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The Fishbowl Gallery - April 4th, 2025

The photo is of una_argentina_en_eeuu, whom I met last year at the SOS Cosplay Fun and Open Topic. The Gum Wall shot came from the 2nd shoot: Gimena – May 11th, 2024. Found out about The Fishbowl Last month when I was sitting at CoCA when a fellow photographer came into the gallery and told me about The Fishbowl. She told me of the Second Skin show, which I promptly chickened out, and I thought…

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Ant Gallery – November 2024

Ant Gallery’s November’s golden print is Hiroko K taken off Broadway on October 2nd 1991 in Seattle’s Capitol Hill. If you want to find out more about this shoot, check it out in my Ameblo blog Hiroko 1991/10/02 about the shoot. The print on the other hand was toned with a DIY Developer toner with single weight fiber paper I got from Famous PNW Rock Photographer Saulius Pempe when he was…

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Ant Gallery – Sept-Oct 2024

September-October’s photo came from the CoCA – A Dreadful Beauty – Gothic Art show in May, and I titled it Ginger. The photo came from a shoot I did back in October 6th, 1999 on what I could recall to be a kind of cold fall day. The clothing came from Ginger’s own closet, and she modeled as she did in different clothes that she brought to the shoot. This was Gingers first and only model test shot…

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Ant Gallery – August 2024

Ant Gallery’s August’s borderless print is @maineya.cos as Hoshino Ai taken in Bellevue’s Wilburton Hill Park on July 20th at Bellevue Cosplay Picnic event. If you want to find out more about this shoot, check it out in my Ameblo blog – Bellevue Cosplay Picnic 2024/07/20. The first day of the show will start on August 1st, although the gallery opening starts August 3rd at 5 PM.

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Ant Gallery & CoCA Gallery – July 2024

Ant Gallery’s July show is showing Hat, Gloves, Boa, And Boots taken at my OK Hotel Studio back in 2008. The model was an artist model at the time and the studio was in an unfinished DIY period. If you want to find out more about this shoot, check it out in my Ameblo blog. You can visit the gallery now and check out the art, although the gallery opening starts July 6th at 5 PM. This month’s CoCA…

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Gimena - May 11th, 2024

Met Gimena (@una_argentina_en_eeuu) at the SOS Cosplay Fun and Open Topic shoot on a balmy March Saturday, where she was cosplaying Black Widow. It took a few months with the next balmy Saturday this time in May. Gimena was game to pose with new cosplay glasses that I got from Temu. She desired the shot of Post Alley, so I took it with a bit too much bokeh, but that did help to blur out how busy…

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Solar Storm May 10th, 2024

Heard about the solar storm from yesterday’s news and wondered if I could capture it with the Sony NEX-6 with its Brightin Star 35mm F1.7. The shots ranged from a few seconds to as much as the max of 30 seconds. Really didn’t have any idea if I was going to get anything, but I kept reviewing the shots, and the live view did help to find the Solar Storm. The tripod that was used was a 3 leg mono…

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Model test 2024/5/4

She came in to Ant Gallery during the art opening with her friends. I asked if she would model and she said yeah! I didn’t have my usual Sony a6000 with the usual Sigma 30mm F1.4 DC DN lens but an older Sony NEX-6 with a manual focus Brightin Star 35mm f1.7 lens. Shoot took close to 45 seconds and resulted in 10 shots. I didn’t edit the shots because I liked the way they looked with the way the…

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Busy art show month—May-June 2024

This month I will have 3 shows, Ant Gallery, Foggy Tea Shop and A Dreadful Beauty: History & Art from Gothic Pride Seattle at CoCa Seattle. Stacy This print will be shown at Ant Gallery, and it was part of the CoCa show Submittal, but oddly wasn’t voted to be gothic enough!? 😭 It was taken of a real gothic back in the end of the 90s who I met at The Mercury goth bar in Seattle. The shoot…

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Ant Gallery – April 2024

My Photographer I’m sure you have wondered whose my personal photographer, plus she has to be cute, shy and a little clueless! Back in 2008 it was Model Mayhem model Wei-Ming that played the photographer part for a few shots! The photo taken as landscape vs. a portrait for some reason, and later for the shot I cropped it to a portrait. Taken at Seattle’s waterfront, just a few blocks from my OK…

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SOS Cosplay Fun and Open Topic

1 @sunfirecosplay 2 @dezylllovee 3 @thatcostama 4 @manacosplayorsomething 5 6 @jade_snider2440 7 8 I didn’t know what to expect since I’ve never taken part of the Seattle Open Shoot events until now. The event happened at Washington Park Arboretum on not only nice but warm day close to last days of Winter. The issue with this is that the park was unusually busy, which didn’t leave those who…

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Ant Gallery-March 2024

Ant Gallery print for March is title “Missing You” taken on the escalator at Seattle Public Library – Central Library on February 5th 2011. The shoot was originally planned to happen at Capital hill’s Republican Hill Climb steps, but it was raining, so I suggested the Library. The shoot was quite short, only consisting of 19 shots and one warm outfit. You can see more of this shoot on my ameblo…

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Ant Gallery - February 2024

Ant Gallery print for February is title “Mitchi” and is a model mayhem model. The shoot is from a vintage model test from April 13th 2011 photographed with Canon EOS 20D, Canon EF-S 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 and Canon Speedlite 220Ex flash. Flash uses a Gary Fong Puffer not being used as intended which created an interesting cookie cutter lighting effect. The shooting location was the consignment and…

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Lennora 10/30/2006

Seems that I do have the luck to photograph girlfriends but fail to keep them. A good deal of my models seem to fall for me quicker than I can return the favor, and by the time I return the favor they have moved on. If only she could have a clue that I was Demisexual and just needed more time for me to return the affection… Still, it might have been that she was my model, and it’s rare for me to…

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Ant Gallery — December 2023

Decembers photo is of Bonice a Model Mayhem model from August 4h 2013. I was inspired to print it because I have been posting old shoots to my ameba blog, a Japanese blog site I joined a number of years ago. I’m also inspired to wanting to do more model tests like I used to shoot years ago to sorta compete with the other photographers on ameba. Many of these photographers either go to…

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Ant Gallery – November 2023

This month’s print, found in a box that had suffered from the Pacific Northwest hot and cold weather most recently in a garage and had been in an unheated storage locker for more or less than 10yrs. The print titled for the show Stained Fingerwave. Unknown when the print was made, but thinking it was made in the Kirkland dark garage darkroom in the 90s. The print is most likely Ilford MULTIGRADE…

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Ant Gallery – Sept-October 2023

The shot is from my archives and is an old DIY toned print from the late 90s that was printed on Forté Warmtone paper. The shoot happened October 2nd 1998 in Seattle’s Lake View Cemetery in Seattle’s Capitol Hill community. The shoot was also the 2nd shoot, having only done a few shots of her when I met her at Machineworks Goth/Fetish bar one night on 5th Ave N just across the street from the…