Spokane Trip - Ben

I think the most popular photos from our trip to Spokane were the ones taken of our 8 month old nephew, Ben. You can find all of the photos from our trip here but here are a select few.

My favorite..

Spokane Trip - Scenery

As I mentioned in my last post we went to Spokane for some time with Melissa's family and for an early Barbie-tastic (oh yeah I said it) Thanksgiving Dinner.

I only took a few non-Ben (our 8 month old nephew) photos, so let's get them out of the way first. :-)

On Tuesday morning I got up very early and drove to Mt. Spokane hoping to reach the summit shortly before sunrise... I would have made it too, had the last half mile of road been open before 8am (yay for poor planning). Nonetheless, I came out with this photograph a ways below the summit.

Sunrise from Mt. Spokane


On Wednesday night I ventured out to some fields in the Spokane Valley to take some night images, it was a little too cloudy for my taste but I still took a couple.





On Friday afternoon Chris (my brother-in-law) and Tiffany (his sister) drove down to Steptoe Butte to try and catch sunset. There was a strong cold front that passed though the night before so it was pretty cold and VERY windy up at the top (we're talking ~35mph SUSTAINED). There were also light showers passing through right at sunset, so trying to get a shot off that was A - steady, and B - water drop free was very challenging.





This little optical effect was pretty cool. Usually when you see rays of sun you have to be looking TOWARD the sun, but they showed up looking AWAY from the sun (note that they converge toward the horizon as opposed to diverging as seen in the subsequent image).





And finally, sunset.

Update!

I'm a terrible blogger as of late. Here's an update on things.

I've been pretty busy at school with my duties as one of our department's Outreach Coordinators. We've been working on a demonstration video that I will post as soon as it is 100% completed. We've also had several events as of late. Earlier this month I had the opportunity to help set up an exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) depicting the the consequences of sea-level rise both here in Seattle and in other parts of the world. I went as a photographer and published a set on the event here.







I've also been keeping busy flying kites! A fellow kite flier, Jennifer Brown, and I started a new pairs team called VORTEX. So every other Sunday or so I drive out to Ocean Shores and we practice all day. This past weekend we made it through our entire ballet routine for the first time! (not that is was clean) ;-)
I took the first image just after I drove through Aberdeen on my way home. The last three are from last weekend.









On October 14th Melissa and I celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary. Time has really flown by!



I've also been taking some images for the new department website, apparently I'm now the official department photographer. ;-)





I haven't been out to take weather images as often as I'd like but the few times I've been out have been great.



On Monday a beautiful Puget Sound Convergence Zone (PSCZ) set up along the I-90 corridor from Seattle all the way to Snoqualmie Pass. Around 9:30pm I decided I had to go out and see what I could find. I ended up driving all the way up to the Summit at Snoqualmie where it was snowing lightly. I believe it was their first snow of the season. The scary part was the drive up, it was hailing heavily and there were streams of water flowing through the hail that covered the freeway. Let's just say the drive was not for the faint of heart...





On my way back down from the pass I decided to stop at Snoqualmie Falls, it was impressive how much water was flowing over the falls! Getting this particular show took a LOT of patience as spray from the falls kept billowing up and scattering all of the light (which was camera right).



Finally one of my favorite shots from the past few weeks is this one I took in Snoqualmie in a field just north of Centennial Park (where there are ALWAYS elk around.). This is a 4 minute 21 second exposure taken at f/4, ISO 100 and a focal length of 10mm.

Fire & Ice


On Saturday Melissa and I are heading over to Spokane for a week. Chris, Chrissy (Melissa's twin sister), our new nephew Ben and Chris's sister Tiffany are flying up to visit and celebrate an early Thanksgiving. I'm looking forward to the time off with family! Hopefully I'll update this again at least once while we're there. ;-)

Weather Set!

Wow ok so I haven't posted in quite some time!

Today I made a new set for photographs of weather related events. You can find it here.

Here are some of my more recent photos that are in the set:

A Rare Sunrise

I usually don't get up early enough to see the sun rise but on Saturday morning I got up to go to work at 5am only to find out that I had requested the day off! Unfortunately I didn't have time to go grab my gear and drive to Kerry Park, so I just went to Log Boom Park.

Dawn


There was a heron chilling out on the dock too and a guy who was fishing would occasionally throw a small fish to it, what a hard life huh?

Patience


Waiting


Early Bird

Amazing Video from the Station Fire

Thanks Kelly for pointing this out!

reidwolcott.com Launch!

This morning around 2:30am I officially launched www.reidwolcott.com! It's been a long time in the making, I hope you enjoy it.

Waterfront and Gasworks

Last Thursday evening I walked along the Seattle waterfront and then drove over to Gasworks Park where Kelly joined me for some night photography. I didn't have a chance to process these until today. See them all in my photostream or the night photography set.





"Gasworks Startrails II"

Portraits of Melissa

After John & Brittany's wedding Melissa wanted to have a few more photos taken of her. After a few minutes of messing with lighting these are the ones I liked.

John & Brittany's Wedding

This past Saturday was John & Brittany's wedding, it was an epic wedding to say the least. You can see all the photos I took in the "John & Brittany's Wedding" set.