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Seattle! (part one)

Despite my best intentions, a year has passed since I last posted. The truth is that I don’t shoot as much as I once did, but I’m trying to get back into the habit because it really does bring me immense joy. Living in a rural area has its perks (peace and quiet! landscapes! birds! sunsets!), but it’s the city that feeds my creative spirit.

I visited the great city of Seattle for the first time in April, and it did not disappoint. I explored every neighborhood and met so many interesting people. It was very inspiring.

Here’s the first set of photos, some of which I posted to the final gallery (places > seattle), some of which I haven’t posted at all. I’ll follow up with a few more posts since there are too many photos for just one (or two) posts.

All photos shot with a Fuji XPro2 with a 35mm f/1.4 lens.

Inside the Columbia Center, the tallest building in Seattle!

Enjoying a drink at the bar at Maximilien, a lovely French restaurant inside of Pike Place Market. Pike Place is in my top three favorite markets I’ve ever visited.

So many gorgeous flower stands inside of Pike Place

I enjoyed one of these each of the four times I visited the market. One of the most delicious things I’ve ever eaten.

This lovely man whose name escapes me worked at the fish market that sold the scallops. The smoked salmon that he was offering samples of was also insanely delicious.

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New Orleans! (part two)

Second and final installment of my favorite photos from my April trip to New Orleans. All photos shot on a Fuji XPro2 with a 35mm f/1.4 lens.

The majestic house cat at Dauphine Street Books awaking from a siesta.

Erin Rose’s, where my coworker, Alyssa, and I got the BEST frozen Irish coffees.

This looked like the worst pizza I’d ever seen, tbh.

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Sayulita, Mexico (part three)

Here’s the third and final installment of the Fuji photos. Polaroids to come!

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Sayulita, Mexico (part two)

Here’s the second installment of photos from our November trip to Sayulita.

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Sayulita, Mexico (part one)

Sayulita, Mexico, is a magical place. It’s saturated with color, lush vegetation, amazing local artists, some of the friendliest people I’ve encountered, and the best margaritas I’ve ever had. I traveled there with my husband and two close friends for seven nights in late November through early December, and I finally just finished editing and narrowing down the abundance of photos I shot to a number I can manageably present.

I recently retired my Canon 5D Mark II, which had been my reliable companion for almost a decade, for a Fuji X-Pro2 (outfitted with the 23mm f/1,4 lens). The Fuji is mirrorless, which presented a pretty significant learning curve since I’ve only ever used an SLR. Thankfully, Sayulita had no shortage of eye-catching scenes, so I got to practice a lot.

This is my first blog post in nearly a decade. The photos I made in Sayulita motivated me to create an entirely new blog through Squarespace, a platform much more well-suited for photo-viewing than Wordpress (I won’t bother linking my old one because all of the photos have since been watermarked with the Photobucket logo—how antiquated!). There will be three installments of Sayulita photos, plus an additional post containing all the Polaroids I shot but have yet to scan. I hope you enjoy the first.