Category Archives: Photos

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In the Kitchen with Tom…

..Tom Douglas that is. Don’t know who Tom Douglas is?

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Working with What You’re Given: Bright Sun for Portraits

I was probably one of very few people in Seattle who was not happy when the sun shone brightly on this past President’s Day, an unusually mild February day. I had been concerned about rain, […]

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Sending & Receiving: What is Being ‘Lost in the Mail’ Today?

Wow, the world has changed. And people growing up in the past 10 years don’t even know what has been left behind.

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The Disappearance of an Icon: The Historic Kalakala, an Art-Deco Boat and Piece of Maritime History

If you live in Seattle you may have heard of the Kalakala. It’s been in the news the past few weeks because it has finally been demolished, after various attempts to save it over the […]

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How Does a Photo Make You Feel?

(Does a photograph make you feel?) I recently spent a lot of time wading through hundreds (more likely thousands) of family photos pieced together in various scrapbooks that I had inherited from my parents. What […]

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