Wedding Panorama at DeLILLE CELLARS
Ann Krembs and Mark Casey had a DeLille Cellars Wedding, in Woodenville last summer. DeLILLE CELLARS is one of my favorite place for an outdoor wedding and one of the reasons is this pond which reflects very nicely when people stand alongside it. This is what we did right after Ann and Mark’s wedding ceremony. Other features of [...]
Farm Kitchen Wedding of Jennifer and Polachai
Jennifer and Polachi Sakchalathorn were married on the first Saturday in September at the beautiful orchard at the Farm Kitchen, an 18-acre organic farm near Poulsbo. Jennifer and Polachai were lucky that the weather was warm and sunny and so were the smiles. Polachai is from Thailand, known to travelers to Southeast Asia as the Land of Smiles. East Meets [...]
Children’s Portraits | Harper Turns Two
I photographed Molly 2 years ago when she was 9 months pregnant on a Sunday afternoon.Two days later baby Harper popped out of the belly and into the world. Although I have photographed her a couple of times I wanted to post an update now that she just turned two. Harper loves playing “Where’s the baby” with [...]
Salish Lodge Wedding Preview
Kristine and Steve had a lovely intimate wedding with a small number of family and friends in attendance at Snoqualmie Falls and Salish Lodge & Spa, one of the most romantic destination wedding locations in the Seattle area It was a late afternoon wedding on a terrace overlooking the Falls and although there had been some grey skies mid day [...]
Campbell Family Portrait
I had a recent assignment to photograph Greg Campbell and his family. We met at Gasworks park which gave us a variety of backdrops to choose from.
Bill Anschell Trio
Bill Anschell at Tula’s in the last performance of the Earshot Jazz Festival. Earshot Jazz Festival 2011 presented the Bill Anschell Trio as its last performance on Sunday Nov 9th. closing out the three week long annual festival.Nearly 10 years have passed since Seattle native Bill Anschell returned to the Emerald City after spending 25 years studying, composing [...]
San Francisco Wedding Photography Panoramic Portrait at City Hall
After the ceremony of Denise Lee and Yong Yeh’s wedding in August, we all assembled on the front steps of San Francisco City Hall which turned out to be a great place for the wedding panoramic portrait. This is a somewhat cropped version, in the actual print there is a little more on either side of this picture.These [...]
Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly Quintet at Tula’s in the last week of the Earshot Jazz Festival. Earshot Jazz Festival 2011 presented the 19-year-old jazz wonder, saxophonist/vocalist Grace Kelly who “plays with intelligence, wit, and feeling,” says one of her many fans, Wynton Marsalis. Just five years ago at the age of 14, Grace Kelly garnered the first of her ASCAP Foundation [...]
Seattle City Councilman Tim Burgess Wins 2nd Term
Seattle City Councilman Tim Burgess, above, being interviewed by a local TV station on Election night, outside City Councilwoman Sally Clark‘s election party at Merchant’s Cafe. Burgess was commenting on his re- election victory and the passing with a strong margin of the Families and Education Levy which he supported. I had an excellent time yesterday on election [...]
Skansonia Wedding Photography Jesse and Meghan
Jesse Dungan and Meghan Ahearn and all of their friends took a leap of joy after their wedding ceremony on the rear deck of the MV Skansonia on Lake Union June 5th. What great jumpers. Another beautiful spring evening in June, better than some of the days we are having this July. Meghan and Jesse were [...]
The Cove, Normandy Park Wedding of Kirstin and Jason
Chacos are a brand of sandals that the majority of Peace Corps volunteers wear partly because they get a pro discount and partly because the guarantee them for life. At least this was the story Kristin and Jason told me. Kirsten Mielke and Jason Hervin show off their Chaco sandals above.They were married the last weekend [...]
BLUE CRANES at the Earshot Jazz Festival
The Portland based group Blue Cranes performed with a string section at the Tractor Tavern Tuesday night in the third week of the Earshot Jazz Festival. Part of the recent movement of jazz musicians to bring an indie-rock ethos to their post-bop chops and harmonic sensibilities (think a West Coast version of the Bad Plus), [...]
