With photo 165 today, I am 200 days away from the end of this 365 program. 165 photos is a good milestone, and so far, I am happy with some of the pics I have taken. Others not so much. This week, I must say I’ve taken some great forest shots. I think the first one I took last Monday, of the skateboarder in the forest, is my favorite photo-wise. However, my amazing grandson being promoted to high school is my sentimental favorite.
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It’s not often that you see a skateboarder riding through the forest, but that’s what I witnessed today. He was kind enough to provide me with a focal point for my shot. I had come to this location to capture the various shades of light in the forest, and he just happened to come along.
I went out for a short photo walk today. I found this gorgeous tree that was completely pink a week ago. Now, it’s just a patch. I saw some other things, but I will return another day when I need something different. I’m just glad I live in such a beautiful and scenic place like Trilogy at Redmond Ridge.
Today was a special day that feels like it arrived far too soon. Fourteen years ago this month, I had a four-month-old grandson, and today he graduated from middle school and will be a freshman in high school next fall. I am incredibly close to Mason—we bonded when he was just a toddler and I took care of him—and I have to admit I shed a tear and got a little choked up when this almost-as-tall-as-me young man, who is now my nearly adult grandson, led his class into the promotion ceremony. Words truly cannot describe how proud I am of him and how much I love him.
Around 3:45 this afternoon, I heard a robin going crazy singing. So, I grabbed my camera and went outside. I took a few photos of him perched on top of our neighbor’s roof. I told Kathleen that I didn’t think I had gotten a decent photo from the bunch I had taken. Then, I captured a bunch of Keeleys and thought I would share a weekly Keeley today. However, when I tried to transfer them to my Mac, I loved the whole silhouette idea. I hope you do too.
The jewel of Redmond has to be Marymoor Park. It’s a county park that spans 640 acres with miles of trails, a river, a lake on its edge, as well as an off-leash dog park, summer concerts, a large number of ballfields, and one lonely windmill. So here’s a photo of that windmill with the Sammamish River in the foreground. By the way, after a week of summer weather, we have settled into what we here in the Puget Sound area call “June Gloom.”
In my quest to get more out of shots taken with my iPhone 16, I decided to try Apple’s version of RAW. It works quite well with Photoshop’s Camera RAW plug-in, but you need to export it instead of simply dragging it out of Photos. Overall, I was able to work with it effectively.
Some of the other photographers I’ve been doing this 365 with have hired models, and I recently watched a Kelby One class on travel photography that advocated hiring a model for certain types of shoots. Today, I needed a model, and fortunately, I have one living in my house. With a little encouragement, she sat in our shade garden and posed for me. Plus, she works cheap—about seven treats.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. —Aaron Siskind
