Scott Olinger

The best bowling instructor in Friday Harbor. Scott Olinger, proprietor and operator of Paradise Lanes. Another portrait in the This is Our Town series.

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Blues Man

Mr. Soul. Mr. Blues. My buddy Steve-O under blue lights playin' the blues. Happy birthday Steve!

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Cabinet Man

Here's another shot for my "Our Town" project. This is Mike Lazzari of Watershed Cabinets. Read more about him here.

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Twofer

This is my other favorite photo from our outing to west side yesterday. I like the color on this one better (and Shannon's awesome expression on the one I chose yesterday). So many different variables in doing portrait work huh? Sometimes it's hard to choose the best one, so I chose two this time.

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Shannon

Shannon and I went out to the west side tonight to catch the sunset, have a picnic and play around with the camera and some strobes.

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Tail Lights

Something caught my eye about all these cars lined up in the parking lot. Was it the tail lights? Was it the color? Was it the perspective? I'm not sure but it's my photo for today....

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Jenn Payne

Here's another photo I did for This Is Our Town a few weeks ago. This one ultimately didn't get chosen as the one to put on the site, but I like it so I'm posting it here instead. This is Jennifer Payne in her new store Modern & Fabulous (Modern fashions at fabulous prices) here in Friday Harbor.

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P-51D Mustang

We had a Fly-In air show today in Friday Harbor and I was like a kid in a candy store. I shot a whole lot of photos, but this Mustang takes the cake.

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Guest Photo Day

Every once in a while it's fun to have a guest photographer on the blog, and today it's my good friend Ian Byington of San Juan Update fame. It was a busy busy day for me with work and then a Rumor Mill gig, so I didn't get any photos shot. And besides, I'm pretty vain and it's fun to put up pictures of myself from time to time. This is my band The Tease rockin it up - Steve Cutting on bass (with the baseball cap) Thomas Sandstrom on lead guitar (standing on a chair); me on rhythm guitar (with the shorts and a headband) Tim Lance on lead vocals, and lead cord coiler upper (right behind me), and Conrad on drums (but he's out of the frame to the left).

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Loea

Ah yesterday was a good day. Jenn and her mom let me bring my camera gear into their studio and shoot some portraits of them, and let me tell you - they are so laid back and so cool. Just really great to work with. Even when I spent nearly 30 minutes troubleshooting a technical glitch with my laptop/camera software link, they just kept themselves busy with work they needed to catch up on, and then when I got things working, we had some fun getting some "working" photos of them. Good times. Read more about Jenn and Loea at ThisIsOurTown.com.

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It's Coming Together!

My new project is finally coming together, so I'm pretty stoked. This is Jaime Ellsworth, a local artist and you can read more about her at... well, how about at my new project site: ThisIsOurTown.com!

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Driftwood

Pieces of driftwood rotting on the beach, and some Photoshop filters thrown in just for fun...

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Oxymoron

"Have you any Large Small today? Hmmmm OK, well do you have any Huge Tiny? Alright nevermind, I guess I'll just have the Jumbo Shrimp then."

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The Set Up

I shot quite a few photos today and couldn't narrow it down to just one, so here are 599 of them, one right after another. Unless you have decent sounding computer speakers, you might want to plug in some headphones. This is my band setting up for an outdoor gig yesterday at the Port of Friday Harbor. Oh and another thing - Either click the YouTube link or the Full Screen button  on the bottom of the image above so you can see it larger than that puny little preview window.

Lightning

Wow two nights in a row we've had a massive lightning storm. That is unheard of around here. Even one night is rare. It blew our power out so I'm posting this from my iPhone. But I shot it with my Nikon. >>Edit - Saturday morning and I'm re-posting a larger version of the photo.<<

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Greek Salad

Mmmmm mmmmm good! Shannon made a greek salad today and it rocks! Tomatoes, yellow peppers, red peppers, sweet onions, cucumbers, feta cheese and an olive oil/garlic dressing. Wow!

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The Gadgeteer

My big brother (he's really not all that huge or anything, but he's bigger than me so...), anyway, this is Eric rigging up a camera mount for some on-location video shooting for the movie production we're working on. Just a few more bits to film sometime in the next month or so and we'll be able to share the movie with you. For now, it's just behind the scenes and "the making of" stuff....

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Jonesing

I've been Jonesing to get out on the water this summer; what with such a busy band and work schedule, it's been pretty difficult finding time, but it finally happened, and we couldn't have asked for better weather. Well - I spose we could have, but we didn't... This is late afternoon sun on a cloud, reflecting off the water at the North cove on Jones Island.

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Festival Seating

This is crowd at the Pig War Picnic after the July 4 Parade in Friday Harbor. The One More Time band is playing just out of frame on the right, and my band The Tease played right after them. This is the largest audience I've ever played for, (and the brightest lighting as well). Great fun!

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Independence

Independence Day at Roche Harbor. (this was actually shot the day before, but you get the idea...).

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Gazebo at Roche Harbor

Roche Harbor Resort's restaurant and bar with the gazebo. This is where my band is playing Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week. And along with 2 nights at Herb's last weekend, the Rumor Mill next weekend and the Pig War Picnic on the Fourth, we've had a busy schedule (contributing to my lack of daily photos - I'm hoping to play catch-up soon) and rockin' good times!

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Lavender

Explosion of lavender.

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