"I'm on a Boat" Images.

Last weekend I took the ferry to Orcas Island, which is one of the San Juan Islands north of Seattle. As you might expect, everyone crowded to the rail to shoot the standard landscape/water “I’m on a boat” shots. Here is one that i took.

This cleared my way to head down to the underbelly of the ferry, where the grungy inner workings and structural elements were going completely unappreciated. 

It was a beautiful hour-long ride. Rich textures and patterns in the steel led to meticulously arranged pipes and hoses. Unique valves were their own art objects. And much of the parking deck was unoccupied, exposing a vast expanse of concrete with brightly painted lanes and captivating symmetry.

Zenfolio Featured Site

Here's some good news. A few weeks ago Seven One Studio was contacted by Zenfolio who inquired about the possibility of featuring our website on their front page. Who, you may ask, is Zenfolio? Well for those photography novices, Zenfolio is a well respected web hosting provider for professional photographers. In addition to hosting photography sites, they manage all the sales, printing, and shipping of photographic works of art. Apparently, they were in the midst of redesigning their website and wanted to feature some of the more well designed websites, like Seven One Studio, on their front page. To say this is a compliment, is sort of an understatement. So of course I said yes!! Who doesn't want a little free publicity? Here is a picture of how the "spotlight" looked. And for those who haven't yet seen my website, just visit www.sevenonestudio.com. Let me know your favorite photos and maybe you'll see them on the front page.

Choices

Hey Everyone,
I have been going through thousands of pictures that i have taken in the last couple of weeks and need some help choosing between certain ones. So if you could leave in the Comments which image you prefer and possibly any reasoning behind it, i would appreciate it. And if say you like the composition of one, but don't love the color, let me know that too. And you can just use numbers, 1,2 or 3. Or NONE, i guess would be an option, if none of them do it for you, thats ok too.

Thanks

Ryan

A Question.

On a recent trip, I stopped by an Alpaca farm and got into a discussion/disagreement over this unique animal. It was my position that they are indeed very ugly animals. And others in my group thought they were really cute. And another had the theory, a magical theory if you will, that they are so ugly they become cute. Is this possible? Can something go so far to one side of a scale, that they circle back around to become the complete opposite?

Now I had some pictures that would prove my UGLY view point, but in fairness to the others, I decided to display the picture with the little baby and momma.

Let me know what you think.

Congrats to Chris Horner and Team Radioshack

I know this is a week late, but i first wanted to congratulate those guys for a great job at the Tour of California. And it made me think of the many Tour of California's i had the joy of watching and Photographing. These Images were all taken before there was a Team Radio Shack, so don't be looking for them.

Also Trek Bicycles is doing a series on Passion and being Driven towards a goal. Featuring Team Radio Shack rider Jani Brajkovic. I found it inspiring, and the new Trek Bike's were painted by Shepard Fairey, and they look Awesome.






Enjoy.

Garageband on iPad Awesomeness

First off let me make it clear that this is not me. Those that know me, i'm sure would immediately jump to the conclusion that this was me. But rest assured it is not. Anyway i saw this online and thought it was awesomeness, as i stated in the title. And thus i share with you.

Option A or Option B

Long time no see. Well at least on this site.

But i am back and have some new stuff to share. I was in Los Angeles not to long ago and did some shooting down at Huntington Beach. It was at Sunset and there were lots of birds flying around, then they would land and i would run over and scare them and they would Fly into the air and i would shoot pictures of them. While this was loads of fun it wasn't really allowing me to get any great pictures because they were just of birds flying. So i decided to move on from the birds and try and shoot some backlit shots of the lifeguard towers. Then luckily some kids came around and were chasing after the birds, so i talked them into helping me out and chasing them towards the Lifeguard Stands.

So i ended up with a bunch of images, but i chose one and did two treatments on it, one is color and one is B&W, i can't decide which one i like more, so i thought i would throw it to my followers and see what you thought.

Option A

Option B

So leave some comments and let me know what you think. 

Later

Ryan