Photo Walk with Chase Jarvis and Robert Scoble

7 days ago I drove up to Seattle, WA after work. I was drawn there by a Twitter invitation from Chase Jarvis to join him and Robert Scoble for a morning photo walk. The post said something to the affect of, "If you're tough enough to be at my studio at 7am on Friday, Robert and I are going to talk cameras and coffee." Not a direct quote but a pretty close paraphrase. I even sound like a huge dork on the video Chase made throughout the morning.

Here is a photo I snapped during the walk: (Scoble behind the lens and Jarvis on the phone)

I rolled in around 11:15pm and slept in my truck a few blocks from Chase's studio in a nice, quiet and dark neighborhood. Got up early and got took this with my iPhone of the Wollingford Steps:

Part of the walk was through Gas Works Park on Lake Union. The park offers really nice views of downtown Seattle and the Space Needle:

And because Chase is awesome, after the walk we all headed back to his studio where he did a Q&A for about 45 minutes before he had to return to his business as a working professional photographer:


There are some more photos from the morning in my Fotki albums.

Seattle - passive aggressive?

Last year we were in Seattle and in my walking around in the downtown areas, i happened past this little sidewalk embedded marker:



I don't remember which office building it was in front of, but it gave me the impression of being invited over to friends house when your kids to play. One minute things are going great and the next it is time for you to leave, because you offended your friend's limited 6-year old sensibilities.

So one day, some Seattle folks are going to be walking to work - down this sidewalk like they always do M-F and on this Tuesday in the future - some guy is going to be standing behind that little triangle enforcing its threat.

Silly, eh?

Side note: Is only the area of the triangle covered in the threat?