This year was the 50th anniversary of the Seattle pride parade and there was an absolutely huge turnout in the crowd but also in the length of the parade – massive. Parades are challenging for me. I enjoy myself the most when I work the edges of the event as opposed to photographing the parade […]
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In Chinese tradition, the cabbage represents wealth and prosperity. During Lunar New Year, it’s customary for the lion dancers to visit numerous local businesses to perform “cai qing,” which translates to “plucking the green.” Their rhythmic and acrobatic dance from business to business hunting for the prosperous cabbage, followed by a dragon, drums, firecrackers, and
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As a good friend of mine put it (while photographing the event completely sober) “I felt like a small boat of sobriety floating in a sea of drunkenness.” SantaCon in Seattle, is not really a convention – not even a little bit. It’s a bit of a festive bar crawl where people dress up in
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As fair season is winding down I find myself feeling a bit like it’s the temporary pause on a meaningful project that has taken me all over the western part of Washington. This isn’t the end of my work on the project – I see at least another year of collecting images. Until then, I
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In mid June in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle is the Solstice parade. This annual event brings large crowds that line the the mile or so stretch of street of the parade route. I have photographed the parade before, but only from the side of the street – trying to push my way through the
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The beautiful weather on the weekend of May 20-21 brought out a large crowd to University Ave (which is commonly called The Ave) for the U-District Street Fair. The street fair is a celebration of community, art and music and is packed into about 8 city blocks. Saturday was much warmer and sunnier and felt
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On the opening weekend of the Washington Spring Fair in Puyallup, I walked around the prep area behind the rodeo grandstand, clutching my camera and tucking a notepad into my pocket. Captivated by the sight of various cars and their teams of mechanics, I immediately began photographing the chaotic scene. It only took a couple
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