Volunteer Park Conservatory Outing

March 27, 2017January 27, 2018 / Seattle Park Lover / 2 Comments

Regular readers may recall that last September I went on a Seattle mini-tour with my best friend for her birthday. Our first tour stop was supposed to be the Conservatory at Volunteer Park, the one place she had requested to go. But we didn’t even make it to the park because the surrounding streets were shut down for a huge fun run event based inside the park.

Fast forward to this March. After weeks of gray rainy days, I suggested this would be a good time to finally retry our aborted trip. The Conservatory is a great outing option when the weather is cold and/or wet.

Mother Nature apparently has a sense of irony though. Our Escape From the Rain Sunday arrived, complete with cloudless skies and abundant sunshine. Oh well, off we went.

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Short Walk on a Long Pier

March 24, 2017 / Seattle Park Lover / 2 Comments

This is one of the first photos I took with my new camera. I bought it at Kenmore Camera, which is very near Log Boom Park. I had to wait out an intense hail storm before leaving the store, and then was able to catch the dramatic clouds at the park before the initial small charge in the battery gave out.

Posted for Cee’s Which Way Challenge.

Eat at ick’s?

March 23, 2017March 23, 2017 / Seattle Park Lover / 10 Comments

A couple weeks ago I was amused to see that the light for the D was out in this sign, making one of the famous Seattle burger stands sound slightly less appetizing.

Posted for Cee’s B&W Challenge with the topic of the letters G or H. H is for hamburgers!

Photography for Beginners Part 3: Shutter Priority Mode

March 13, 2017June 25, 2018 / Seattle Park Lover / Leave a comment

Each post in this series builds on information discussed in previous posts. See the Photography for Beginners page on the menu for links to all the posts.

Part 2: Auto Mode & Program Mode

In this post I’m going to discuss Shutter Priority Mode, usually designated by an S on your camera mode dial if it has one. (Tv, or time value, on Canon cameras.)

What is Shutter Priority Mode?

It’s called Shutter Priority Mode because you are making the shutter speed your priority in how you expose the image. In Shutter Priority Mode you control the shutter speed and allow the camera to automatically choose the correct aperture to go with it.