Black Thursday

Ali Shah and Andrew Kim have been second in line for Best Buy's Black Thursday (Gray Thursday?) 6 pm opening since Tuesday, although they are part of a crew of eight that had been taking shifts holding down the fort. The Mountlake Terrace seniors say they are each hoping to buy TVs, Xboxes, laptops, and tablets. "Xbox...es?" I ask, and they confirm that they will be trying to purchase multiples of each item to resell at a higher price.

Cracked water main

Water main break closes Everett street

Portrait of the soccer player as a young woman

Cali Crisler, Archbishop Murphy

Cali Crisler, Archbishop Murphy

Article: Murphy's Crisler: Herald's Soccer Player of the Year

Mukilteo fire

Article here.

Seahawks vs. Vikings

1st NFL game. I learned a ton, and I am looking forward to the  next time I get the opportunity. The Herald gallery, with pictures mostly by the great Jennifer Buchanan, can be found via a link in this article.

ACTION SHOT: Cordarrelle Patterson

FEATURE SHOT: Star Spangled Banner

State Swim/ Dive

I had the privilege of photographing the WIAA state girl's swim championship today. These are some pictures I didn't put in the Herald's gallery. Full gallery via here.

Hockey Night in Everett

State XC

There's some inspirational quote somewhere about how at the starting line of a race everybody is just as close to winning as the next person. Or something.

Article/ full gallery via here.

Leigh

Finish line

Running backs

Chance Ragsdale, left, and Malcolm Johnson, running backs at Mountlake Terrace High School.

Ticket booth

USS Ford decommissioning

Marching band

Spoooooky Houses

Cruised around to shoot pictures of houses well-decorated for Halloween. I came to the conclusion that people who have invested in funny decorations are likely to be funny themselves.

Victor and Tina in Everett

Don in Mukilteo.

Everett Crew

Foggy soccer

Not impressed

JJIE

As the Missouri Photo Workshop began to wind down, a fellow workshopper, Gwen McClure, approached me asking if I might be interested in having a story done about my story on the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange website. Very neat. She whipped up a super article, complete with bonus photographs not seen in the MPW edit.

Washington Post picture editor MaryAnne Golon said of the workshop in 2002:

"This is a bubble, a wonderful, fabulous bubble. Jump inside the bubble and say 'ooooh' and realize that this is great because it doesn't exist anywhere but here. Take advantage of it and immerse yourself."

To get a glimpse of what the MPW bubble was like for me, READ THIS!

Mt. Pilchuck/ Fog

"Fog", by Carl Sandburg, is one of my favorite poems. I thought of it when looking at these pictures from a hike today up and behind Mt. Pilchuck.

The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.

Cascade HS homecoming