As a fledgling photographer I created a project to capture the city around me. It gives me a chance to take a bunch of pictures and scratch the surface on tweaking them so they look their "best" I am focusing on framing and rule of thirds and different angles that show a different perspective, Funny thing is the Wild Rainier picture I didn't realize I had until I pulled the pics from the camera. It was actually caught in the Fireplace photo, I pulled it out scaled it and

I started my work in genealogy decades ago with the Church of Latter Day Saints. The Mormons are big into Genealogy and have a tremendous amount of information on your ancestors. For people without those family connections, Genealogy is about filling in the gaps. I started with very little information on my mother's family. She died young and had no relationship with her mother or father who were both deceased long before I started my genealogy journey. I honestly didn'

I took a trip to Anacortes to visit Glen. he is showing me the ropes on photography. I'm using a camera he gave me an Olympus E500. Its a nice little camera that generates some pretty nice images. To say its fully featured is a bit of understatement. The manual is 216 pages long and kind of a small tutorial on photography in and of itself. As far as the pictures above, the Bald Eagle and Mt Baker seascape is from Cap Sante in Anacortes. The nightscape of Seattle is from