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New York, NY, September 2012

admin — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 05:32:08 +0000

Another year, another trip to New York City! I got to visit a few new parts of the city, including the Upper West Side and Brooklyn, and focused on non-touristy subjects. The colors, textures, and scenes you can find are amazing. Enjoy…

40th Floor View of Midtown.

Wet Paint!

Violinist.

Produce

You Are Here

Times Square Stop

Brooklyn Stairs

Red.

Cloud Porn.

Beautiful Central Park Day.

Pizza!

Amsterdam Ave.

Columbia Campus.

Barnard.

Architectural Abstraction.

Trash.

Don't walk.

Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine

I'm a Dreamer.

Sound Recommendation.

Reflection.

Apartments at Central Park West.

Imagine.

Bark Textures.

Alice in Wonderland.

Seattle, WA, September 2011

admin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:00:50 +0000

Mostly Seattle, anyway! This trip was tacked on to the end of the trip to Washington, DC, and was done so for the sole purpose of taking my 80 year old grandma skydiving*. Oh, and it didn’t hurt that Bumbershoot was happening around the same time and had some bands on the lineup that I really wanted to see. (You can see what I thought of that over at juneaurocks.com!)

The first few photos below were taken during the drive to Portland, OR, and ultimately, Molalla, OR, home of Skydive Oregon, and the rest were taken in downtown Seattle. As you can see, it was sunny. It is hard to beat the Pacific Northwest when the sunshine hits and it warms up – these kind of days make up for so many gray, rainy days.

Enjoy!

Amber waves of grain?

Hit the road.

My heroes.

Brick Post Office

Silos

Space Needle and EMP

Funhouse?

MarchFourth Marching Band

Hugs and the Rotary Grocery

Holy mackerel!

Flying fish.

Pike Place

They put the edible in incredible!

Post Alley

There is no parking for past or present residents - sorry.

Westin Towers

Urban Waterfall

Palace Kitchen

Broken Social Scene

Rocking out

Neon

Last day...

Purple durple

Spicy scallop and shrimp ceviche. OH YEAH.

Western Ave

The fountain and the Space Needle. I can now say I have run through the fountain!

The Fremont Troll

Washington, DC, August 2011

admin — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:24:47 +0000

If you ever have the urge to be humbled beyond words, just head to our nation’s capital and take in as many memorials and monuments as you can. The scope and sheer size of them, combined with the deep meaning and everything they symbolize, will really bring into perspective everything that’s been done in our country’s history.

This was my second trip to DC, but the first time I really got to see the sights and have any amount of time to really feel the emotions these monuments command. I need to go back. I have a feeling I could spend a week in DC and not cover everything I want to, which is a good thing because that’s a pretty good excuse to keep going back, as if one is really necessary!

(Also… you’ll notice a photo of a veal chop below. That was taken inside Filomena Ristorante, right in Georgetown. Amazing food, amazing atmosphere, amazing amazing amazing. Did I say amazing?)

US Capitol

Clock inside Union Station.

Arches & Statues

Trains... Tickets

Atrium in Union Station.

Intricate ceiling.

Umbrella

DC sunset.

Navigating.

The... building.

Glassy skies.

Interesting fact!

Excellent veal parmigiana at Filomena.

Georgetown Park.

Iwo Jima memorial.

Capitol dome and Washington monument.

Jefferson Memorial

The steps to the Jefferson Memorial

Looks like the moon... or a UFO.

TJ was a tall guy.

Washington Monument via Jefferson Memorial.

At the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial.

World War II Memorial

Alaska represented at the WWII Memorial.

DC intersection.

The US Treasury building.

1600 Pennsylvania Ave

Bank of America

Um.. yeah.

Outside Lands @ San Francisco, CA, August 2011

admin — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:15:23 +0000

I attended the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco for the second time this past week. What a blast! So many great bands and TONS of people. There’s a full review over at juneaurocks.com with some video and more photos. I’ll let the photos do the talking here…

Boats and boats.

Foster the People audience.

The Shins

Skull candy?

You see everything in San Francisco... A robot? Really?

OK Go rocking out.

People of all ages love Outside Lands!

Arctic Monkeys

The Black Keys killed it!

Huge crowd of festival goers.

Muse

Muse had an awesome stage setup... as usual.

Oooooh. Lasers!

More lasers!

The Decemberists

Arcade Fire in red.

Arcade Fire

Carpet of beer cups...

Boats and the Golden Gate bridge.

Row row row your boat!

To the sky.

Fisherman

These gulls were all aggro. Too many steroids.

Harbor Princess

Sailboat and Alcatraz

Barbershop Quartet

Mmmmmmm.

