The Kora Band
Share 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 [...]
Seattle Wedding Photography at the Skansonia Wedding of Heidi and Troy
Share 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. [...]
Seattle Wedding Photography of Tom and Lisa’s Wedding
Share 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 [...]
Ask The Ages | Group Portrait Photography
Share 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 [...]
Seattle Children Portraits | Ema
Share 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 [...]
Panoramic Landscapes | Urban Spaces
Share 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 [...]
Garfield High School Jazz Band Wins Lincoln Center’s 15th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition
Share 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 [...]
Panorama Prague Bridge
Share 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.
Seattle Portrait Photography | Walter @ 10 Months
Share It has been seven months since I last photographed Walter and he has done some real growing. His personality is rapidly developing as well. He is now an engaging portrait subject now. Look at those eyes. Photography by Seattle photographer Daniel Sheehan covering jazz performances, creating portrait photography for publications and a Seattle Wedding [...]
Wedding Photography At The Seattle Space Needle | Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Share Sugar Magno and Chris Olivar were married on a Friday night in August at The Seattle Space Needle. It was a wonderful evening on a very special date at a Seattle landmark high above Seattle Center, the location of the World’s Fair in 1962. The Space Needle is 605 feet high and when it [...]
Portrait of Jessica Lurie
Share While backing up some folders I came across this picture of Jessica Lurie. I photographed Jessica Lurie in an alley in Pioneer Square here in Seattle, a few years ago just before she packed up and moved to Brooklyn, New York. I had previously photographed her with her group Living Daylights and I have [...]
Seattle Skyline with Space Needle Panorama
Share Queen Anne Hill in Seattle has a wonderful vista in the evening light. Had a recent request for a skyline of Seattle panorama and found this one on file from a couple of years ago. It was after the hour when you can still see a clear glimpse of Mt Rainier in the distance [...]
Mount Rainier Panorama Photography
Share Mount Rainier is a large active stratovolcano about 50 miles southeast of Seattle. It towers over the Cascade Range as the most prominent mountain in the contiguous United States at 14,411 feet, and the highest mountain in Washington and the Cascade Range. The mountain and the surrounding area are protected within Mount Rainier National [...]
Seattle Wedding Photography On The Skansonia
Share Evin Morris and Van Dang were married on July 2nd on board the lovely Skansonia Ferry on the north shore of Lake Union. It was a perfect day although it was predicted to be hot, and some areas around Seattle were close to 90F degrees, on board the Skansonia it was pleasant with a [...]
Poet Jorn Ake
Share Monday night the poet Jorn Ake was in town giving a reading from his latest book at The Elliott Bay Book Company in their new Capital Hill location. it was the first time I had visited Seattle’s legendary independent bookstore new location and was impressed that they very much kept the spirit of the [...]
Earth Day
Share The most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth created to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer of our planet. Much of the information contained in this [...]
Ingrid Laubrock
Share Ingrid Laubrock playing with KRIS DAVIS’S STONE TRIO at Tulas as part of the 2009 Earshot Jazz Festival. Ingrid is a jazz saxophone player (alto, soprano, tenor, and baritone saxes) from Germany who is based in London, England. She is a member of the F-IRE Collective. In 1998, she released her first solo album, [...]
Salumi | Salumi Artisan Cured Meats by Armando Batali
Share On another photography assignment for the New York Times I was sent to photograph Armando Batali at Salumi his restaurant and meat processing plant place near Pioneer Square. He is holding some of his signature salumi in this first photo it is a leg of lamb that he cured for Lamb “Prosciutto” in the aging [...]
Cascadia Restaurant
ShareAn assignment came in from the New York Times to photograph a number of restaurants in Seattle that served what the food writer Mark Bittman considerd the “best place to eat salmon in Seattle”. One of the places I went was Cascadia. Chef Kerry Sear first made a name for himself in Seattle at the [...]
Robert Shiller | Portrait
Share Robert Shiller, American economist, academic, and best-selling author was in town a little while ago and I was assigned to make a portrait of him. Shiller is the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a Fellow at the Yale International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management. But perhaps [...]
Cannabis Crusader | Editorial Portrait
Share For an assignment for The Chronicle of Higher Education last week I photographed Sunil K. Aggarwal, above, who is in his final year of an M.D.-Ph.D. program at the University of Washington. They were running an article on him because of his efforts to convince the American Medical Association to help get marijuana reclassified [...]
Tomasz Stanko
Share Tomasz Stanko performed Monday night at the Triple Door as Earshot Jazz Spring Series rolls on. Tomasz Stanko and his quartet, featuring pianist Alexi Tuomarila, drummer Olavi Louhivuori, Anders Christensen on bass, and Jakob Bro, on guitar, put on a cool, mesmerizing and memorable performance. Playing smouldering Slavic soul music with a grainy-toned trumpet, [...]
Wayne Horvitz & Briggan Krauss
Share At The Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center Thursday night, Wayne Horvitz, Briggan Krauss, and Lê Quan Ninh perform as the Earshot Jazz Spring Series continues strong. Keyboardist Wayne Horvitz, tenor saxophonist Briggan Krauss, and percussionist Lê Quan Ninh, made up a diverse and crackling trio. Their set sparked and crackled with energy [...]