The Happy Couple I don't do weddings... but, will on occasion, for a very select few, as for weddings that are intimate and simple... this week's #ThrowbackThursday is from the very first one that I did back in 2002 #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #WeddingPhotography

Morning Sun Lit Many a morning, been meaning to take a shot of this... the morning sun streaming into my bathroom window... just liking how it caught the left side of my face, eye, illuminating it... So, did this morning #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #SelfPortraiture #LightAndShadow

Topographical Art I - IV Triple the shots I took on my day-trip, all occurring in the air to and from to those taken whilst actually at the destination Anyways... Closing out with agricultural contours art of my home state #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #FlyByShooting #AerialPhotography

- Naturally Au Naturel - Above The Pier - Three Geese - Mount Rainier Not gonna lie, main reason I chose Seattle for my latest day-trip, was so I could enjoy to freely, legally, be nude... these all were taken thusly, in/from Lake Washington #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #UrbanPhotography

- O'er Wyoming - Wyoming Range - A Wing Above - Natural Partitions Still on the way to Salt Lake City, where I then had my connection flight to Seattle... after a three hour layover... so these are the last of the shots 2/2 #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #FlyByShooting #AerialPhotography

- Flying Cloud Scene - Through The Clouds To The Land Down Below - Anvil Cloud Mesa - Mountain And Cloud Peaks Some of my Fly-By Shootings I took on my day-tripper to Seattle... these are on the way to Salt Lake City 1/2 #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #FlyByShooting #AerialPhotography

The Quiet Of The Absence Of Man in ALT #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #LongExposurePhotography #BlueskyArtShow #Quiet

Good morning, Seattle! #Photography #ColorPhotography #MountRainier #Seattle #iPhoneography

Admiration for those who were disciplined enough to persist and become proficient at playing a musical instrument Have a layover, and in this public area is a piano, from which have been pleasantly marveled at everyday folk sitting at it and playing beautifully Total props and respect to them all

Off on another day-tripper 🤗 Passin’ o’er one of the handful of states that I’ve called my home, #Wyoming… towards that horizon would be Yellowstone… have yet to visit there… closest was Jackson when doin’ the van life #Photography #ColorPhotography #FlyByShooting #AerialPhotography #iPhonetography

Today's #ThrowbackThursday is from fifteen years ago... just a random shot of my then Himalayan kitty cat, Li'l Girl, nappin' away in a little spill of sunlight on the floor... who looks like I needed to brush out of a couple small mats on her back leg 😒☹️😞🤦🏻‍♂️ #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography

Apartment Still Lifes I - IV Plannin' another day trip later this week... was wantin' to take my ol' Fuji nifty-fifty to take along & shoot with on my modern day Fuji... so, just shot some random still lifes around the apartment with it #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StillLifePhotography

Did my usual monthly update of my temporary online portfolio, uploading the "keepers" from the previous month May be later this month that I once again have an actual website back up, after a half dozen years hiatus... we shall see

Siesta This week's #ThrowbackThursday from 2022, taken while doing a little photo wander around town, spying this chameleon like young feller taking himself a little siesta in the little loading area in the back of some establishment in an alley #Photography #ColorPhotography #UrbanPhotography

- Happy Gathering - I Just Got Married. You Just Got Married - Three Generations - A Picture For Grandma Last, post-ceremony, miscellaneous photos from my niece's wedding last friday 👰🏼‍♀️🤵🏽‍♂️ #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #WeddingPhotography

- Wedding Scene - In The Name Of... - First Kiss As Husband And Wife - Deed IS Done 1st niece's wedding, I shot it from the back of the church... last two, I did from the better vantage point of the choir loft 4/4 #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #WeddingPhotography

- Listening - Almost There - With This Ring - Awww The hired photographer, missed that last sweet moment of my niece resting her head... she was too busy chimping, instead of doing her job... I got ya' niece 😉 3/4 #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #WeddingPhotography

- Done Their Parts - The Gospel - Sermon - Proud Papa I don't do weddings, & told all my nieces that years ago... but, have relented... mostly because of my younger brother being the one marrying his daughters 2/4 #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #WeddingPhotography

