New and Ongoing Show at Caprice Kitchen

This post is way overdue, but I have a nice assortment of 11 images hanging in the Caprice Kitchen in Ballard, 1418 NW 70th, 98117 / 206-371-2886.  This is a really nice neighborhood restaurant that serves dinner Wednesday through Sunday and brunch on Saturday and Sunday.  

Chef Anne Catherine builds the seasonal menus around visits to local farms and neighborhood markets - it's a shameless sales pitch on my part, but one I find very easy to make from personal experience.

Following are a few images from the show, along with a brief story of each.  The pieces hanging in the restaurant are also for sale so contact me if interested.  Enjoy, and let me know if you have any questions.

Eventide | Morning Glory: October, 2008 - White Sands National Monument.  I'm not much of a camper but discovered that the only way I was going to be able to take advantage of the sweet light in the evenings or at dawn was to reserve one of 10 campsites in the entire monument.  it's about a half-mile hike from the parking lot, so I dragged my one-man tent, sleeping bag and about 40 lbs of gear and had an incredible three days and two nights there.  These two images were taken at dusk and just after dawn respectively

  

 In stark contrast to the kind of serene beauty found at White Sands, is the more chaotic beauty of the lower west side of New York City.  A friend who lives in Manhatten and I spent an evening walking the streets with our cameras and tripods in January 2010.  This image (Meatmarket) is of a wildly painted and graffiti covered meat packing plant just off the Hudson River Greenway.  It's actually a combination of five that were taken at various exposures and merged to get the full, almost surreal dynamic range (see this post for more of an explanation)