Cowboy lost in the city

University of Washington

BMX

Darn whipper snappers with their baggy jeans and no helmets and the hippity hop music.

Tent City

Kristen, who lives in Tent City 4, a homeless encampment in Kirkland, WA., looks through the day's new donations of clothing and other goods.

Skateboarder

Karaoke

Monkey Pub - U District, Seattle

Posterize

What does this word mean, you ask? Look at the sequence and try to use it in a sentence.

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Say it with me now, "Ronny Turiaf got posterized by Nick Collison."

The third image would be a good one to hang on the wall.

Click this to see my gallery from the Sonics loss to the Lakers on Monday.
http://ryderpictures.com/sonicslakers/sonicslakers.htm

Kobe Bryant scored a season high 48 points and hit the winning jumper to beat the Sonics in overtime, 121-123.

Quite a night for my first NBA shoot.

New street shots, black n white

Thanks for looking.

From the vault - Seahawks preseason vs Vikings

Make sure to click to see em big, esp. this first one...

Let's go Hawks.

From the vault

Kirkland Courier-Reporter today

There are five photos of mine for a couple different stories in the Kirkland Courier-Reporter today...check em out...the above shots weren't published but are from one of the stories...click on them for a gallery of 20 photos from the assignment.

Street photography, shot today

Bellevue, WA. Click on 'em to see a large version. Thanks for looking.

Schweitzer Mountain Resort

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I spent a week skiing and shooting at Schweitzer Mtn, Idaho and had a blast. There was a ton of new snow and this guy had been getting powder shots all morning...



Then the fog set in...



the lunch crowd...


some sun...


more fog...

a crazed skier...


a little freestyle action...


zipping under the chair....
Thanks for looking.

Good pictures...out of context?

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I noticed some nice lighting at the Barack Obama event the other night, so I made these two pictures during the down time waiting for Obama to take the stage. I was looking for pictures that told the story of his visit, and didn't include these in my edit that I posted online, but now I think they might work...they make me think of Obama trying to cash in on contributions from an elusive younger generation of liberal Seattle-type folks....young, white, who have money, and are sort of a shadowy presence in the presidential race, or in politics in general for that matter (like most young people in my opinion)....so who are they and what do they look like? These pictures raise questions, which I like a lot. It's good for a photojournalist to tell stories, but it's good to raise some questions in there as well...and I think part of the story is the questions...in this case...

Abstract photo

Here's an example of why I usually don't try to explain photos to people; I just show them. When you think 'photo of a jersey barrier on the freeway' it sounds pretty lame. But I think this turned out better than lame...possibly even good...? Dunno, but it's unique anyways...

Be sure to click on the photo to see it large.

Some crazy photoshop work

I never mess with photos in photoshop in unethical ways...I only tone them slightly and crop...but here's a random flyer that I made when I was bored a while back...thought I'd play with those parts of photoshop that I never get to use...

Looking at it now it's a little too 'military' for my taste anymore...but at the time that's the style I was going for...cuz you know, now I'm into the whole 'not bombing people' style...

Some random photos

These haven't seen the light of day...what do you think of 'em? The last two - I can't tell which one is better, bird or no bird.

Seattle Marathon

This was a fun shoot, although the picture above is one of the only actually creative shots I was able to take. I mostly just sat in a camping chair, sipping some hot tea and shooting hundreds of close-up mug shots of the runners. Then they get to buy prints of them if they want. Before the the race began, I shot some of the runners warming up in the near freezing air at like 6:30am. I hate getting up this early but once I'm up, I'm always happy and there are always good pictures to be made. This seems to always be true...maybe that's only because I'm never up that early so early morning time just seems to hold more wonder for me...I'm just seeing early morning stuff that I don't usually see...It's like traveling somewhere that you usually don't go. It's always good to change up the routine and find something new. For me, that's what photography is all about.

Pendleton Round-Up

Nothing says 'America' like going to the rodeo, and the finals of the Pendleton Round-Up is the place to be if you want to see some good rodeo action. I had a great time meeting some really nice folks last weekend in Pendleton, Oregon and I went home with some photos that I am very happy with. Take a look by clicking here.

Another Story in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Check out today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer front page for a photo of mine:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/frontpage/SPI-20070901-A-001.pdf