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Shooting in clearview wa11/24/2023 ![]() The suspect took off running too, the witness said. Those officers spotted the suspect and started running toward him. He said he saw three officers walking along Linden Street. One witness declined to give his name but spoke with a reporter in Spanish, through an interpreter who identified himself as Omar Carreon. The other one is a shot where the spider isn't highlighted by the sun.Three officers - one Everett police sergeant, one Lynnwood sergeant and one Snohomish County sheriff’s deputy - were placed on administrative leave pending an investigation, as is standard when an officer uses deadly force.Īccording to investigators, officers rendered aid, but the man died at the scene. However, I was pleasantly surprised with the outcome when I got back to my studio and saw that I had captured the silhouetted scene you see here. I didn't have a tripod so shooting this picture with my zoom fully engaged, a baby wrapped up on my belly, and cars whizzing by on a bouncing bridge was a bit of a challenge and didn't leave me with real high expectations of a clear shot. ![]() I happened to be studying it at just such an angle that the setting sun was floating in my view right behind and I got to wondering what would happen if I got in real close on the spider and silhouetted it in the setting sun. I was shooting some standard pictures of the Snohomish River from the Ave D bridge as dusk settled when a little spider in the railing caught my eye. I took my daughter Juliet out for a stroll around Snohomish last October while I was shooting some pictures for National Geographic's Photo Contest 2011 (there are some amazing pics in their gallery, by the way) in hopes to find an interesting shot. So why is it titled The Pretty Way? Because this view is off an alternate route of oft-driven Highway 9 and on pretty days my wife asks me if we should take "the pretty way." Although the picture was taken before we were married, I think it sums up my thoughts about the picture quite well. It was quite a lucky opportunity and I couldn't have dialed it up any better. ![]() I'd already burnt up a good chunk of my memory card just capturing the sunrise when this curious horse came strolling across to see what the fuss was about and stopped in perfect position. I hadn't gone far when I come across this scene of the sunrise over the mountains in the background of this horse pasture. I knew even less than the little I know now about taking pictures, but I did know that it was a beautiful morning and I certainly wouldn't capture it by sitting at home. It's proof positive that sometimes all you need to do to get a nice shot is get out. This shot was taken on a Saturday morning way back in 2007 when I was just starting to take photography seriously and was shooting with my first SLR, a Canon Rebel XTi. Then I uploaded it to my computer where I upped the saturation and contrast and gave it a sepia-ish hue using Adobe Photoshop Elements. But maybe there would be an old-fashioned angle I could take with it? I used the Adobe Photoshop Express app initially to convert the image to black-and-white and add a vignette. The ugly fluorescent office lighting was reflecting off all the folds though and with my cheap little phone camera I definitely wasn't going to get a good raw picture. I love maps, and I liked the pastel color scheme and contrasting elements in this one. ![]() This image here is a shot I took of a large, laminated world map hanging on an office kitchen wall. It's a fun challenge that gives you meaningful backgrounds. Since it doesn't take high quality images to begin with, it's fun to play with its weaknesses to try and turn a lame picture into something interesting to look at by taking creative license in an editing program. Digital ones, that is, for digital devices.
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