{"id":2713,"date":"2004-08-02T05:08:18","date_gmt":"2004-08-02T19:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/02\/ballard-locks-photo-workshop\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T07:40:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:40:20","slug":"ballard-locks-photo-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/08\/02\/ballard-locks-photo-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballard Locks Photo Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10470,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.hanscomfamily.com\\\/gallery\\\/ballardphotos&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20051126121524\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.hanscomfamily.com:80\\\/gallery\\\/ballardphotos&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 05:38:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 05:38:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10471,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.blueneedle.com\\\/wordpress\\\/archives\\\/2004\\\/08\\\/02\\\/todays-ballard-locks-photo-shoot&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10472,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blog.donnael.com\\\/2004\\\/08\\\/taking-pictures-at-locks.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20081120183102\\\/http:\\\/\\\/blog.donnael.com\\\/2004\\\/08\\\/taking-pictures-at-locks.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 05:38:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 14:19:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 14:19:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10473,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.justlaura.com\\\/2004_08_01_oldblogs.html#109139933377826936&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20081119082022\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.justlaura.com\\\/2004_08_01_oldblogs.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 05:38:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 14:19:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 14:19:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10474,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/realtegan.blogspot.com\\\/2004\\\/08\\\/ballard-locks-photo-workshop.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>So yesterday was the big photo gathering at the Locks. Prairie and I picked up her sister Hope and then headed out, eventually getting there about an hour into the event. As I&#8217;d never been to the Locks before, I wasn&#8217;t entirely sure where to go at first, so we just started following the paths and wandering around. It wasn&#8217;t long before we stumbled across a fairly large group with a higher-than-average ratio of cameras&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/08\/graphics\/locksphotographers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/08\/graphics\/locksphotographers-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Photographers at the Locks\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Myk spotted me when I wandered in and we spent a few minutes chatting, idly wondering what could potentially get him into more trouble with Homeland Security: organizing the event, or taking a wild leap into the water in an attempt to escape should anyone try to arrest him. Of course, nothing along those lines happened, and the day was quite nice, just a lot of people gathered to talk and look for some decent shots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/08\/graphics\/blpws-coolcamera.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/08\/graphics\/blpws-coolcamera-tm.jpg\" height=\"119\" width=\"150\" alt=\"A nice medium-format camera\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many photos were taken by everyone, of the Locks, boats, and &#8212; of course &#8212; all the other photographers. A representative from the ACLU was there (complete with an old 110 pocket camera, which I hadn&#8217;t seen in years), along with a photographer from the Seattle P-I, some people who&#8217;d read about the event in the Stranger, and many who&#8217;d read about it online. I&#8217;m afraid I didn&#8217;t end up meeting very many of the people who were there, but seeing the turnout was great.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/08\/graphics\/blpws-wavesculpture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/08\/graphics\/blpws-wavesculpture-tm.jpg\" height=\"148\" width=\"119\" alt=\"Wave Sculpture\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After milling with the crowd for a while, Prairie, Hope and I decided to go wandering around the area for a bit and see what all was there. There were a fair amount of activities going on in addition to the photographer&#8217;s gathering, including a flower show, a band playing on the grass, and many tourists wandering around the grounds. Prime people-watching, in other words, which we took full advantage of.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/08\/graphics\/blpws-fishladder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/08\/graphics\/blpws-fishladder-tm.jpg\" height=\"148\" width=\"119\" alt=\"Children at the Fish Ladder\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were a couple of attempts at group photos during the gathering, one of which I was around for, but I think I missed a later one set up by the P-I photographer. Still, at one point he made sure to come by and get my name, so I suppose I must have made it into one or another of his shots. Who knows, maybe I&#8217;ll have another appearance in a local paper sometime this week? It&#8217;s getting hard to keep track of all my press&#8230;;)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, all things considered, it was a very pleasant time, and many thanks to Myk for organizing the event. There are rumbles of a similar workshop day being set up at some point later on from a different vantage point (after it was pointed out that Ian was taking his photos from Commodore Park, rather than on the Locks themselves). Should that come through, I&#8217;ll definitely see what I can do to attend that one, also.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve uploaded the majority of the photos I took yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanscomfamily.com\/gallery\/ballardphotos\" title=\"Ballard Locks Photographer's Workshop\">to my gallery<\/a>, as always.<\/p>\n<p>Other writeups and photo collections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Myk: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueneedle.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/08\/02\/todays-ballard-locks-photo-shoot\/\" title=\"Life, it is a travesty: Today's Ballard Locks Photo Shoot\">Life, it is a travesty: Today&#8217;s Ballard Locks Photo Shoot<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Garrett: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.donnael.com\/2004\/08\/taking-pictures-at-locks.html\" title=\"Garrett Fitzgerald's Blog: Taking Pictures at the Locks\">Garrett Fitzgerald&#8217;s Blog: Taking Pictures at the Locks<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Laura: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justlaura.com\/2004_08_01_oldblogs.html#109139933377826936\" title=\"Photo protest\/workshop\">Just Laura: Photo protest\/workshop<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Laura: <a href=\"http:\/\/realtegan.blogspot.com\/2004\/08\/ballard-locks-photo-workshop.html\" title=\"Bloggity-Blog-Blog-Blog: Ballard Locks Photo Workshop\">Bloggity-Blog-Blog-Blog: Ballard Locks Photo Workshop<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;One Too Many Mornings&#8221; by Chemical Brothers, The from the album <em>Exit Planet Dust<\/em> (1995, 4:13).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So yesterday was the big photo gathering at the Locks. Prairie and I picked up her sister Hope and then headed out, eventually getting there about an hour into the event. As I&#8217;d never been to the Locks before, I wasn&#8217;t entirely sure where to go at first, so we just started following the paths and wandering around. It wasn&#8217;t long before we stumbled across a fairly large group with a higher-than-average ratio of cameras&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2050,2042],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-photography","category-politics","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}