Ward W. Vuillemot
Photography, sans a minor introduction by my father back in the day of film with his Canon A1, is mostly a recent phenomenon. I have discovered the use of a lens as a means to…
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Where a gallery came from, when there is something worth saying about it beyond the photographs themselves.
Nothing matches that.
Lowell Observatory
I visited Lowell Observatory for a second-time from May 21 to 23, 2012 on a paid tour of their facilities. Lowell's campus in Flagstaff, Arizona is of historical significance as…
Portfolio
Words: fundamentally, inherently, diametrically opposite to why I create photographs. Words are not sufficient to capture what needs expressing. Words are useless—even verboten—to…
Woodland Park Zoo
Today was not a particularly bright day with a lot of overcast clouds. Nevertheless, I thought I might try a few pictures at the zoo. I was only able to salvage a few of them.
Skaneateles, New York
My parents and I moved to Skaneateles, NY back in June of 1985 where my father took a job at <a href="http://www.welchallyn.com/">Welch Allyn</a>. I lived there till summer of…
Greenlake
Greenlake is just one of those idyllic places one can go within Seattle to find the perfect stroll, enjoy watching kids run through the wading pool or grab a coffee and walk…
Johnson Space Center
<a href="http://word.wardosworld.com/?p=1098">Read more</a> on my reflections of visiting Johnson Space Center after <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/connect/social/index.html">NASA…
Seattle
I really do heart Seattle something fierce. The longer I live here (14 years as of 2012) the more I come to truly appreciate how much this area has in natural beauty and culture…
Volunteer Park
Volunteer Park is located north of Capital Hill and was once a major water resevior for the city. It now is the home to Seattle's Asian Art Museum, Seattle Conservatory and hosts…
Whidbey Island
Read more <a href="http://word.wardosworld.com/?p=756">here</a>. See <a href="https://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2077745&id=1122354236&fbid=1611098873675">more photographs</a>…
Flower House
On my way to and from Lake Forest Park's <a href="http://www.thirdplacebooks.com/">Third Place Books</a> there is a little home nestled in among a garden overflowing with flowers…
Cafes
It may very well be that I have traded the hoppy fermentation of beer, bier and bierre for its caffeinated sibling, but never have I been happier than I am in cafes drinking my…
Downtown Seattle
Seattle's downtown is primarily a place of businesses; it sadly lacks much of a soul beyond the simple 9-to-5- grind of commerce. While there have been attempts to bring…
Discovery Channel Telescope
As a part of my tour of <a href="http://pics.wardosworld.com/Astronomy/Lowell-Observatory">Lowell Observatory</a>, I visited the <a href="http://www.lowell.edu/dct.php">Discovery…
Seattleites
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/SeattleFans">Seattleites</a> is a Facebook site about my favorite of places: Seattle. If you heart this place as much as I do give the page a…
Anderson Mesa Station
On the second day of my tour of <a href="http://pics.wardosworld.com/Astronomy/Lowell-Observatory">Lowell Observatory</a>, I visited their professional facilities out on Anderson…
May 20 2012 Annular Solar Eclipse
I watched the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_May_20,_2012">May 20, 2012 annular solar eclipse</a> from just outside <a…
Gas Works Park
Seattle's Gas Works Park is sadly a place many tourists miss but should not. It is one of the best places to watch both the Sun come and go down over our city. Here you will find…
Bellevue Botanical Garden
This is a little gem of a place in Bellevue just south of Main Street on the east-side of 405. It is in many ways a ridiculous volunteer's garden given it includes computer kiosks…
Edmonds, WA
Edmonds, WA is a just a hop and skip away from my home. It is one of those great get-away spots just north of Seattle with all the charm that one comes to expect when exploring…
Piers
The piers of Seattle are a great place to head whe the sun is out both in terms of people watching and catching a glimpse of both Mount Rainier to the south and Olympic Mountains…
Pike Place Market
While Seattle's Space Needle is more uniquely identifiable to outsiders, Pike Place Market is the real epicenter to downtown Seattle for tourists and Seattle-ites alike.