Novelty Hill-Januik Winery Wedding of Sarah & Patrick
The pies above were all home made and were wonderful. A view of the the visually stunning courtyard of the Novelty Hill – Januik Winery in Woodinville, Washington in the rain on August 7th just as Patrick Danaher and Sarah Baxter were starting to get ready for their wedding. There was hope early on that [...]
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | Jazz Photography
The amazing music of Ryuichi Sakamoto was wonderful in concert Saturday night at the Moore Theatre as the Earshot Jazz Festival presented along with the Seattle Theatre Group the Japanese musician celebrating his recent double-CD release on Decca label. Seattle is one of only ten cities Sakamoto has selected for his rare North American tour. [...]
Eyeshot Jazz Photography DAFNIS PRIETO PROVERB TRIO
Just got back from THE CROCODILE where Dafnis Prieto Proverb Trio performed and with Cuong Vu / Andrew D’Angelo: Agogic doing the opening set. What a night. It is late so I will post a brief and add more on Tuesday. When the 25 year old Cuban born percussionist Dafnis Prieto’s arrived on the New [...]
Bill Frisell Beautiful Dreamers | Jazz Photography from Earshot Jazz Festival
What a treat to see Bill Frisell play again in Seattle with Eyvind Kang and Rudy Royston as the Earshot Jazz Festival heads for its last 4 days. In the Beautiful Dreamers trio, Frisell and violist Eyvind Kang join arms with drummer Rudy Royston to take a rustic, wind-blown repertoire (Blind Willie Johnson’s “Nobody’s Fault” [...]
The Kora Band
Something new on the jazz scene is the The Kora Band , in a recent performance at Tula’s, Thursday Sept 9th. They are pianist Andrew Oliver, Brady Millard-Kish, bass, Kane Mathis, kora and guitar, Chad McCullough, trumpet and Mark DiFlorio, drums and percussion. The 21-string harp played largely by the Mandinka people of West Africa is [...]
Seattle Wedding Photography at the Skansonia Wedding of Heidi and Troy
Troy Wadsworth and Heidi Schumacher were married on May 23rd on board the historic Skansonia Ferry on the north shore of Lake Union in Seattle. It was a perfect day weather wise considering how cool it turned later on in the month and throughout June. Here are some of the highlights from the wedding. Heidi [...]
Seattle Wedding Photography of Tom and Lisa’s Wedding
Lisa Chick wrote a couple of days ago to remind me that she and Tom Marriott were married 4 years ago this week and she was looking forward to seeing the pictures and enjoying the slideshow again on their anniversary. She is planning to have her wedding album ready for their 5th anniversary. Since I was [...]
Ask The Ages | Group Portrait Photography
Brian Heaney has a new group, Ask The Ages, that he wanted me to photograph so we made a series of informal individual and group portraits outside his house where the jazz group were rehearsing the other day for an upcoming concert on Thursday, July 15, 2010 7:00pm – 8:30pm, at Egan’s Ballard Jam House, [...]
Seattle Children Portraits | Ema
It has been a while since I made a portrait of Ema and she looks quite different from the last time. We were out on a boat in Lake Union and I made some like the one below, of Ema with her sister Claire and friend Yasmina visiting from Europe. Then Ema went down below [...]
Panoramic Landscapes | Urban Spaces
I love this view of Times Square from the air. Later on I will publish a panorama I made at ground level in Times Square. Other pictures were taken in Seattle, Paris and Prague. Today is the first day of June and the opening of an exhibition of a dozen panoramic urban landscapes at SRG [...]
Garfield High School Jazz Band Wins Lincoln Center’s 15th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition
Seattle’s Garfield High School, under the direction of Clarence Acox, took top honors on Monday, May 10th in New York at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 15th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival. The school, based in Seattle’s historic Central District, made competition history, becoming the first band ever to win the competition [...]
Panorama Prague Bridge
The view of Prague from under one of the many bridges in the city. Photograph by Seattle Photographer Daniel Sheehan specializing in photojournalism, portraits and photography for publications and corporations.