Seattle Freelance Photographer

Odysseus wouldn't have made it

The sirens started early today and they did not let up. I took the eggs out of the fridge to make a late breakfast when I noticed the sirens ramping up. It got to the point that I thought every fire truck and ambulance in the city must be converging

2020

Manifest

I know I’m not alone in wondering this. Can we manifest things? Don’t worry – you are at the SBHOPPER blog. I know I don’t get cosmic very often. I have not dropped acid. I really don’t even know what acid is. LSD? Timothy Leary stuff? I

Photojournalism

Arriving in Bremerton

I started social distancing in early March. Early March of 1980. Kidding, sort of. But in early March, I ramped up my already formidable social distancing habits to COVID-level. And I’ve been kicking myself for it. How can someone want to be a documentary photographer but not be out

Canon FTb COVID

Let it come down

Thank heavens for this cooling rain. Right now I would love to have a balcony or a screened porch. A plane just flew over, and the sound was jarring. I don’t know the stats, so I’ll use blogger stats – the volume of flights has decreased during COVID to

Art COVID

A Quick Walk in Capitol Hill

It was time for some fresh air, so I combined that with a quest for some Wahl clippers. The mop on top of my head needs to go. I struck out at Bartell’s, but I picked up a few things I needed. I liked seeing that most of the

Capitol Hill coronavirus

COVID's Comet and Quarantine Eats

I took a short walk tonight. My belt is telling me that I need to take longer, more frequent walks. I have a mask now (from @thriftchoppe [https://www.instagram.com/thriftchoppe/]), so no excuses. I took my camera. It was nice to shoot some photos. They were pretty lousy

Fujifilm X Series

A Quiet Seattle

I posted the following photo in the previous blog entry post thingy. I keep returning to the photo, though, so I figured I’d give it its own post. I took the photo as I was walking back to Capitol Hill from Pike Place Market. I knew the sliver of

Backstage Pass

Belva at Black Lodge

The first person to ever read tarot for me also fronts a cool band. I think through the trasmutative properties of quantum mechanics that somehow makes me cooler. Belva [https://www.instagram.com/belva_band/] played at Seattle’s Black Lodge last night, and they were great. Bands, if you