🥳 Another new year is here! 🥳
TIAA #45: “We’re Gonna TikTok-Tok ’til Broad Daylight”
This is a tale about a popular city park and the app that is TikTok.
TIAA #44: “Siblings Synchronize!”
This is a tale about leaping back and forth in time, frozen in mid-leap.
TIAA #43: “Slanted”
This is a "slanted" tale.
All Hallows Eve in the Emerald City
Enjoy a spooky and entertaining two-minute video to mark the occasion.
TIAA #32: “A Gleam of Golden Light”
This is a tale about catching the light and sharing the light. (It's also about life being a long-time adventure).
TIAA #29: “Five Months & Five Days”
This is a tale about not delving too deeply into emotional empathy ad infinitum. It always catches up with you.
TIAA #27: “The Helpless Animal & Useless Photographer”
This is a tale about the time I had felt completely useless and impotent as a photographer.
An American Anniversary Ritual Returns to the Emerald City
Celebrating Independence Day has returned to Seattle!
TIAA #25: “Et Jamais Ne Revient”
This is a tale about never returning to life as we knew it in January 2020.
TIAA #21: “Going Back to My Roots”
This is a tale about sharing an image that I wanted to share two months ago!
TIAA #14: “Reality is Relative”
This is a tale about the week I've had interacting with different people (mostly in person, this time) and what I learned.
TIAA #8: “United with Ukraine”
This is a tale about my first (and so far, only) photo assignment pertaining to Ukraine.
TIAA #7: “My Dream of Diplomacy”
This is a tale about the path I might have taken if TIA International Photography never existed -- the path I originally and aggressively pursued.
Hello Seattle. It’s Been Fog Too Long.
TIA invites you to view how foggy weather transforms the Emerald City into an otherworldly realm of eccentric mystery and eerie intrigue.
“My Park Moment” Photo Exhibit
The "My Park Moment" photography contest turned out to be one of the most atypical and memorable competitions TIA has ever entered. Find out why!
An Impromptu Excursion to Easton in Autumn
Enjoy some images of the fall foliage from Easton Ponds in autumn! / Easton, Washington
The Land in the Lullaby
Please enjoy a timelapse video that I executed on Sunday, April 25th, at the vantage located at 5th & Lynn Park in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle. From this stellar viewpoint on a clear day, you can see five different neighborhoods of the city simultaneously -- in addition to the colossal, jagged summits of... Continue Reading →
Caught in a Seattle Timelapse
In 2021, I have finally been able to engage with the objective I set for myself last year -- developing and solidifying my skills in timelapse photography! As time-consuming as this engrossing venture is, timelapse photograpy is really a lot of fun. Similar to when I first delved into night photography over a decade ago,... Continue Reading →
Sleepy Saturday Morning in Seattle
During the weekend of March 27th, I decided to revive my objectives for creating timelapse photography videos. It was a primary objective in 2020, but the pandemic struck the planet, and my objective was no longer a priority. A year later, I would like to resume my quest to add timelapse videos to my skillset... Continue Reading →
“Capital” vs. “Capitol”: The Difference
On the sixth day of 2021, a previously inconceivable abomination occurred in Washington, D.C. A conspired insurrection and coordinated siege of the United States Capitol building by a right-wing mob of white supremacists, incited by the President, took place in a deliberate attempt to disrupt and abort the U.S. Congress' electoral certification of President-elect Joe... Continue Reading →
S.T.O.M.P. / Chapter 1: “Weekend at Boise’s”
"Satirical Tales of a Moody Photographer" (or "S.T.O.M.P.") is a new series for La Vue Atypique which shares amusing (and sometimes enlightening) anecdotes from my career as a professional photographer.
TIA’s Adventures in “Photocycling” / Chapter Four (The Fall Edition)
TIA takes you on a kaleidoscopic journey through Seattle during the autumn season in which you can admire and enjoy the multiple colors -- especially yellow -- of the season. An entertaining timelapse video also awaits your viewing!
TIA’s Adventures in “Photocycling” / Chapter Three
In this chapter, TIA delves into a combination of travel and street photography, thus sharing many images featuring everyday people in and around Seattle.
TIA’s Adventures in “Photocycling” / Chapter One
"Photocycling" is the art of capturing images of different subject matters while cycling.
Seattle, The One & The Only (Factoid #1)
SEATTLE FACTOID #1 There is only one “Seattle” on the planet. No other city or town in the world shares its name. Downtown Seattle Illuminated / Purchase Downtown Seattle, Spring Evening / Purchase Core of Downtown Seattle featuring the new Rainier Square Tower (right) / Purchase Broad Street Blues, Belltown / Purchase Click here to... Continue Reading →
Adieu Été, Sayonara Summer
Another sumptuous summer in Seattle has concluded. Seahurst Park, Burien, Washington. I have lived in Seattle for seven and a half years, and it feels like each summer season is better than the previous. It’s a city where it never gets too humid, there’s plenty of sunshine, and the grey skies that seem to threaten... Continue Reading →
What is TIA International Photography Anyway?
If it was previously unclear what TIA’s services were and how we can provide photography for your business needs and projects, this entertaining video demystifies any uncertainties or misconceptions! LOCATION TIA International Photography is headquartered in the industrious city of Seattle, Washington, in the United States, where inspirational and captivating images are abundant. FOCUS TIA’s... Continue Reading →
Timelapsin’ 2009 to 2014
After plenty of research and a few experiments, I have put together my first “real” time-lapse video. I recently purchased a wireless intervalometer and have been experimenting with some time-lapse photography! I call it the “first real time-lapse” because I discovered in my research that I was not compiling the exposures properly in previous videos!... Continue Reading →
Happy New Year & Best Wishes for 2013
Seattle Welcomes the Year 2013 Cracklin’ into 2013 - Seattle Style Blazin’ Needle TIA International Photography would like to extend its warmest wishes of Joy, Happiness, Success, Prosperity, and Good Health to you and your families in the New Year. I’m going to challenge myself to make at least three postings every month on this... Continue Reading →