Voyage of Discovery

A friend of mine, Nona who I met at a photography workshop

with Tony Sweet last fall, headed out to visit Seattle last week.

We met up with another of Nona's friends and wandered over

to Discovery Park looking for some sunset photo opportunities

overlooking the Puget Sound.

Discovery Park is right smack dab in the middle of Magnolia, no

more than a ten-minute drive from where I live in Queen Anne.

Exotic it is not.

That does not mean that there are no photo opportunities there, of course;

you just have to learn to have new eyes.

Photography Books

I have signed up to do SoFoBoMo 2009. For more information on it, look at:

http://sofobomo.org/2009 and for my specific page, http://sofobomo.org/2009/books/RakeshMalik/

During the February ArtWalk in Pioneer Square, I showed my prints to the folks at the National Parks Conservation Association (http://www.npca.org/northwest/) and they liked them enough that we started discussing the possibility showing my work there in fall. They interested in a show focussed on Mount Saint Helens, because they are working to raise interest in getting Mount Saint Helens promote from the status of National Volcanic Monument to National Park, to improve its budget and to provide more protection for its environment.

So when I spoke about this with the friend who is helping me design my web site, he suggested also writing a book about it. Since I thought that was a good idea, I mentioned it to the NPCA folks, and it seems that they might be interested in helping me out with it. So I'm going to work on putting together a book about Mount Saint Helens this year.

The photograph above is one that I took tonight at Golden Gardens Park near sunset.

My FIrst Print is UP!

Although this image is not new, the print is. Neal Buckland at

www.mimeosquare.com printed it for me on canvas at 42x50 inches,

coated it, and had it stretched onto a frame for display.

It's now hanging at Energy Espresso in Ballard, and it looks

quite impressive, better than I had anticipated.

It was expensive, but hopefully someone will like

the results enough to buy it :)