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Hi Friends,

Here we are, once again, on a lockdown.  This time it is due to the smoke from the wildfires.  It has been a week of very unhealthy to hazardous air. 



The air quality reigned in my wanderlust as it put an immediate end to my summer of exploring outdoors.

As our Seattle summer comes to an end, this is the month that I "normally" travel to Italy to paint.  This year, I am traveling through my photographs.

I love to paint, but photography is my first passion, my outlier trait.  I remember being five or six years old, and my family owned one of those polaroids with the rotating flashcubes on top.  Images were a precious commodity then, so I was limited to one or two photos a week.  

I have not been without a camera since high school.  During those years, I worked as an Associated Press Stringer Photographer.  I would capture local events and then drive and meet the AP photographers in a nearby larger city's hotel room.  A dark room would be set up in the bathroom, and they would develop my film and pay me $75 for any image they wanted to use.  

With those early earnings, I built my own darkroom in our house's basement and eventually studied photography in college.  The combination of my wanderlust and love for photography came together to create some fantastic experiences and compelling images that reinforced my urge to document and create.

I recently updated my online store with some of my favorite photographs.



If you are like me and just itching to get out of the house, visit my website for a little online virtual travel. 



All images are captured on professional prints by Bay Photo Labs, and I am running a huge sale now through the end of this month.  I hope you find a few that take you back to a particular place or inspire you to plan a trip as soon as the world lets us out again.

Hang in there friends,

Jamie