Jason Buscema

Golden Gardens – Shilshole Bay – Seattle, WA

Last month we were in Seattle visiting family and attending and shooting a cousin’s wedding. The wedding ceremony was at Golden Gardens (Shilshole Bay) just NW of downtown Seattle and right on the Puget Sound. I hadn’t been to Golden Gardens since my college days at Seattle Pacific University and needed some time to scout a few possible photo opp locations for the happy couple. I actually wanted to get a photo with the couple on the train tracks but decided against it for various reasons.

The trains run pretty slow but I didn’t want to be the one responsible for killing the couple on their first day of marriage, especially since they are family… Emily’s family. Not such a good idea right?

In my travels to find an easy way onto the train tracks for a possible shot, I wandered through the pedestrian tunnel under the train tracks and found what I thought to be some pretty cool looking graffiti. I especially liked the colors, the blue mushroom and the frog troll prince guy. I ended up using this graffiti train tunnel as a backdrop for one of the wedding photos which I will post later.

Seattle is home to some very cool and very funky people who produce some very cool and very funky art. It makes for a fantastic place to shoot in addition to the scenery of course… well, when its not raining.

Enjoy!

This past weekend we took the boys to two different parks on two different days. That’s big time in our household! On Sunday we went to the park up the street from our house and Isaac had free reign of the play structure. I just got my Canon 5D Mark II camera and figured this would be a good time to test out the HD video capabilities the camera possesses. I’ll tell you, it’s not super intuitive like you may expect from Canon.

This video was shot obviously using the Canon 5D Mark II camera and the 70-200 2.8 non IS L series lens. Sorry for the shaky video. I wonder if a IS lens would work in video mode? 

This is one of my very first test videos taken w/ the Canon 5D Mark II camera and the Canon 15mm fisheye lens. It’s a little interesting shooting video with the camera but hopefully with some practice I’ll figure it out. I must admit I had to break out the manual to figure out how to do it which isn’t a good sign for starters. I need to spend some time and read up about if it’s possible to auto-focus during the recording of a video. My guess is no.