long exposure

Week 2, January 12-18, 2025 – Christmas in Chicago

January 18th, 2025

Tagged 2024, 2024 Christmas Light Trails, 24.12.08, 24.12.29, 28-200 f2.8-5.6, 701 N Michigan Avenue, 875 North Michigan Ave., A7r3, abstract, Allerton Hotel, auto light trails, Chicago, Chicago IL, Chicago light trails, Chicago Water Tower, Christmas decorations, Christmas light trails, Christmas Lights, Christmas tree, compilation, composite image, damp, Dec23, Dec24, Dec24 Photo Walk, December, doors, front door, gilded, holiday, hope, ice, ice skates, ice skating, John Hancock Building, John Hancock Tower, light trails, lights, Lincoln Park Zoo, Lincoln Park Zoo Christmas lights, long exposure, marble, Michigan Avenue, Millenium Park, public sign, puddle, rain, reflection, skaters, skating, Sony, The Water Tower, The Wrigley Building, toy soldiers, traffic light trails, tree, Tribune Tower, water tower, Week 2 2025, WEEKS, WEEKS 2025, wet, windows, Wrigley Building, Wrigley Tower

“River Delta or Tree”

January 13th, 2025

Tagged 2024, 2024 Christmas Light Trails, 24.12.08, 28-200 f2.8-5.6, A7r3, abstract, Chicago IL, Christmas light trails, Christmas Lights, compilation, Dec23, December, light trails, lights, Lincoln Park Zoo, Lincoln Park Zoo Christmas lights, long exposure, Sony, Week 2 2025

open to interpretation

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When I attended the Lincoln Park Zoo Holiday Lights exhibit, I wanted to create something more than a record of someone else’s artwork. In the past, I have captured images that combined the lights with camera motion, and I wanted to take what I have learned in the past and apply it to this year’s visit. This abstracted tree gave me the opportunity to see the image as something more than “a tree wrapped in green lights”.

“Holiday Memories”

January 12th, 2025

Tagged 2024, 24.12.08, 28-200 f2.8-5.6, A7r3, Chicago, Chicago IL, Christmas tree, Dec24, December, ice, ice skates, ice skating, lights, long exposure, Millenium Park, skaters, skating, Sony, tree, Week 2 2025

holiday excitement

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There’s something magical about the hustle and bustle of early December. The busyness but excitement for the celebrations to come; spending time with family, fewer work obligations, and parties. Watching the joy of the people skating in Millennium Park still brings a smile over a month later.

Week 52, December 29, 2024 – January 4, 2025 – Quintessential Seattle

January 4th, 2025

Tagged 17-28mm f2.8, 2024, 24.10.05, 24.10.06, 24.10.07, 24.10.08, 28-200 f2.8-5.6, A7r3, abstract architecture, alley, architecture, Bainbridge Island, bay, beach, bee, blossom, boat, boats, buildings, city, clouds, dock, Eagle Harbor, Elliot Bay, ferris wheel, ferry, flag, floating, flower, Frank Ghery, insect, lake, Lake Union, light trails, long exposure, moon, Museum of Pop Culture, neon lights, ocean, Oct24, October, pier, Pier 57, planet, Puget Sound, reflection, ripples, Seattle Great Wheel, Seattle Space Needle, Seattle Trip Oct24, Seattle WA, ship, ships, sky, skyline, Sony, stairs, steam ship, sunlight, sunset, Tacoma Ferry, TOP 3, TOP 3 ARCHITECTURE, tourist, trees, University Street, Venus, Virginia V ship, walking, Washington State Ferries, water, waves, Week 52 2024, WEEKS, WEEKS 2024, WEEKS 2025, wharf, white, wooden ship

“Sunset Lights”

January 1st, 2025

Tagged 2024, 24.10.06, 28-200 f2.8-5.6, A7r3, bay, Elliot Bay, ferris wheel, lake, light trails, long exposure, moon, ocean, Oct24, October, pier, planet, Puget Sound, Seattle Great Wheel, Seattle Trip Oct24, Seattle WA, Sony, sunset, TOP 3, TOP 3 ARCHITECTURE, Venus, water, Week 52 2024

serendipity

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This might be my most serendipitous shot from our Seattle trip in October. Sarah and I were walking back to our VRBO that evening; Sarah wanted to look at a chocolate shop, but as we passed Union Street, the moon caught my eye. My feet were tired and I didn’t have my tripod with me, so this was taken with my Sony propped on top of a circular railing over the 3 story drop onto Post Alley. I probably took more than a dozen photos in my attempt to capture the scene; the ferris wheel would stop rotating, someone else would bump the railing, or I wasn’t standing perfectly still … but in the end I captured this 4 second exposure and only later discovered that it included Venus!

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