Welcome the the Third Annual Flaming Pumpkin Festival!  It’s always nice to end Halloween with a nice flaming pumpkin…. or pumpkins.

My favorite shot of the night is the one above.  He was  a very small pumpkin with a very large mouth.  Buy prints of him HERE.  Makes a great gift!

I added one element to the photography this year.  I had a wireless flash positioned to the right of the camera with an orange gel to keep the color nice and warm.  I didn’t use it on every shot – see right.  I also had a continuous light behind the jack-o-lanterns gelled blue to illuminate the smoke.

The pumpkins are filled with flammable materials and sprayed with generous portions of lighter fluid.  – Don’t try this at home.

Year Two

Here’s last year’s victims!  More pictures in this post: prestonpro.com/photoblog/2010/11/08/flaming-pumpkin-festival

Year One

My first ever flaming pumpkin.  I loved this guy, he was HUGE.  Here’s a multi-exposure shot from before the burning: prestonpro.com/photoblog/2010/01/09/great-pumpkin

Here’s a trip to Seattle’s Gasworks Park with Connor.

Here’s a nice stock photo of some bills and change.  I made it all in one exposure (no photoshop) using a long exposure and an off camera flash.

The 2011 Seattle Zombie Walk has come and gone with another world record.
It’s now the end of October and this weekend’s ZomBcon has reminded me that I never posted about this event from July!
The record was successfully broken with 4,522 registered zombies.
Here’s a small collection of some of my favorite shots.
I shot the zombies [...]

From a recent trip to the Seattle Arboretum.  The shot above is available for sale at redbubble.com.

Connor climbs onto our log table on a sunny day.  He’s lit with a softbox to the right.

Connor takes a moment out of his day to pose in front of the newly completed picket fence.  He is lit with a softbox on camera right with the sun as a backlight.  The fence is one of the three projects that I finished this year.  The other two are a sandbox and a bed.  [...]

These shots are from an early morning walk on the shores of the southern tip of Maury Island.  I used a small off-camera flash to illuminate the foreground and retain the blue sky.

Leaving only my footprints behind.

Some of the news anchors at Q13 recently asked me to shoot some new headshots for social media sites.

I went to Seattle last night with the hopes of getting a good shot of the “super moon” from Kerry Park.  We arrived before sunset and found dozens of other photographers already there with their cameras and tripods out, lining the wall, waiting for the moon to make an appearance.  I got some shots of [...]