Blog - Page 19 of 38 - Equal Motion

May 26

by Matt in News, Travels 0 comments tags: brooklyn, bushwick, new york city, nyc, photography, travels

New York City: Brooklyn Photography

I spent 10 days exploring New York and my time spent in Brooklyn was easily the highlight of the trip. The area is very hip and most would say it is dominated by hipsters, but I would like to think the area is full of young people creating and experimenting with art, business, music, food and theatre that gives the area such an inspiring/trendsetting feel. It was my first time to New York and I stayed with my brother Tom and his roommates Tori, Rachel and Maggie, at their house in Brooklyn. His house is in the Bushwick area, which is in the northern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The area kinda reminds me of a much larger, more diverse Bellingham, which is rapidly changing. As the rent in most areas like Williamsburg, Brooklyn have skyrocketed, young people have been begun to retreat deeper along the L Train subway line to Bushwick area from what I was told while I was visiting. Now the prices in Bushwick are rising also, so people have to move further down the subway line since it is more affordable. Bushwick has changed a lot over the past decade. According to […]

May 26

by Matt in Action, Magazine Clips, News 0 comments

2014 Ski to Sea Race Photos

Another Ski to Sea is in the books. I worked from 4:30am to 8pm yesterday to capture the race and to help put together four photo pages for The Bellingham Herald. You can see all the stories, photos and video from Ski to Sea at BhamHerald.com/skitosea and you can see a few clips and photos I captured from the race below.

May 20

by Matt in Magazine Clips, News, Portraits 0 comments tags: Bellingham, Portraits, ring flash, ski to sea

Ski to Sea Preview: Racer portraits

I was given the task to create some portraits for the Ski to Sea special section that The Bellingham Herald puts out each year. I used a ring flash and a random wall in the basement of The Bellingham Herald building to create all of these portraits. I also had a bunch of photos from last year’s race run in the special section and will be back up on the mountain covering the cross country and downhill legs of the race again this year.

May 19

by Matt in News, Travels 0 comments tags: chelsea, high line, new york, new york city, nyc, parks, travels

New York City: The High Line Photos

I spent 10 days in New York and one of my favorite experiences was walking the High Line. The High Line is a 1-mile New York City linear park built on a 1.45-mile section of the elevated former New York Central Railroad spur called the West Side Line, which runs along the lower west side of Manhattan; it has been redesigned and planted as an aerial greenway. A similar project in Paris, the 3-mile Promenade plantée, completed in 1993, was the inspiration for this project. The High Line currently runs from Gansevoort Street, three blocks below West 14th Street, in the Meatpacking District, to 30th Street, through the neighborhood of Chelsea to the West Side Yard, near the Javits Convention Center. Formerly the viaduct of the High Line went as far south as Spring Street just north of Canal Street, but the lower section was demolished in 1960. Photos captured on the High Line in New York City by Matt McDonald from Bellingham, Washington. All photos are availble for prints and exclusive commercial photo use. For more information send an email to matt@equalitydesigns.com or look at my 500px.com account.

May 14

by Matt in Travels 0 comments tags: music, new york, new york city, ny life, nyc, subway, verbal ase

New York City: The Subway

I have driven so little since I turned 16-years old that I have owned the same truck for 15 years and it is just about to hit 140,000 miles. I hate driving, so I was very intrigued to try the subway system in New York City. When you aren’t in a rush to get anywhere the subway is great and I would much rather watch people in a subway then be stuck in a car in traffic on a freeway. The New York City subway was pretty much what I thought it would be. People would sometimes run to the subway cars and rush into them like their life was on the line. A large majority of the time people just didn’t look that happy though. I am sure if I rode the subway everyday for years I would have fallen into the New York City routine. The only time I had to wait a significant amount of time is when one of the subway lines had a stalled train and the crowds built up quite a bit. Outside of that the New York City subway was a very efficient mode of transportation. The New York City subway is one […]

Apr 29

by Matt in Landscapes, Macro 0 comments

Skagit Valley Tulip Festival

Photos from the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival in Mount Vernon, Washington. Photos are available for print and for commercial use.

Apr 23

by Matt in News, Portraits 0 comments tags: Bellingham, Portraits

Portraits with Megan Lynn Lee

Last week I had the pleasure of capturing some portraits of local jewelry designer Megan Lynn Lee around Bellingham. Here’s a few photos from the photo session.

Apr 22

by Matt in Action, Travels, Video 0 comments tags: db skimboards, skim, skimboarding

DB Skimboards European Tour: Sweden

Take a look at the video from my trip with DB Skimboards to Sweden, which was part of the DB European Tour. You can see more photos and the full story over at Skim Magazine: Click Here

Apr 07

by Matt in Portraits 0 comments tags: engagement portraits, kerry park, Portraits, sculpture park, seattle

Engagement portraits with Molly and Chris in Seattle

I had the opportunity to capture engagement portraits of Molly and Chris in Seattle at the beginning of April. We went to a few different locations and it was a pretty good time to say the least. I am looking forward to being their wedding photographer in the fall. Anyways, here’s some photos from the photo session.

Mar 29

by Matt in Action, Travels 0 comments tags: db skimboards, denmark, skimboarding

DB Skimboards European Tour: Denmark

I had the opportunity to travel and skimboard with DB Skimboards this summer and we ventured to Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Poland. Here’s some video, photos and words from our brief stay in Denmark. We had only a few hours to stay in Denmark and we found the best beach for skimboarding we could. The spot left a lot to be desired, but Friedrich and Daniel made the best of it using what they could find on the beach. Minus the naked old men it was a beautiful beach and was well worth the stop or at least we thought that until we got back to the van. As we walked back to the van we approached it and notice one of the doors was open. “We locked the doors for sure,” Dallas insisted and I ran up to the van where we could see someone broke a window and got into the van where they stole backpacks that were in the middle of the van. They didn’t have enough time to get everything, but the damage was done. They stole Dallas’s Nikon D5100, Daniels Cannon 55D, Adam and Logan’s wallets and passports, one of my credit cards, […]