Steps taken forward...

Cross posted from Through the Shutter.

The year has less than a week left to live so I thought I would do some looking back at a few of the many photos I've shot this year. I've got a lot to choose from and in some cases, the choice what to take was really kind of difficult. Without any further delay, here are my favorite photos from 2010.

It seems only appropriate to begin this post with one of the first photos I took of 2010. The place is the Edison in downtown Los Angeles. The date was January 1st at 1:10 am in the morning. The event was the Nautilist's Ball featuring Abney Park. One of the things that I love about shooting a live performance are those moments that just happen to occur and you're there to catch that candid moment. This particular moment Onyx AbodyOfWater, a tribal fusion belly dancer, was dancing to Airship Pirate, if I remember correctly. This is not only one of my favorite shots of her, but one of my favorites from the evening as whole.

Note: This is a cross-post from Through the Shutter

On May 8th, 2010, a large collection of steampunks descended on the Museum Of History And Industry (MOHAI) in Seattle, Washington, with the sole purpose of raising funds to help fix the Carrols Clock. On December 26th, 2009, vandals stole the clock's inner workings and brass pendulum. Initial estimates placed the repair work for the 97 year old clock at $10,000.

Ericka sent an e-mail to the Seattle Steamrats Google Group detailing the results of these efforts:[more]

I'm overwhelmed by the success of this Saturday's fund raisers, Steampunk University and the Seattle Steampunk Film Festival.  It all started on *this* discussion group with the first post about the clockwork theft back in late Dec.  And we all stepped up as a community to make this fund raiser happen.

I am so grateful to our big donors: Steamcon, Studio Foglio, Renovation SciFi Convention, and Steambaby.  But I'm also blown away at the number of smaller donations that poured out from so many!  We never imaged we'd have so many goodies for our silent auction  It really touched my heart to see how people just stepped up to chip in (and dress up for a party!)  And to all of the volunteers.  So many people helping out on so many levels.  And we did it!  We raised enough to restore the clock!

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Oh, and the folks at MOHAI love you too!  The exact subject line of the email we got this morning was "THANK YOU!!!!! I heart Steampunk!"

from MOHAI's fund raising coordinator.  I think we've left a mark on the museum in more ways than one.  (They know carry Boneshaker in their gift shop.)