Gymnastics Meet

Auburn Gymnastics Center

Wicket and Blake

These guys were hanging out in my room while I was working on the computer.

Backyard

I took Wicket outside before work and took a few shots.

Master Shon's In-House Tournament

Marcus went to his second TKD tournament, a small one in Auburn. He did Forms (Poomse), Board Breaking, and Sparring. He got medals in all and won his grouping in sparring. He was out fast, kicking like crazy and was pretty dominant. He got some points scored on him late in round one, in his first match because he was so tired he could hardly stand. That was from coming out so hard and fast! He did really well and got a big confidence boost. The second picture is his team mate, Simon. He is one of the better kids at TKDC, he lost his match here, but this pic shows a definite point scored, that wasn't counted. This would have tied the match at the end. Fun to watch the higher belts, these guys are a couple years ahead of Marcus and Blake.

Block Breaking

This was at Master Shon's TKD In-House Tournament over the weekend. Pretty impressive.

Tae Kwon Do Belt Testing

The boys were testing for Green to Green Stripe, and Green Stripe to Blue. They did very well!

Lumix DMC-LX3 + Speedlight SB-800 + PocketWizards

I've been experimenting with my SB800 flash and my little Lumix DMC-LX3. A thing I'm very interesting in is that it will sync up to 1/2000 sec shutter speed. (My D300 tops out at 1/250 sec).

New Slippers!

Blake's birthday today. New slippers from Grandpa Bill and Grandma Judy.

Gymnastics Meet

These are from Blake's first gymnastics competition at Auburn Gymnastics Center.

Archery for Blake's Birthday

We went to the Skookum archery range in Puyallup for Blake's birthday. It was fun!

Blake TKD Sparring

Blake was sparring Simon.

Blake @Piano

Blake's piano class with Angela Wentz.

A Man and His Dog

John working in his shop with his dog. He's putting a new crankset on my bike! I'm looking busy taking pictures! Experimenting with SB 800 triggered by pocket wizards, shooting my Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3. Very cool.

Boys on Computers

The guys were playing some game on the computer. I was testing firing my Speedlite remotely.

Small World

A bit less than 20 years ago, I coached track at Tyee High School...this woman was one of my runners - Yvonne!

Shot by Marcus

This was taken by my son Marcus, nice one!

Summit Freeride Park - Dirt Day

This was a freeride jump fest in Black Diamond. Lot's of people have put in a lot of shovel time to make this park happen. Hat's off to them! It was fun to watch. Marcus came a long and did some shooting too.

Painting Effect in Photoshop

Just having some fun with a picture of my sweetie!

Belated Christmas

We had a belated Christmas with my parents. They came here this time. We played games, it was a good time.

Building

Marcus latest creation.

Sunset Over South Prairie

Was taking Blake home from his piano lesson when I noticed this. Stopped and got my camera, then drove to a close, good spot. Didn't have time to find a better spot. The color is pretty accurate to what it really was. I just did a levels adjustment of 4 levels brighter on highlights and 4 levels darker on shadows. That really just made it look more like it did in real life.

Photoshop & Graphic Design

It's been a while since I've done a significant amount of "graphic design" to a photo. It used to be all I did, all day, all the time. Anyway, I like the way this one turned out. There are about 15 years of designer tricks hidden in this...about a million layers and tons of hand work. No filters, no fonts, no downloaded actions, or push button effects. Oh, this is from Brittany's make-up session. We got snowed out the first time!

Hannah and Blake

Hannah was really good with Blake, they played ds and piano!

Present Time

Butch and Kathy liked the photo book Karen made for them, and Cherith got me some Porter, the last of the batch from Redhook. They are no longer making it.

Marcus and Blake at Tom & Becky's

Marcus and Blake passing the time at the Christmas get-together at Tom and Becky's. No other kids.

Thanks Shelley, Bob and Matthew!

Opening presents from the Fast's...

Karen and Cherith

New clothes and shoes!

Mom, Hard at Work

Shoveling snow in Kennewick. Taken by my Dad. He is polishing up on some of the technical details of photography these days with my old D80. He just got a new lens: 18-105mm F3.5-5.6 VR.

Blake's Trampoline

Blake got a trampoline from Santa this year. After a couple of technical glitches, I had to drill some holes that didn't line up, the boys are having a great time. Not sure how the rain is going to effect this...I do have a tarp.

Christmas Songs

Blake played Christmas songs for us, I was very proud of him.

From the Ashes of Destruction

Long time riding partner, Juan Grande w/Sun behind. This is at Victor Falls. We rode this location every Thursday night for about 5 years. It was leveled by developers that later went bankrupt. They took the trees and the trail, but they couldn't take the view.

Marcus, T-Ball 2003

This is one of my all-time favorites. Marcus and Jacob on their first t-ball team. The moment just kills me!

Marcus Takes a Ride w/Destiny...

This is from 2004, Destiny was the little girl that was living with Gail, our neighbor, for a while.

Last Night Watching "The Santa Clause"

50mm @F1.4