Where would we be without them?
I started my photography in the Snoqualmie River Valley in Washington St. in May of 2015. The last two years have been spent on the Olympic Peninsula where I now live. In that time and with the thousands of shots I have taken some of the best captures have been the friends that I have made.
The friends I have made are a great group of people that love the outdoors and the many beautiful subjects it has to offer. Vickie, Jon and Scott. Phil, Marco and Todd. Tom , Ada and Sally, and there are more. We met at rivers, ponds and fields , wearing waterproof boots and warm coats to shoot birds at sunrise, otters in the river and sun sets at days end. In spring we walk the trails shooting migratory songbirds in sunglasses, shorts and ball caps. Then it’s stocking caps and gloves to shoot the moon and stars at night. We meet for Northwest landscapes, flowers, waterfalls and bees. In the fall there are dew covered spider webs and the valleys and woods are frosted in eerie yet lovely morning fog. And then there’s architecture, portraits and video. The subjects have no end nor the people to find them with and once you have captured something great you will always work to “get a better shot of it”
In the attempt to get the” better shot” it’s another trip to the field, the river or the beach. Sometimes it’s a weekend overnighter camping in the woods or in the mountains shooting the stars. Sometimes it’s longer traveling across the state and out of state finding new roads, new fields and new lakes, chasing Loons, Cranes and even Comets . Pitching tents, rolling out sleeping bags, whipping out a camp chair and sitting by the fire. In the summer of course its shorts and bug juice and with me in the morning there is always a thermos of coffee, winter, summer, spring, fall it doesn’t matter. I love my coffee, and my friends, I love my friends.
