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Victory, a moment of Loudness, and how I found my way back to the Seahawks…

elisa sherman — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 16:39:33 +0000

The Seahawks win Super Bowl XLVIII… …Wait, what? Yep, that’s right, we won. We won big. Huge. Jealous? LOL:) And shockingly(or not) I went out to spend a few hours in freezing temps among 700ish thousand(some say a million) fellow Seattlites, to celebrate and to click the joy of the fans, the team, and just soak it in…and scream – it was law, after all, at 12:12. For context, this was an interesting journey for me. I haven’t seriously watched football for oh, 14+ years, and if we’re being honest seriously since the 80’s. I had realized, as we waited 2 weeks for the Super Bowl, that I hadn’t followed the team at all or been familar with any player names since at least the 90’s…I hadn’t consciously given up on them. More, it was something I used to watch with my dad growing up. It was around 1980-82, when rather than go into the other room or playing somewhere else, I actually sat through an entire game and asked my dad questions about it…what was a 1st down, how did they score, etc. Otherwise it just looked like a bunch of big guys running into each other (right?)… When my dad passed in 2000, that touch point of sitting in the living room watching the games together, just wasn’t there anymore. I watched baseball, or went to concerts, or just did and watched other things. I hadn’t realized, until I thought about for a minute, why I had stopped watching. The current excitment, made me think back and wonder why, and the timing was inescapable. My sister captured our fond memories perfectly here –

“So, growing up in my house, every Sunday during football season, you’d be sure to find my dad sitting in his spot at the end of our rust-colored, sectional-recliner couch, yelling at the TV with a Lowenbrau or a Mountain Dew in his hand (or one, then the other) and a bag of nacho-flavored Doritos not too far away. Despite superstars like Steve Largent and Curt Warner, more often than not, things were not going well for the Seahawks. But still, he watched/yelled, and so we watched. This is one of my most enduring and cherished memories, trite as it may be. It’s why I’m so excited for today’s game. Go Seahawks!! — with Stella Sherman and Elisa Sherman.” ~Monique

Oddly, even our first unsuccessful run at the Super Bowl, didn’t penetrate, for me. I didn’t care, and barely paid attention. But something changed this year. It was some sort of odd unrecognizable energy in the air here in Seattle. Some will say it was the 12th man. Others, the Legion of Boom. I don’t know. I only know, that I started seeing these card board cut outs around the office of this guys head. I had to presume it was a Seahawk – with dreds, and sign saying Richard Sherman. Odd. Funny that a player basically had my dad’s name. Eventually, my curiousity and the news of the winning made me start turning on the games as filler while I would sit working on other things on Sundays. Then watching it seriously as the season, and the playoffs were becoming a reality. Ulitimately, caring if we had won enough to get the desired home field advantage. Clearly I was firmly back on the #bandwagon. With each playoff game, we believed. The NFC championship was almost unbelievable. To that final tip, I didn’t know what would happen, but it was like we couldn’t lose – and then, we didn’t. And it was the Super Bowl. Gathered around with friends and party food…we sat down to watch, the pregame, listen to all the commentators say how good the Seahawks were, but hey, Peyton would probably carry the Broncos to victory. Eye rolls all around. Then the game. And O.M.G. Now I know for those not Seahawks fans, it was probably the worse game ever; either boring or heartbreaking. But for Seattle – it was simple. It was euphoric. Screaming at every score, every interception, every run, every catch. It was both stunning yet completely unsurprising at some level, for those fans, the now famous 12th man, that had believed from the beginning. So, with the excitement not abating even after watching endless coverage post game, and basking in the afterglow for a few days, I donned my warmest layers, and worked my way to a good viewing spot just north of Westlake, north of the corner at 4th Ave and Stewart – and waited. Waited for an extra hour as the victory parade got a late start. Waited as my toes started screaming, and my fingertips icy. And then they were there, Mr. Skittles leading the charge, the party. And I clicked. Love you Seattle, Love you Seahawks. Love you Dad – this ones for you.

– and the full set of images –
Seahawks Super Bowl Victory Parade 2-5-2014 – Images by Elisa Sherman

Long Lost: Beach House frames from the 2010 Vampire Weekend show that didn’t happen…

elisa sherman — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:57:05 +0000

It was a what, 2 hour show? A show that never had a headliner, as the lead for Vampire Weekend lost his voice. But alas, we were treated to a couple quite good opening acts – first the Dum Dum Girls, then Beach House – they almost could have headlined in my opinion… For whatever reason, I never got to publishing this set…but heck, it was time to dig through the archives ~ enjoy!

