Recent Stories with tag glimpses

Many's the day, searching through the Flickr pool, that I've had to stop and tell myself, "That poor bastard Chris Blakeley...his life sucks!" As indeed it does for the poor bastard, what with being the unofficial court photographer of the Seattle burlesque scene. Ironically, though (for my navel gazing jokes), what gets him that distinction is the fact that when he photographs mostly naked women, Blakeley tends to find the shot that captures the eyes or movement, the drama of the moment. And that's why his photography--whether in the dark of a theatre or a candid shot snapped across a bar--always overwhelms me.

Today we continue our journey through the TSB Flickr pool with Beth Jusino--a.k.a., zenobia_joy. I asked her for an artistic statement, and she basically captures what I would have said of her work:

I moved to Seattle in August 2009, and started wandering the streets with my camera as a way to get my bearings. I'm a total amateur - a writer and editor by day who started taking pictures a few years ago to help me start looking more closely at the world around me. I am drawn to water, color, and detail, and like the occasional odd angle.

Since moving to New York in April, I've been handling the daily Glimpses posts here at TSB, which means that for eight months now I've been digging through the recesses of our award-nominated Flickr pool, looking for the engaging, provocative, sexy, and--in my case, now that I've moved so far away--nostalgia-inducing photos of and around Seattle. And as we move toward the end of the year, I decided to use the month of December to switch things up and showcase not just a daily photo, but a particular photographer whose work I've noticed, enjoyed, and or relied on more than others over the year, and have these chosen few provide me their own lists of their favorite photos.

First up, today we have Tony Case, a.k.a., Great Beyond. Tony's one of several photographers from our Flickr pool who's taken part in a "year in photos" project to put up at least one original photo a day, and he's stuck with it. His photos always jump out at me for a few reasons: one, he has a real knack for capturing minutiae (not so much in evidence here, but check out his photos and you'll see what I mean), and two, he's particularly good at provocative architectural shots.... (more)

From lwestcoat in our Flickr pool.

A lovely shot that just jumped out at me this morning, from zenobia_joy in our Flickr pool.... (more)

TheQ! brings you this lovely shot of the Redmond Lights Festival in our Flickr pool.

A lovely shot from Chris Blakeley, in our Flickr pool.

I think the photographer :MPG: puts it best in his her caption of this photo of the Seattle Coffee Works staff:

it's good to be obsessed about what you really love. these people know what to brew and what to serve. they are some of best of seattle's coffee culture. it's moments and people like these that really make you love seattle.

(From our Flickr pool.)

Really? That was October 21? Crazy, Seattle! (Photo by Great Beyond in our Flickr pool.)

I agree with Smohundro--that is awesome lettering. (From our Flickr pool.)

Piper. Bagpiper. (Photo from Lux Tyro in our Flickr pool.)

An awesome Hipstamatic shot from friend-of-the-site Jennyrh8, in our Flickr pool.

By ChristineMphotos in our Flickr pool.

Our Flickr pool's Chris Blakeley came across this SUV "abandoned maybe fifteen feet away from the top of Queen Anne." Other drivers weren't so lucky.

We're going another way with Glimpses this morning. No snOMG pictures. Pure Kodachrome summer, courtesy of our Flickr pool's Great_Beyond, who writes:

"While summer '10 is all but dead and buried around town, thanks to the lag between me taking Kodachrome pictures and actually developing/posting them, we can still enjoy fragments of it.

Ah, summer...."

1972 "was a bad year if you hate snow," writes our Flickr pool's shawnmebo. "Let's see what Steve Pool has to say about it." Today a bunch of Canadian cold air heads our way, bringing lots of snow in the mountains. Cliff Mass waves off concerns of Snowpocalypse 2010...mostly, noting that tomorrow we see something "close to a pattern that brings snow...but the models are emphatic that it is too warm over most of the lowlands for snow. The freezing level is at around 2000 ft and the snow level is around 1000 ft. This is close."

"We stopped on the parkway overpass and got out to look at the sunset. Ever since the airborne toxic event, the sunsets had become almost unbearably beautiful. Not that there was a measurable connection. If the special character of Nyodene Derivative (added to the everyday drift of effluents, pollutants, contaminants and deliriants) had caused this aesthetic leap from already brilliant sunsets to broad towering ruddled visionary skyscapes, tinged with dread, no one had been able to prove it." --Don Delillo, White Noise (Photo by troyjmorris, on SoCal sabbatical, in our Flickr pool.)

You know, it's actually pretty rare that we have a photo of one of our Flickr pool contributors, since usually they're the one behind the camera. But here's elizabethspace, standing on a recent wet day at Olive and Broadway, totally and completely stoked that she just paid off her mortgage! Congrats to Elizabeth for managing to keep her head above water in this economy--she's got better money management skills than this writer for sure (though thankfully, I have no mortgage).

TheQ! brings us glamorous travel photos from far-off, Apple-loving locations...like Bellevue? All in our Flickr pool!.

What baby does to your life. (From Walsh, in our Flickr pool.)

Thanks to new TSB Flickr pool contributor Lotus21 for this thought-provoking image.

Do you remember where you were whenever whatever the hell this is happened? Just kidding--another rad photo via a toybox camera filter from Mr. Slightlynorth (actually, that'd be Mr. Shawn McClung) over in TSB's mad-hype Flickr pool.

From zenobia_joy in our Flickr pool.... (more)

Another fine Glimpses-worthy photo from lwestcoat in our Flickr pool.

Don't worry, Seattle--I'm not sure what the title means, either. :-) (From smohundro in our Flickr pool.)