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sights from today’s dog walk

sights from today’s old-dog walk and young-dog run

sights from Wednesday’s old-dog walk and young-dog run

sights from today’s old-dog walk and young-dog run

What better way to say “I’m glad you’ve been set free from an Italian prison” than by selling a burger-and-fries combo for the low, low price of $250? Click for high-res photo

What better way to say “I’m glad you’ve been set free from an Italian prison” than by selling a burger-and-fries combo for the low, low price of $250?

Sights from this afternoon’s dog walk.

Sights from this morning’s dog walk.

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Bike race here in Ballard today. I started out shooting long panning exposures, but that’s what I did last time. So I messed around with shooting multiple exposures. In this case, that meant setting my camera to shoot three images and merge them. More of today’s multiple exposures and panning shots below (or here) … Click for high-res photo

Bike race here in Ballard today. I started out shooting long panning exposures, but that’s what I did last time. So I messed around with shooting multiple exposures. In this case, that meant setting my camera to shoot three images and merge them.

More of today’s multiple exposures and panning shots below (or here) …

This morning, while walking the dogs, I had another weird overlap between what I was seeing and what I was listening to. The distorted shadow of the words “Entrance on Ballard Avenue” caught my eye. As I shot the second of three photos showing the shadowed words, the robot voice on my Kindle read me this passage from The Paris Review’s “Art of Nonfiction” interview with Joan Didion: … you get the sense that it’s possible simply to go through life noticing things and writing them down and that this is OK, it’s worth doing. That the seemingly insignificant things that most of us spend our days noticing are really significant, have meaning, and tell us something. Click for high-res photo

This morning, while walking the dogs, I had another weird overlap between what I was seeing and what I was listening to. The distorted shadow of the words “Entrance on Ballard Avenue” caught my eye. As I shot the second of three photos showing the shadowed words, the robot voice on my Kindle read me this passage from The Paris Review’s “Art of Nonfiction” interview with Joan Didion:

… you get the sense that it’s possible simply to go through life noticing things and writing them down and that this is OK, it’s worth doing. That the seemingly insignificant things that most of us spend our days noticing are really significant, have meaning, and tell us something.

Click for high-res photo

sights from this morning’s dog walk