Street cockfight

Cuba

Many more pictures to come...I just returned from two amazing weeks of photographing in Cuba...

windows

Football practice

Vegan demonstration

Volunteering my services for Seattle's Action for Animals... A great group with a great cause... These ladies braved a February afternoon to be in downtown Seattle in their underlings to spread the vegan love on Valentine's Day.

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Washington State Democratic Caucus

Democracy at its finest. Caucusing is weird, unorganized and raw democracy. It's fun and frustrating at the same time.



(above) Waiting in line in a church basement.

(above) Picking names out of a beanie to decide who are the delegates, and who gets to be an alternate.

(above) Of the six volunteer delegates, these three happened to have their names picked to be alternates, hence the celebration.


(above) Homemade signs directing caucus-goers.

Waiting for Obama to arrive

Trying to catch a glimpse of the rock star.

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.