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Photo of the Day — Snow-dusted Mount Si

Snow-dusted Mount Si

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Photo of the Day — Beads of Water

It’s the little things.

The great — and sometimes tiresome — thing about being a photographer is that you always have your gear with you. That is, if you have developed good habits. My camera-toting habit formed near the end of college, while working for the Bellingham Herald, under the supervision of a well-known photo editor — Russ Kendall.

He encouraged me to take my camera everywhere. After all, being a good photojournalist is more a lifestyle than a job. The first full day I carried my camera everywhere, a fire broke out in downtown Bellingham. I was the first one on the scene and the paper ran my photos online for the breaking news.  That advice — and subsequent affirming experience — led me to capture many a nice moment or obscure aspect of life.

Beads of water accumulate on a blade of grass during a rainy Juneau day.

Beads of water accumulate on a blade of grass during a rainy Juneau day.

This was one of those images I wasn’t really looking for, but because I had my gear with me as I rode my bike home from work on that rainy Juneau day, I captured water droplets accumulating on a thin blade of grass.

As my wife says often: “80 percent of life is just showing up.” Eighty percent of being a photographer is just having your camera with you, prepared for unexpected opportunities.

— C