that somehow makes me cooler. Belva [https://www.instagram.com/belva_band/] played at Seattle’s Black Lodge last night, and they were great. Bands, if you

California

Paradise

I went back to Paradise, California, recently. Businesses are open and people are returning. Some never left. I talked to one resident who said he wasn’t sure how many people will return. The Camp Fire wasn’t their first major fire. I wrote a little about the visit and