Tulips

A visitor snaps a photograph in a field of multi-colored tulips during the last week of the twenty-seventh annual Skagit Valley Tulip Festival at near Mt Vernon WA.
Photo by Gilbert W. Arias ©2010 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

On the Needle

Workers on top of the Seattle Space Needle stop for a photo opportunity as they install fireworks for an upcoming event.
I made this photo with one of my Holga plastic camera while standing in the roof access hatch. I love the camera’s unpredictably results, the vignetting, distortions and blurred images brings me back to simpler place and time, which I find to be a enjoyable alternative to the sterilize dit-cameras available today.
© BY GILBERT W. ARIAS……ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Pileated Woodpecker

A young Pileated Woodpecker rest on a stump before heading off to feed on nearby fir tree.
©Gilbert W. Arias2010

Gone But Not Forgotten

A Seattle Police Officer holds his hat containing the memorial service program for four slain Lakewood Police Officers while he attends the memorial service for Pierce County Sheriffs Officer Kent Mundell. Officer Mundell was killed in the line of duty while responding to a domestic violence call in December 2009.
The four Lakewood officers, Sergeant Mark Renninger, Officer Tina Griswold, Officer Ronald Owens, and Officer Greg Richards were ambushed and killed in the line of duty.