Kona, HI, January 2011

admin — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:39:49 +0000

I’m going to keep this short: if you’ve never been to Hawaii, go. All the good things you’ve ever heard about it are true. Here’s proof.

Koi Koi

Clipped wings

Pinks and purples

Palms in the morning

Good day to be on the water

Palms in the evening

Ninja kitty

The view

Respite

Sea turtle rest

Dusky

Sunset in Paradise

Eagerly Awaiting

Yellow

Trashy Gecko

Ol Blue Chair

Holy Rock

Surf & Sunset

Rushing Surf

Pancho & Leftys

What do you DO with a mermaid when you catch one?

I see you

Urchin

Sunshine and Clouds.

Flutterby

Coachella @ Indio, CA, April 2010

admin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:53:36 +0000

I attended this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and WOW. People everywhere. 75,000 – 100,000 to be somewhat exact. Amazing to see 2x to 3x the population of Juneau all in one place. The people-watching opportunities were equally amazing – for example, I saw a hula-hooping unicorn, a blue man, and a panda bear. And I hadn’t even had anything to drink. Proof of the blue man can be seen below.

The weather was awesome and my burned shoulders are evidence of that. 90 degrees every day, sunshine, and a nice breeze in the evening.

There were a ton of great bands playing, but I won’t go into too much detail here. I’ve written reviews of the three days at Coachella over on the website for CTRL-ALT-Juneau, my radio show (which you should listen to if you like any of the bands that played at Coachella!). Suffice to say it was a great music festival – enjoy the photos!

Day 1: Wind Farm

Day 1: Giant Origami Crane

Day 1: The Specials

Day 1: Rock Out

Day 1: Them Crooked Vultures

Day 1: LCD Soundsystem

Day 1: Martians

Day 1: Vampire Weekend

Day 1: Jay Z

Day 1: Multicolored Crane

Day 1: Ferris Wheel

Day 2: Blue Man

Day 2: CANADA

Day 2: Tokyo Police Club

Day 2: Giant Wheel Sunset

Day 2: Muse and Lasers

Day 2: Muse and Bright Lights

Day 2: TOO LOUD. WHAT?

Day 2: Fireside Lovin

Day 2: Art

Day 2: Tiny Temples

Day 2: The Dead Weather

Day 3: Desert Flowers

Day 3: Water Crowd and Inflatable Shark

Day 3: Coachella Stage Lineup

Day 3: Evil Crane

Seattle, WA, December 2009

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:26:52 +0000

December 30th, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s 2009 were spent in Seattle, WA, wandering around and enjoying the last little bit of my holiday break before heading back home to Juneau. Seattle is an awesome place for street photography and the Public Market Center at Pike Place is always full of color, patterns, and interesting people. It was definitely a great place to punctuate 2009 and usher in 2010!

Boren and Pike at Night

Pike and Pike

Public Market Center

Pairs of Pears

Brussels Sprouts

Squirrel Butter

Fresh Fish

Apples

Oranges

Navel Oranges

Brussely

Blood Oranges

Welcome Down Under

More Shops

Thank You

Post Alley

Posters

Rainbow and Space Needle

Pink Elephant

Do Not Cross

Reflections

Funhouse

Random Shoes

Happy New Year

No Crossing

Festive Lights

Alley

The Paramount

Heading Home

Tumtum, WA, December 2009

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:21:36 +0000

I spent Christmas with my parents in Tumtum, Washington. It’s a town of about 200 people located 45 minutes northeast of Spokane, WA. Basically, it’s out in the boonies! There’s a lot of land to explore, but being that it was cold out and I wasn’t in a very adventurous mood, I stuck pretty close to the house. It’s amazing being so far away from city lights just how much more of the night sky you can see – this is evident in some of the night shots below.

No Place Like Gnome

Grass at Sunset

The Bird

Sam the Dog

Star Trails

Red Red Red

Red Berry

Red Wheelbarrow

Lavender Stalks

Tum Tum Sunset

Icy

Moon and Clouds

Moon Clouds and Orion

Creepy Chair

Keep Out

Targets

Civic Center Park 360°, Denver, CO, September 2008

admin — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:38:07 +0000

Around we go!

Pacific Northwest, June 2008

admin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:38:04 +0000

The Pacific Northwest is one of my favorite places to vacation – you’ve got mountains, water, beaches… everything!

Snoqualmie Falls

Math Lesson

Flowers, flowers, flowers.

Gypsy band in Newport, OR.

Inverted Jelly

"Calling mother station..."

Flappin' Puffin

Newport Bridge

Yaquina Head Lighthouse Stairs

Yaquina Head Lighthouse

Horses at Sunset

Haystack Rock

Carousel

Pronto Pup!

Barn

Multnomah Falls