Lord knows I love attention. So needless to say I freaked out when I saw that Robby Followell updated his website and we had 2 photos (one of us, one of our rings) from our wedding, I was happy.

Robby’s photos in general have made such a splash around the interwebs that some friends of ours in Seattle are talking to him about their wedding in Spring 2011.

Updated photo site. Completely forgotten about this photo until digging through files over the weekend.

My better half recently joined the club and started selling her photos on Etsy: chelseadossett.etsy.com

Folks have inquired about purchasing photos I take. I never take pictures with the thought of ever selling them, but Seattle’s an expensive city to live in, so I thoughtwhattheheckwhynot?

LandonHowellPhotography is a site I have owned for a while now in the case that I ever decided to sell anything. Now I’ve made them publicly available for sale on Etsy.

Thus far 23 photos have been posted and 5 have been sold… it freaks me out that 4 of those hang in homes of people I’ve never met. Elizabeth Barge (college buddy and blog read) purchased another last week after inquiring about obtaining one that wasn’t posted. So know that any are available for purchase if they ever catch your eye.

If you ever have any questions about photos or obtaining one you’ve seen, feel free to contact me.

{ By the way: Some of you have asked about the book that was to be released a few months back. Long story short: the book was complete, my laptop was stolen, I didn’t have a back-up copy. Yikes. }

…and one of my personal favorites…

I’ve had a few folks email me over the past few weeks about camera recommendations. I’ spare the long-winded suggestions and give you the short-n-sweet version.

When it comes to top of the line camers (yes Sony and others produce high-qulity cameras) the top two players in the market are Cannon and Nikon. Both produce quality products and both have comperable models. Talk to any professional and they will recommend either, though they will swear by one. They will usually swear by the one they started with (ie – the one most accustomed to).

I swear by Nikon… my first great camera experience.

It’s pretty simple… pick one and I promise (promise) you will never regret it.

Stumbled across a photo I took of the old gym at Walker High School a few days ago. Took it last Christmas. Wonder when they’ll ever tear that old thing down.

(I hope never.)

Katy (Gambrell) Burns posted this old-school shot on Facebook from back in the days of our childhood. If anyone can name every face in this picture, I’ll give you a high five.

(Bonus points if you can guess the hand/backofthehead in the lower left-hand corner.)

We went on a day trip to Vancouver last Saturday.

I haven’t thrown up any photos in a while. I’ll try to take some shots in Jasper over the weekend, but for now here’s a few from the last few months — some you have seen before, some you haven’t.

Wonderful photos from The Library of Congress uploaded on Flickr. Survivors of the Titanic.

Thanks to Seattlest for making one of my old photos the picture of the day.

Hope you had a grand Memorial Day weekend.

The photo is one of the early bloomers at the world renown International Rose Test Garden in Portland, Oregon.

We took a 2-day trip to Oregon, spending a day in Portland, driving through Oregon wine country to visit the vineyard of one of our favorite Pinot Noirs, and made it back Monday night in time for the Mariners-Red Sox game.

I’d be interested to hear on any interesting things in your realm as well.

Troy T Coburn. Never heard of him until last night.

Photos.Amazing.

We took a ferry boat ride over to Bainbridge Island the other day to eat lunch and go to a vineyard.

Taken last weekend; overlooking Elliot Bay, just down the street from my house.

When my dear friend David Ash (and by ‘dear friend’, I simply mean that I wanna be his pal when he’s elected governor of Mississippi) asked me a few months ago if I’d photograph his December wedding, I was a little taken back, because… well this photo crap is just for fun. I’ve never been paid a dime for any of my work that was published or recognized. Plus, photographing London at my leisure and documenting the most important day of someone life are two completely different things.

Both David and Susannah were incredibly gracious. They wanted candid, fly-on-the-wall photos that were more of a photo journalism-esque take on the day without all the “hey guys – light the Unity Candle and turn towards me and smile” moments. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that… but.)

Basically everything you see was them simply being themselves… no cheesy or posed, cliché photos. It was freakin’ fun.

And while I took over 2,000 photos (yes, 2K – don’t know what I was thinking) I’ll spare your eyes the focus and my website the bandwidth through only posting a select few below.

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These are some of the most beautiful night shots I’ve ever seen of any major city.

Here are the rest of my pics from London. I’m sure I’ll find a few more straggling around. For now you can find all these and more in London08.