For nearly 40 years now I have made my living as a photographer, and one of the things that I really enjoy about my work is that most of the time it is not -- work, I mean.
Often I play. And always there is so much serendipity involved in the seeing and shooting of a photograph.
The image above presented itself one day last week when I stepped out our door and noticed pretty light on the Japanese anemones that grow in front of our house, and on the string of prayer flags that hang nearby. I used my phone camera for the image.
Then, last Saturday some friends and I headed to the North Cascades to do a hike, except that we never made it to the trail because our van broke down in the town of Mazama in the Methow Valley, about three hours from home. We had to call a tow truck to transport the van and we four hikers back to Seattle.
The picture below was shot out the tow truck window during the (expensive) trip home, and it is a testament to the beauty of the North Cascades that such an image can be shot at 55 miles per hour, through a dirty window, on a day that did not even remotely go as planned.
