Just Take the Damn Photo

A blog where I talk about photography/videography/writing and news.  I want to encourage people too. 

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Jordon holds his ground against a teep in his fight Saturday night. 

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Excited to be going back to Spokane for another Muay Thai Tournament! 

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More experimenting with colors. I think it turned out well. 

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#photooftheday I’m exploring more with colors in my shoots at the gym. I love critiques. 

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My religion is photography, but my church is the gym. 

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#photooftheday Sorry I haven’t been posting here. I’ll get better at it. For 2020 my resolution was to either take or edit a photo everyday and post it. I usually have “back up” photos just in case I get sick or have a really bad mental health day which hasn’t happened in awhile. 

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When the future meets the past 

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Seattle winter’s are beautiful and all that jazz. I love how the colors turned out in this photo. I’m a huge sucker for colors

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This was just too cool. I should’ve probably had the first guy in focus, but I still love how this photo looks. 

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HA! After messing on photoshop I finally got to do this somewhat okay. I went to capture a fight a couple weeks ago. I really enjoy MMA photography. 

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They’re coming to get you, Barbara.

Night of the Living Dead (1968) dir. George A. Romero

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James Pollard won his fight in 22 second. 

I have a news photography background so since leaving news, I’ve been wanting to be more creative with my photos. I did this by accident since I was playing with an editing app on my phone. I thought this looked really cool and wanted to share it. 

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Miss Dixie has been living on the streets for awhile. I worked in news for a long time so I’m not a big fan of people looking into the camera, but I loved her smile and she was so kind. She was at an event here in Bremerton called “Sleep Out”. People slept out in the streets just like her to help raise awareness about the homelessness problem in Bremerton, Washington. Kitsap Rescue Mission had to close down their building because they don’t have the money to update it right now. 

As I mentioned before, I used to work in TV news and at a big newspaper (The Chicago Sun-Times). I’ve covered events like “Sleep Out” with my camera a lot. At the moment, I’m not working in news. I’ve gone back and forth on my feelings of returning to a newsroom. 

I got invited to this event Friday Night to the “Sleep Out”. I watched as a TV news photographer take a few shots of the crowd and leave. I found myself annoyed and frustrated with him because he didn’t talk to anyone, but I also understood why. He probably just wanted to get back to the station and he’s been to a hundred types of events. It’s so easy to get numbed out to these events. It’s easier to get numbed out to the tragedy of it.  

I’m done ranting. (For now). It’s just something I’ve been thinking about this weekend. I’ll be posting more photos this weekend.