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Seattle-based Commercial Photographer specializing in luminous imagery of products, food, people, dance, & fashion. All images & content © Bret Doss
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Posts from the ‘Personal’ category

As promised in the Calla Lily #1 post, here is the next a series of calla lily images. For this, I had a concept in mind beyond a ‘straightforward’ image of a lily.  I was surprised to find black calla lilies — I didn’t know they even…

Calla Lily #2: The Black Calla

May 11, 2016

The constraint was at once simple and complex: anything I wanted to do, as long as it contained a single red balloon.  Freedom to be creative, with a single requirement.  Sometimes that much leeway can make things more difficult, as narrowing down to something specific means…

One Red Balloon

April 24, 2016

I’m strange. I know this. I like cloudy days, dramatic skies, and rain. Yes, I said I like rain. Actually, I love rain. I lived in the Arizona desert for twenty-five years and, even after ten years here in Seattle, I still find myself excited…

Gulls, Clouds, & Turbulence: Summer’s End in Seattle

September 8, 2015

Photographing any Coriolis Dance performance is always exhilarating.  In the uniquely private, personal view thru my lens, the dancers, choreography, & music take me to a place of transcendence, connection: a flow of energy occurs, and I become fully aware of only what is in the viewfinder, anticipating,…

Coriolis Dance: Threaded Cosmos

August 31, 2015

I enjoy a good hair toss/spin/flip image. It’s not because I am as bald as an envious egg– probably. It’s not because at one time in the distant past I coulda done some of this my own self — probably. It’s not because, even if…

Hair Toss

August 30, 2015

  Looking deeper changes everything. Oftentimes, I will either use an older, fully manual focus lens or set my modern lens to manual focus.  Standing still, eye to the viewfinder and slowly adjusting focus from near to far, far to near, releasing the shutter at every point…

Choosing Focus

August 28, 2015

I was fortunate to have an opportunity to visit the Phoenix area earlier this year (in February, the cooler time of the year there). I lived in Phoenix before relocating to the Pacific Northwest. On those occasions I do get to return, I enjoy seeing…

Agave

August 26, 2015

When clients, guests, models, friends are coming to the studio for a shoot or meeting, I like to have some fresh flowering plants at the front door to greet them. I head over to the nursery and see what is seasonally available. Recently, I saw…

Fuschia

August 22, 2015

 Short post this week: had an opportunity to visit with a good friend over lunch in downtown Seattle. We walked about a bit, talked a lot, and I had my camera with me (naturally). The sky was beautiful and the light was wonderful.    …

Seattle Reflections

July 10, 2013

My longtime friend Tom (since we were six years old, third house down across the street) was passing through my area on a driving vacation.  His stopover here gave us the time to get caught up on the happenings in the past nine or ten…

Fourth of July Walkabout

July 7, 2013

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