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New Photos! The Dirty Heads on seeLOUDER.com

elisa sherman — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:16:00 +0000

http://seelouder.com/photos-the-dirty-heads-at-the-paramount-theatre-10-6-2010.html

Seattle says I DO – Pride 2009

elisa sherman — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:48:00 +0000

Pride…a celebration of love and acceptance…here and wide…in Seattle this past weekend the yearly ritual outing of the out, the fabulous and the so dramatic, there are no words…reached it’s crescendo on Sunday with the annual Gay Pride Parade, and festivities afterward…through downtown Seattle they drifted, the politicos, the church groups (yes I said church groups), cheer squads, bag pipes(seriously these guys come out-lol-for everything), belly dancers, and for sure, the fabulously queer………..

This year was the second year I photographed the parade (still haven’t made it to the party yet! Maybe next year!)…and it was another scorcher…

The story I think some of my favorite images tell, is one that while joyous, also has purpose…I think the biggest theme I saw was the issue of gay marriage…To me this issue is really at it’s boiling point, nationally…brought very much to the forefront thanks to the recent California passing of Prop 8…

Without getting too much into my own political beliefs(you can imagine given that I so enthusiastically support such an event via imagery)…I will let the beholders draw their own conclusions…

Love baby love. It’s written all over your face…*
*nods to the lyrics from my favorite band: INXS

The preceding are just a selection, full set of 128 on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/emswazzu/sets/72157620723129852/detail/

Shoutout to the seattle blog that linked back to my preview blog/photos:
http://www.seattlegayscene.com/

Happy summer!

xoxo
~Elisa

Welcome-archive photo of the day, 6/10/2009

elisa sherman — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:09:17 +0000

The image here was my first, and really only try at shooting film at a show…I shot an old 35mm fully manual slr(Minolta SRT 101, 55mm f1.7 lens) along side my old Olympus ultra zoom point and shoot…to date it is still one of my favorite early concert photography images from my archives!

Welcome – archive photo of the day, 6/9/2009

elisa sherman — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:15:13 +0000

Tim Farriss…riff making guitarist for the legendary Aussie rock band, INXS…he is a viewfinders dream…he does love mugging for the camera;) This is one of my favorite early fan photos that definitely led me to pursuing this genre of photography more seriously…Thanks Tim!

Welcome – archive photo of the day 6/8/2009

elisa sherman — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:38:28 +0000

This photo showed up today as the most viewed photo in my flickr stream, so it seemed appropos…the color version is the 9th image in my portfolio…

Welcome – archive photo of the day, 6/5/2009

elisa sherman — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:08:21 +0000

…the above is one of the images from the header…I took it at a Folk Festival in Seoul…This man went out with the other festival performers…he was just part of the onlooking crowd, and was just having he best time joining in…you can see the pure joie de vivre on his face as he danced…

…another …

Have a great day!

xoxo

~Elisa

Welcome – archive image of the day 6/4/2009

elisa sherman — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:06:18 +0000

This is probably my first favorite vacation photo…I fell in love with the fact we could see Maui there in the horizon peaking through the haze……..

Welcome – archive image of the day 6/3/2009

elisa sherman — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:50:45 +0000

I think as a tradition for the front page of this site, I will choose a photo from the archives and post it here each day, to keep it fresh, and tell a little story about what led to that image: happenstance, travels, assignment, etc…

This is not a replacement for my blog at photosbyelisa.com/blog, it’s just a nice little front page highlight:)

So here’s the first entry for June 3rd, 2009…

The above image features a multiple exposure of the Fairmont Olympic, downtown Seattle–all ghostly and whatnot…

Anyways, here’s the backstory…While buying new lenses last spring, I saw the plastic holga’s on sale at the camera store…only $25 dollars! I had read and seen various photos taken with them, and I thought why not…so I just threw it into my rather large lense purchase (Canon EF & EFS lenses for my XTi) and went on over to the film building to trail back to their refrigerated film section to pick out some 120 film–had never bought any out of a fridge before!

Anywho, I chose some b/w and color…and took it around town along w/my XTi over the next few weekends…I played a lot, I confess, with multi exposures, just to see what crazy artsy images I could create…it was great fun awaiting the development of rolls and scanning in the cool shots…I might make a print of this and hang it, it is easily one of my favorites, as well as one of the first few frames…I would call this type of image… “artistic happenstance”…

Until tomorrow…

xoxo

~Elisa