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Shoe Hands: Personal

Joshua Mahar — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:10:33 +0000

Ok…I couldn’t resist putting this up!

Saturday in Seattle: Personal

Joshua Mahar — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:31:31 +0000

I have been sick for like 5 days. Last Wednesday night my usual sinus related cold hit, and I was done. I didn’t start recovering until Saturday, which was good, because for the first part of the day it was gorgeous! We were out looking for camera bags, because I have needed a lens bag to compliment what I already have, and the only place I know that I can actually play around with Think Tank bags is Glazers in downtown Seattle. So all three of us went up to the city to putz around in a camera store for an hour. Afterwards we decided that we couldn’t make a trip up to Seattle without spinning by Red Mill Burgers for my absolute favorite burger in the universe! This was Ainsley’s first Red Mill encounter and it was a swimming success.

Here is the Inter Bay location

and, I couldn’t help but take some shots of a really cool old yard with this sweet building

Me, by Sarah

Joshua Mahar — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:36:52 +0000

So this is me…and these shots were taken by my wonderful wife Sarah. She has just started getting excited about photography, and these are the fruit of that excitement. How’d she do?

On the Porch

Joshua Mahar — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:10:35 +0000

So tonight, at like 8:30 pm, Ains decides that she would like to go for a walk…after the walk she and Sarah come in and Ainsley asks to go out to the back porch. I look over and she is wearing our head lamp. Here is a shot of her out on the porch. She spent most of the time dancing around. Sorry neighbors…

Megan’s Second Birthday

Joshua Mahar — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:47:01 +0000

Occasionally, I have the opportunity to take tons of pictures of kids! I have a lot of opportunity with Ainsley, but she has become really used to the camera, and ignores my attempts to get her to do cute stuff on command. Friend’s children have not built up this amazing defense mechanism. It is also really rewarding to nail shots of kids just running around being kids. One other thing I love is that their parents are usually really thrilled that they just had someone take some great shots of their children for free. Here are a few highlights from the day.

I love this guy! This the proud father of the birthday girl.

These two are mine! Love this image.

I thought I was going above and beyond by agreeing to read to them. At one point there were like 5 kids all huddled around. It turns out that they suckered my wife two weeks ago at the last party that I missed because I was shooting in Napa.

David + Elizabeth: Mid-Edit

Joshua Mahar — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:02:14 +0000

Back at the end of 09 I had the opportunity to visit family down in Cottage Grove OR, where my cousin was getting married. They asked me if I would shoot for them, and I could think of no better wedding gift than wedding images. I am nearly finished with them, and I wanted to share a few shots from the day. The first is a standard back of the church shot, but I love the coloring from the stain glass on the wall. The second is of my cousin and her new husband singing a beautiful worship song, accompanied by David’s mandolin playing. It was very nice, and a great expression of their love for each other. The final one is a bit more sentimental, at least to me. This is my Grandma Barbara. Since she lives in Oregon, and we have lived 4 of the last 5 years in Massachusetts, and the last year here in the Seattle area, it has been very difficult to see her. This trip was the first opportunity for her to meet our daughter. She also has fairly pronounced memory loss and didn’t recognize me, though I was prepared for this. I have no idea what is in store, but this might have been one of the last times I will get to see her. She is an ordained pastor, and has been doing her best to follow Jesus for the majority of her life. This is her singing. This was one of the images that I most wanted to make that weekend.

At “the farm”: personal

Joshua Mahar — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:26:49 +0000

This last weekend I got to unplug a bit and go visit family that I wasn’t able to see over Christmas. The first outing involved a 40min drive up to my wife’s Aunt and Uncle’s place in Redmond. We had a very nice time playing Pinochle, and exploring the grounds of their very nice farm. They have four horses, and enough property for you to forget how close to the city you really are. I had a lot of fun there, and I have a number of fine art images to post, along with some portraits. One of the nice things about this time of year is that I get to flex my nature and landscape fine-art muscles a bit, which is fun! For those of you looking for more wedding and portrait images, I do have a number of posts planned for the rest of this month, so know that I’ve got your back! Cheers

Ains…Look Up!

Joshua Mahar — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:58:26 +0000

Terry’s Berries: Personal

Joshua Mahar — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:38:20 +0000

Back when this crazy month of October got started Sarah and Ains and I went down to a local farm to sign up for a CSA and we got to tool around the farm. Honestly, my mind was blown. I haven’t gotten much of a chance to make it out and shoot nature or landscape much this summer, so to find myself on a farm, with amazing light, ducks, chicks, cider pressing, and gorgeous flowers, was almost too much for me to contain. I took a lot of pictures that day. Also, we bought a $10 jug of fresh cider. Now, normally this would be way cheaper, but since we were not summer share members we paid full price. Lets be honest here: if we are willing to pay $10 on a decent bottle of wine, there’s no reason not to spend the same on a gallon of cider. Here’s the kicker…it was better than wine!!! I haven’t had anything like it. I have been seriously interested in cider since we lived out in Massachusetts, but I have never had it “just pressed.” Its like fresh corn in that it is so much better right away than if you wait. In fact it was better the first few hours than it was the next day. If you have never had freshly pressed cider you don’t know what you are missing. If presented with the opportunity to pay $10 for a gallon of fresh press cider, then jump on it: your life will never be the same. Oh…and I suppose I should post some pictures to this huh? Cheers.

Personal Update

Joshua Mahar — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:39:52 +0000

Hey all. First, I want to thank everyone who has come by my blog recently. Thanks for viewing my work! If you are so inclined, I’d love to hear from you, so please don’t hesitate to leave a comment.

The update: HOLY COW. I have been crazy slammed with work, which is both such a blessing, but it also means that a lot of my online activities such as blogging and social networking have gone by the wayside. To give you an idea of life this month, Gabe Van Wyhe and myself will be shooting 4 weddings this month, starting tomorrow at noon. Throw into this mix several client meetings, engagement photos, my birthday (Tuesday), and lots of family time, and you have a busy month. I have several weddings that I am eager to post about, along with some fantastic family shots (hope no one is bored of the family stuff: I certainly am not), but simply have had a massive pending workload. Below is a sample of a series of images that I took on a recent family trip down to a local farm to sign up for a CSA (community supported agriculture). They were having a harvest day, and I have shots from all over the farm that I am really stoked about. Expect more from me soon. Thanks again everyone!

Cheers