Happy to post these photos from Allie & Derek’s Spokane open house. They were married the week before in Utah & traveled back up to Washington to have an open house at Allie’s parents house & invited me over to take some portraits before the celebration got underway.

Special thanks to the neighborhood kids who interrupted their birthday party to walk through my photo (several times) as I laid down in the middle of the road for the shot. Extra special thanks to Allie & Derek for trusting me enough to stand in the middle of the road as cars drove by us.

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Last night we had our Inland NW Photographers Assembly (INPA) meeting where it’s always nice to talk to people who enjoy the minutiae  of photography as much as I do. Afterward a few of us headed  in to downtown Spokane for a photo safari. We started taking pictures of the normal downtown things (hence the trash can hand warming shot). We were across the street from the bus depot and I saw some interesting people hanging out so I grabbed Shane Savage (who volunteered to be my voice activated light stand) and headed over there to make some portraits.

LIke my business card says, I shoot people. I really enjoy the interactions with people, asking strangers if I can make a portrait of them is a lot of fun for me. When the results are great, I enjoy it all the better.

I wasn’t sure what I had but when I got them on the computer I was really pleased with how they turned out. Hopefully you’ll think so too.

Big thanks to Shane, Jon, Lacey, & Tyson for the invite and a really fun evening

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P.S. The officer was fine with us taking pictures, even of him, and didn’t try to stop us at all. He and his partner even did some joking around with us.

#9: Found Rothko.

This photo’s colors, textures and composition reminded me of the work of one of my favorite painters, Mark Rothko. I’ve added a photo of a Rothko painting (on the right) to illustrate why I see similarities.

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