- Presiding Over Wedding No. 3 - First Reading - Responsorial Psalm - Second Reading Family affair for the ceremony: Father of the bride also marries his third daughter now, younger brothers doing the readings 1/4 #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #WeddingPhotography

- Final Moments Alone - Father Awaiting The Last Of His Girls To Walk Up The Aisle - The Time Has Come - And Away She Goes So, that is it for the pre-ceremony shots… the few I took of the ceremony, coming next 4/4 #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #WeddingPhotography

- Sisters Of The Bride - Brothers Of The Bride - Mother, Father, Nephew Of Bride - My Dwarf Ma Being Taken To Her Seat Shots of the rest of the clan of nieces, nephews, brother, sister-in-law, ma, great nephew 3/4 #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #WeddingPhotography

- Flower Girl No. 2 I & II - My Beauiful Niece About To Be Married - Her Beau To Be The second flower girl, was a daughter of an ex-classmate of the bride… the bride, my niece, gitty about marrying her beau 2/4 #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #WeddingPhotography

Flower Girl O’ My Heart Yesterday, the last of my nieces got married The following are incidental shots I took… the first set here, my second eldest niece’s first born, about to assume her flower girl duties 1/4 #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #WeddingPhotography

Argh... So, I mentioned recently of once again putting up a website... so, when had sites up before, they were all exclusively WordPress... found a theme I really liked, and then saw that it hadn't been updated for the current WP version... then slowly, started recalling all the issues with WP ...

Life In A Spin This week's #ThrowbackThursday is from fifteen years ago, and the result of being backed into a corner creatively... I was a doing a photo-a-day series, and was a day when couldn't think of what to shoot... so, had to get creative #Photography #ColorPhotography #PhotographyArt

- Leaving New York - Arriving Back Oh yeah, guess there are these Didn't do my usual Fly-By Shooting on the NY trip, as I had an aisle seat on the way to 😫 & was night when I returned So, just got these 2 piss poor iPhone pics of leaving & arriving #Photography #FlyByShooting #AerialPhotography

- Ambrose - Brooklyn Side Of The Brooklyn Bridge - Murry Bergtraum Softball Field ... & still had another 18 hours of no sleep to go, until back home... plus, having walked close to a dozen miles when all was said & done, I was feelin' it 2/2 #Photography #ColorPhotography #UrbanPhotography #NYC

- View From Pier 16 - Downtown Manhattan From Manhattan Bridge - Yonder Statue Of Liberty The last of the pics taken from my day tripper to the Big Apple... they are pretty much blah & meh, as I had been up for 24 hours straight... 1/2 #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #UrbanPhotography #NYC

- Steam Pipe, Empire State Building - Don't Walk At East 36th & Fifth - Early Mornin' Bike Ride Pass The Flatiron - Woah, Trippin' Man Now the color shots from my overnight wander of the New York City streets, to pass the time 'til mornin' 2/2 #Photography #ColorPhotography #UrbanPhotography #NYC

- The Langham - 245 Fifth Lobby - Welcome To Union Square, Night - GU Girls After Times Square, to eat up the rest of the overnight, walked the streets of NYC, three and half miles down to the Canyon of Champions for the parade 1/2 #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #UrbanPhotography #NYC

- Knicks 2025-26 NBA Champions - Workin' The Food Cart - Food Cart No. 1,347,212 - Wait, Doc... You're Goin' To Epstein Island - In A DeLorean?! I love New York City! For as many reasons as there are food carts in the city 2/2 #Photography #ColorPhotography #UrbanPhotography #NYC #TimesSquare

- Welcome To New York City - Through The Steam - Kebab - Red Chair This trip was a day trip, I didn't get a hotel... thankfully, I was in the city that never sleeps... so, after the Empire State Building, headed to Times Square 1/2 #Photography #ColorPhotography #UrbanPhotography #NYC #TimesSquare

