This week's images are two that I like a lot, but didn't quite make it into my Photo-a-Day project. They were both taken at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
I like the sense that these two are riding up to fairy-land, with the big umbrellas at the top of the escalator:
These ladies with their huge duffel/suitcases are in Vegas for serious. They ended up going up into the "Spa Tower" at the Bellagio.
I've been so caught up in my Photo a Day project, I've been forgetting my Photo of the Week posts. I've decided to give myself a little latitude, and post a couple, including some that I had to edit out of my daily photos.
This one is from Seattle Center, and the Experience Music Project: 
This one is first in a series of Photos Taken On Dog Walks: 
Finally, they say Ace is the place with the helpful hardware man, but on Bainbridge Island, it's a bear: 
Actually two photos, because I like them both. The second is from my Photo a Day gallery on my website, where I'm posting a single shot from each day. Makes me edit. Makes me shoot. Makes me happy.
Snow in Pioneer Square around 8 am today. Nice to know I can still drive in snow.
I took this shot back in 2005 at the tower on Mt. Constitution, on Orcas Island, and I love the shapes and shadows. I was reminded of it a couple times in the past two weeks, once in the Bainbridge Arts and Crafts gallery, and once by a beautiful photo from an artist at the Ballard Market, who also exhibits at the Wallingford Varsity Inn, whose name I unfortunately no longer remember.
I kept having Caddyshack flashbacks as I watched this little booger pop up, grab some grass, and disappear. Jake thought he almost got him when we walked past later, and I'll not tell him different...
This week we have Alice, seeking to prove that any photo can be improved if you just include a cat in it:
This is Sophie. I've got a total love-hate relationship with this cat. She's gotten me so mad I've injured myself. Believe me, this picture lies.
Well, ok. So maybe not "week". Or at least, not a week on this planet. I will not be discouraged.
I like photos that tell a story, especially when it's one from ordinary life, like this one.
I'm conducting an experiment. On myself. Each week, I'm going to post at least one photo I've worked on recently. Every week. At least one. We'll see how it goes.
One of the things I love about our fishing shack is the abundance of wildlife, and the usually peaceful space it occupies (except, of course on the 4th of July). Sometimes it gets a little racy:
Usually, though it's beautiful. There are deer walking across the harbor at low tide. A seal comes in a few times a year. A family or convocation of otters haul out on our neighbors' docks. Bald eagles soar and dive, with their "entourage" of starlings, crows, finches, and an occasional hummingbird. My favorite, though, is the pair of osprey that nest high up in a cedar tree behind our house. My brother, the avid ornithologist, had been telling me about how osprey and eagles sometimes tangle, and last June, they did just that. In front of my house:
Yes, the eagle is flying upside down. No animals were harmed in the production of this photo.
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