We stopped for snacks and drinks… twice.

As the sun went down we found a strangely deserted 5 lane city street in downtown Tacoma and took advantage of it….

What a good looking couple huh? Love you guys! See you Saturday at Erin’s.

~Bill

Check out a few of the images and feel free to leave a comment at the bottom.

After the sun went down we headed over to the bridge of glass and the waterfront - it was raining by then, hence the umbrella.

I had a great time hanging out with you guys - I’m bummed you’re moving all the way to Ohio after the wedding…

~Bill

They’re a relaxed and fun couple and I’m really looking forward to their wedding -

A couple of steamy kisses ~

This one with a little sun flare - I love sun flare…

Walking away… together.

Thanks guys - I’ll see you soon!

~Bill

After 2 years with Exposuremanager as our gallery host and product sales solution, it’s time for an upgrade. All the existing galleries will remain active either until they expire or until they get transfered over to the new system.

The new system is hosted on a secure server under our control. This gives us much more flexibility in giving great customer service and offering new innovative products and services.

Please check it out and let me know what you think, it’s still in beta (we’re still setting it up).

New secure gallery system

This change also allows us to consolidate all of our print orders to one lab (the best one!). In the past if you ordered in person or on the phone your prints came from a different lab than if you ordered online.

A few new benefits:

Black and white and Sepia options: The new software will let you see these options and add them directly to your shopping cart. No more need to make a special request when you want to order a print in B/W or sepia ~ Cool!

Saved shopping cart and favorites: Now when you add products to your shopping cart it will remember them even if you log off and come back later or from another computer. This is huge when you’ve got a lot of images to look through and decide on. Using the new favorites feature to narrow down before adding your selection to the cart is a great tool too.

Eary Bird Discount and clear expiration dates: The new early bird discount feature will give a 10% discount on any order placed within 5 days of the gallery posting. I love this feature! It’s less work for us to process orders right after an event, so it makes sense to pass the saving along. And having a clearly posted expiration date on each gallery is an improvement too!

Enlarged view and compare: Now you can zoom in each image and see it better as well as look at images side by side with the compare feature to help make the decision process that much easier.

That isn’t even all of the improvements, but it’s all I can think of right now. lol.

We’re always looking for ways to improve the service we provide ~ and I think this one is a big step forward!

Have a great weekend!

~Bill

Check out the full set of images in our new gallery system here: NW Fight Challenge VI

For the camera geeks out there: it’s amazing to me that these are all taken at ISO 2500 with the Canon 1DmkIII and I’m actually adding grain to them in photoshop to get the gritty feeling I want in the final images. crazy (good crazy!)

I was glad to see my friend Joel win his match, his was the grand finale title fight of the night - good job man!

Can you tell he’s happy about in?

Be sure and check out the rest from all 15 matches.

~Bill

EDIT: This image was included in the promo video from the Leaving Las Vegas shoot where I took it.  You  can watch the video in HD here: LLV Video   Cool!

~Bill

These shots were all created in the desert outside of Vegas using bright mid-day sun and my little portable off camera strobe:

I had such a great time at WPPI and at the shoot on Thursday, I can’t wait till next year!

~Bill

She’s a 14 week old bull mastiff and she’s a lot smaller than we expected, the collar we got at Pet Smart today wouldn’t stay on, so I had to run and get another one, along with some high end puppy food too.

We took Cody to the park across the street to intoduce them, they say it’s better to introduce dogs on neutral turf, I think they’re going to get along famously, Cody has been lonely since his sister Savita passed away….

Here’s one for size comparison… I imagine she’ll get at least as big as Cody is now

A wide lens closeup for fun

She’s sleeping in the corner between a chair and a cabinet, the new world is big and scary…

Time for dinner.. for them and us.

~Bill

Click to see the rest ~ more pics and the slideshow:

(more…)

The whole set of images and print ordering can be found here: Budd Bay vs Eugene (last years are still available too)

They have a new sponsor, Ballyhoo Pub and Restaurant, so the jerseys are new this year.

I also shot 10 games at a middle school aged girls basketball tournament. The gallery is here.

A couple of my favorites:

My calendar is filling up and things are starting to get busy for the new year, and I like that

Have a great afternoon ~ Bill