- Moon, Venus, Jupiter - NYC Density - Chrysler, The UN, Pepsi Cola I think the open air ability to see the NY skyline/view, just allows one to better appreciate that sheer density of so much in so little space 3/3 #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #UrbanPhotography #ArchitecturalPhotography

- Towards Times Square - Flatiron Pointing Towards Roof Gathering - Bryant Park And Area North - From The Rock To 270 Park What was intriguing me the most of the view, was the spectacular sheer density of the Big Apple 2/3 #Photography #ColorPhotography #UrbanPhotography #ArchitecturalPhotography

North, South, East, West Here comes the last of the shots taken from atop the Empire State Building's iconic 86th floor, outdoor observation deck... here, panos looking each direction 1/3 #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #PanoramicPhotography #UrbanPhotography #ArchitecturalPhotography

From Madison Square Garden To The Sunset I & II The shots I will work on next, will be some from blue hour (maybe), and then night shots taken of the lit up city below, as I spent most of the evening up there 3/3 #Photography #ColorPhotography #UrbanPhotography #PanoramicPhotography #NewYorkCity

- Tower Viewer Lookin' Downtown - Sunset Lit Buildings A previous trip, wanted to do the Empire State Building, but never did... so, made a point to this time This 1st batch, shots taken coming up upon sunset 2/3 #Photography #ColorPhotography #UrbanPhotography #PanoramicPhotography #NewYorkCity

- Upper Manhattan - Lower Manhattan Have got done the first few shots I took from my day-tripper to The Big Apple earlier this week When got into town, went straight to the Empire State Building 1/3 #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #UrbanPhotography #PanoramicPhotography #NewYorkCity

White Breasted Nuthatch Eyeing Food At The Bottom Of The Curve Of The Shepherds Pole #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BlueskyArtShow #Curve

Pedestrian Bridge Curve #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #UrbanPhotography #ArchitecturalPhotography #BlueskyArtShow #Curve

Curve Of The Purple Slide Behind The Blue Steps With A White Railing #Photography #ColorPhotography #BlueSkyArtShow #Curve

Ribcage Forgot what day it is, & that it’s #ThrowbackThursday, from my having been awake for nearly 36 hours straight so far, as I flew off to NYC to photograph the ticker tape parade this morning #Photography #ColorPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #UrbanPhotography #ArchitecturalPhotography

- Peeking Great Blue Heron - Lilies In The Sun The little nature reserve is actually called Heron Haven... so, was apropos to see this one here, cautiously peering at me off yonder gawking at, and photographing it 3/3 #Photography #ColorPhotography #NaturePhotography

- Grass - Detail Along The Trail - Catching The Sun - Wooden Swing Amongst Vegetation Black and white shots from the little nature reserve walk I took yesterday, which is tucked away on the northern side of the urban city here 2/3 #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #NaturePhotography

- Duckweed Clad American Bullfrog - Frog On A Log - Sun Basking Turtle, & Little Frog Friend - Sun Basking Turtle, & Little Frog Friend, In Color Went out for a little photo wander yesterday to a local nature reserve 1/3 #Photography #ColorPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #NaturePhotography

- From Birmingham Fly-By Shootings V - VII - On The Tarmac In Atlanta Last of the Birmingham trip shots, all taken in the short hop, skip, & a jump from Birmingham to Atlanta, whose airport is seen in the last two shots 2/2 #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #FlyByShooting #AerialPhotography

From Birmingham Fly-By Shootings I - IV Well, to conclude the whole trip from last weekend, here are the last of the shots, taken on the flight back, all taken in the short hop, skip, & a jump from Birmingham to Atlanta 1/2 #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #FlyByShooting #AerialPhotography

- I Do Not Know - St Paul's Cathedral - In Between Buildings In Alley - Kitty Kitty The last images from my little trip to way down south in Birmingham, I mean south, in Alabam'... more in ALTs #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #ColorPhotography #ArchitecturalPhotography #UrbanPhotography

Tri This week's #ThrowbackThursday is from three years ago, and a little shoot for the one month old lad here, in his sister's and ma's arms #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #PortraiturePhotography