Leahy's Picture of the Day

Wicket and Blake

2010-03-11T11:59:00.000-08:00

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

Backyard

2010-03-11T11:46:00.000-08:00

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

Master Shon's In-House Tournament

2010-03-07T11:20:00.000-08:00

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

2010-03-07T11:05:00.000-08:00

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

Tae Kwon Do Belt Testing

2010-03-07T10:51:00.000-08:00

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

2010-02-27T08:26:00.000-08:00

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!

2010-02-14T11:27:00.000-08:00

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

Gymnastics Meet

2010-02-14T11:25:00.000-08:00

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

Archery for Blake's Birthday

2010-02-11T21:40:00.001-08:00

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

Blake TKD Sparring

2010-02-10T22:47:00.000-08:00

Blake was sparring Simon.

Blake @Piano

2010-02-06T11:31:00.000-08:00

Blake's piano class with Angela Wentz.

A Man and His Dog

2010-01-31T20:45:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-30T23:42:00.000-08:00

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

Small World

2010-01-30T23:39:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-30T23:37:00.000-08:00

This was taken by my son Marcus, nice one!

Summit Freeride Park - Dirt Day

2010-01-24T18:18:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-17T11:13:00.000-08:00

Just having some fun with a picture of my sweetie!

Belated Christmas

2010-01-17T11:09:00.000-08:00

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

Building

2010-01-17T11:08:00.000-08:00

Marcus latest creation.

Sunset Over South Prairie

2010-01-16T09:29:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-30T16:50:00.001-08:00

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

2009-12-30T10:26:00.000-08:00

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

Present Time

2009-12-30T10:13:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-28T17:05:00.000-08:00

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

Thanks Shelley, Bob and Matthew!

2009-12-28T14:14:00.000-08:00

Opening presents from the Fast's...