Mount Rainier
Mount Rainier is but one of many volcanos along the Pacific coast that starts far north into Canada extending south in Oregon. I saw this nearly every morning of the seven years…
LIGO
I have always wanted to tour some of the world's cutting-edge research centers and LIGO is certainly one of them. <a href="http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/">LIGO (Laser Interferometer…
Parents Visit in 1993
While I was living in Kanazawa, Japan as an exchange student from 1992 to 1993 both my parents came to visit for two-weeks. I arrived in Kanazawa weighing at some 300 pounds. I…
Rat City Rollergirls
How can you not love a bunch of women who put their hearts, their souls and their elbows (metaphorically speaking) into their sport. If you ever want to see a sport played with…
Sonoma Valley
I drove up along Highway 101 through Sonoma Valley before heading over the ridge into Calistoga in Napa Valley. Along the way I stopped in at Kunde Family Estate for a wine…
San Francisco Peninsula
When I had thought of San Francisco Peninsula I once thought it filled with concrete and steel and people and pavement and rubber and all those things that come with a large…
Third Place Books
<a href="http://www.thirdplacebooks.com/">Third Place Books</a> lives up to its name; it as much a place away from home as it is a business. When I moved to Seattle back in 1998…
Cafe Solstice Exhibit
I will be exhibiting my photographs at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cafe-Solstice/127965500586156">Cafe Solstice</a> on University Avenue next to the University of…
Kingston, WA
We finally had a bit more sun today in the Pacific Northwest. I took the opportunity to spend the afternoon in Kingston, WA. I had originally planned on driving through the <a…
Dubai
Dubai: city defying nature; city defying description; city defying itself. Dubai is maybe unlike nearly any other city in the world, or even I daresay the world's history. It is…
Athens
Greece, birthplace of Western civilization. Greece which introduced in more full-form more than anywhere else the idea of Democracy and Rational thought, where Man not God…
Firenze
Firenze (Florence) is considered the birth place of the Renaissance. Like all of history some liberties are likely taken with assigning the start of any movement, intellectual or…
Napoli
Napoli, if described by Tolstoy, might be "It is a city you love. It is a city you hate." Napoli is the heart of southern Italy, a place that brings together the intensity of its…
Pompeii
Pompeii is legendary for the city obliterated in the early mornings of 79 BC by an erupting Mount Vesuvius. While many of us have seen the plaster-casts of people trapped under…
Matera
Matera is hard to capture in photos. It truly is a city of stone; a place of rock. So much of it is just the enormity and collision of stone, rock, light and shadow all at once…
Idalou, Texas
Idalou, Texas is located near Lubbock, Texas which is home to Texas Tech. It is a small town of approximately 3,000 people. But like anywhere in Texas it is filled with people big…
Roma
Rome. The capital of Italy for the past 140 years. Arguably the epicenter of much of what we now attribute to Western-style governments. Our forefathers of the United States of…
Trani
Trani is a seaport city situated along the Adriatic Sea in the region known as both Apulia and Puglia. It is a small city that is easily accessible by foot. At its heart is a city…
INSCAPE
Seattle's former INS (Immigrations & Naturalization Services) building, built in 1931, is situated just south of Uwajimaya in the International District. Some months ago is…
Out Like Pluto
<a href="http://www.outlikepluto.com">Out Like Pluto</a>, a band peopled by three co-workers from Amazon and one Amazonian who is as smoking as her voice. Once known as <b>The…
San Diego Zoo
San Diego Zoo is an amazing place to visit — assuming zoos are your thing. If you have the time then ideally a few days is required to see it all giving everything its proper due…
Butchart Garden, Victoria BC
A visit to Victoria on Vancouver Island is not complete without also a visit to Butchart Garden. I visited in late August of 2010, arriving in Victoria on an uncharacteristically…
Sydney
Australia is an immense continent on the other wisde of the world. It is a combination of both the familiar and strange. Sydney is in all ways as cosmopolitan to other cities…
京都知恩院
Kyoto's Chion Temple is connected to Hounen who founded the Pure Land Sect. The site, considered a national treasure, was under major rennovation when I visited in April of 2010.
Experience Music Project
Experience Music Project lies in the shadow of Seattle's Space Needle. It here is can come up close and personal to one's vision of what Jimi Hendrix's guitar had melted and…
Golden Gate Bridge
Unbeknownst to me I visit San Francisco iconic bridge on an uncharacteristically sunny day. I have been told I may have one of the few pictures of its shadow in existence…
京都鴨川公園
Kyoto's Kamogawa Park is situated in the eastern half of the old city running north to south. Along the park are pedestrian areas with cherry blossoms all along the way. It is a…
金沢城
Kanazawa Castle has been reborn since I last lived in Kanazawa back in 1995-96. In 1992 it still housed a part of Kanazawa University and was basically gutted of most of its…
金沢兼六園
Kanazawa's <a href="http://www.pref.ishikawa.jp/siro-niwa/kenrokuen/e/index.html">Kenrokuen</a> is one of three gardens in Japan that are considered to be the best examples of…
京都高台寺
Koudai Temple is one those understated gems of Kyoto. From the exterior it looks much like any other of the hundreds of historical sites found within the city; however, upon entry…
京都御所
Kyoto's Royal Palace is a place to behold. I was fortunate enough to stay right outside one of the entrances allowing me a spectacular amount of ready access to roam the grounds.
京都円山公園
Maruyama Park in Kyoto is argubly the legendary epicenter of cherry blossom viewing in this legendary city. My own experience was slightly marred by the garbage left from the…
名古屋城
Nagoya Castle is a great example of history kept alive and beautiful. It is a gorgeous site to walk through both the external walls and moats and the interior of the castle…
金沢市尾山神社
I visited Oyama (Mountain Tail) Shrine on my last day in Kanazawa. Visited this shrine weekly, if not daily, when I lived in Japan from 1992-1993. Situated in the middle of…
Pioneer Square Totem Pole
Even though the weather has been less than cooperative the last couple of days, the sun did come out a bit in the late morning and early afternoon. Taking pictures of Pike Place…
京都清水寺
Kyoto's Seisui Temple is an obvious point of interest to any tourist visiting the city for its lush grounds, striking architecture and sheer size. It is hard to fathom how much…
Shilshole Marina
I spent an hour at the marina on Shilshole bay just south of Golden Garden Park.<br><br> Given that people were barbecuing up food at the park nearby I somewhat regretted going…
名古屋徳川園
Nagoya's Tokugawa Garden is definitely worth a visit for those looking to combine a great historical musuem along with an excellent garden. I particularly enjoyed just sitting…
名古屋山崎川
Nagoya's <a href="http://www.city.nagoya.jp/ku/mizuho/machi/nagoya00042001.html">Yamasaki River</a> is considered one of the top 100 places in Japan to view cherry blossoms. It…