The only house we ever owned was just like the Money Pit-here is the kitchen

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The title says it all…..the house hated us and our renovations even though it was a “fixer-upper” and that is why we bought it.  Here is the kitchen after we renovated:    

The urban landscape in Honolulu takes many forms

The Ala Wai Canal

Honolulu is a city of changing colors and facets. Honolulu is a crossroads between east and west, a true melting pot for ethnicities, religions and politics. Today, Honolulu is not your “grandmother’s Honolulu”.

Olympic Sculpture Park – January 2011

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Living just minutes from the sculpture park in Belltown means we often take it for granted. When the sun broke through on a Wednesday afternoon recently, I was seduced by the idea of the Canon T1i and I heading out for a walk.

Pictures of Cities

Seattle Library

Gotta love Seattle for its street art and sculpture. Of course, there are some who say the buildings themselves are works of art…take our Seattle Public Library as an example. The building is quite unusual and walking through it is an experience in and of itself.

Seattle, An Urbanite’s City!

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We are so urban in this city that if it snows, we cease business. We cease going out of our homes for groceries, booze or dates. We curl up in our houses or apartments and become cabin-feverish. We basically do not know how to drive on snow…and our city does not know how to deal with snow.

Photographing A Wedding

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I “did” a wedding in September. It was my first photographic shoot of a wedding. I tend to shoot in a photojournalism style, liking to be on the edge of the action and shooting with a long lense. I just put together a proof album for the newlyweds to take with them to their family outings at Thanksgiving. It has turned into a 121-photo story of their wedding day. The more I looked at the photographs, the more I “saw” the story unfold. In some ways I saw it better while putting together the album than I did during the actual event. While it actually occurred in a small town, and is not an event on the streets of the Urban Landscape, it is a pivotal point for my photographic journeys.