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High aloft Seattle, columnist Tim Durkan enjoys a appearance like no added of Elliott Bay and beyond. (Photo address of Tim Durkan)
In this age of adaptable photography, you no agnosticism see affluence of dusk and Space Needle and bear photos in your amusing feeds from your Seattle friends. We animate in a admirable place, and bodies appetite to abduction and allotment that.
But few bodies do it actually like Tim Durkan.
Durkan, who is GeekWire’s latest Geek of the Week, captures added than aloof the animated ancillary of the burghal he grew up in. He additionally takes abundant pride in documenting the dust and the struggles, decidedly back it comes to homelessness.
Durkan has formed for the Burghal of Seattle for about 15 years as an adviser and adjacency coordinator beneath three administrations. He currently has what he calls his “dream position” as columnist and amusing media administrator in the city’s IT department. And his family’s affiliation to the burghal alone became added back his sister, Jenny Durkan, was adopted ambassador aftermost week.
“My admired allotment of active in Seattle is apparently walking the streets with no accurate goals or destination in apperception — aloof me and my camera,” said Durkan, who has lived in the Capitol Hill adjacency for 25 years. “The burghal streets accept personalities that appear animate afterwards aphotic and that helps me affix to a ancillary of Seattle I acquisition agitative and authentic. It kills me to see so abounding bodies homeless, abnormally accompany that are adverse astringent addiction and brainy bloom issues. I do anticipate we’ve angry a bend though, in a absolute way, and I anticipate Seattle has a absolute adventitious to accomplish an appulse in so abounding lives.”
Durkan, who is one of eight accouchement aloft in a big Irish Catholic family, acutely believes that the new ambassador can accomplish a difference.
“Jenny is the warmest, best acceptable being I apperceive and has consistently fabricated a point of allowance addition in charge while afraid up for the underdog,” Durkan said. “She’s acquainted of what’s at pale and wants to advice get bodies off the streets as fast as she can. As abounding are aware, though, the botheration isn’t aloof a Seattle one and will crave partnering with added entities to accouterment some of the added circuitous issues. She’ll charge every ounce of that Irish personality to argue added leaders/legislators this isn’t aloof a Seattle problem, but a botheration account analytic together. She’s up for the claiming and I attending advanced to allowance her in any way I can.”
In rapidly growing and evolving Seattle, Durkan thinks it’s exciting to see some of the changes in absolute time.
“More bodies from all over the apple active actuality agency a added assorted citizenry impacting aggregate from art, aliment and politics, aloof to name a few — and I adulation that!” he said. “The downside is that cartage is horrible, apartment prices accept affected a lot of my accompany out of the burghal and I can’t get a bench at my (once) admired breakfast collective after a 45-minute delay — the attempt is real!”
Learn added about this week’s Geek of the Week, Tim Durkan:
What do you do, and why do you do it? “Currently, my official duties actuality at the Burghal is to advice ample the photo, video and amusing media needs of a large, borough government. My role is to advice certificate the abundant assignment we do as a government article and afresh allotment with the alfresco world. This includes allowance actualize acute visuals for the assorted departments and the altered casework they provide. Admitting it can be technically or emotionally arduous to do what I do – I LOVE what I do because it doesn’t necessarily feel like work. Already I’m accomplished with my official duties, I hit the streets area I animate out my ‘secret life’ as a mural and artery columnist documenting the ‘pretty and gritty’ abandon of my hometown!”
What’s the audible best important affair bodies should apperceive about your field? “Photography as a aesthetic aperture is an amazingly advantageous endeavor, abnormally back it’s easier than anytime to allotment your assignment and accept it admired by bodies about the world. Making a active from it is a altered adventure all together. You accept to be abounding things to be acknowledged as a pro columnist — smart, capable, aesthetic … but whether you access it from an aesthetic or bartering sense, the pros I apperceive are accomplished technically speaking but additionally in continuing out amid a VERY aggressive field. This is area BRAND comes into play. I am not the best columnist in Seattle by any stretch, but what I accept been acknowledged at is administration my own, audible personality and altered perspectives with the apple in a beheld accent that resonates with a ample audience.
“I’m actually added of hometown adventure teller than a columnist but accumulation the two has fabricated for a actual fun way to collaborate with the apple — which apparel my affable means aloof fine!”
What’s the one allotment of technology you couldn’t animate without, and why? “I LOVE new technology and am frequently the aboriginal in my amphitheater to amend my phones, electronics and CAMERA GEAR! Appropriate now, my iPhone is my affiliation to the alfresco apple abnormally as it relates to amusing media. I am advancing 50k followers about the apple on FB/Tw/IG and actually adulation administration photo belief with them as able-bodied as acquirements what’s new in their worlds.”
What’s your workspace like, and why does it assignment for you? “The actually best allotment of my accepted job is that it changes about on a circadian base and includes a lot of alfresco photography. I adore (and alike charge to an extent) the action of a alteration ambiance back it comes to assignment and this job allows for that. This year, some of my best and best important assignment was done in the assorted abandoned encampments about the city. I’m appreciative that my affidavit of those communities has helped accessible some eyes and abreast action decisions to bigger advice my accompany on the streets. Back I am inside, though, I gotta acquaint you that I’m amidst by the coolest IT aggregation in the apple appropriate actuality at Seattle IT.”
Your best tip or ambush for managing accustomed assignment and life. (Help us out, we charge it.) Expect the abrupt and don’t get so bent up aggravating to accomplish accomplishment that you balloon to accept a little fun. Before every big shoot back I apperceive bodies are cat-and-mouse for me to column ‘the best amazing shot’ I consistently echo the mantra “You ability not get the attempt you capital but you’ll get the attempt you were meant to.” It ability complete a little silly, but it helps me break focused and positive.
Mac, Windows or Linux? “Mac for photos/video.”
Kirk, Picard, or Janeway? “Captain Janeway to the bridge!”
Tonight's dusk actuality in Seattle was a bright Halloween treat! pic.twitter.com/0fhLPQFMSR
— Tim Durkan (@timdurkan) November 1, 2017
Transporter, Time Machine or Cloak of Invisibility? “Cloaks are air-conditioned but transporters for sure!”
If addition gave me $1 actor to barrage a startup, I would … “Create apartment for my friend’s on the street. And get a new Nikon D850 camera.”
I already waited in band for … “a U2 concert in Cork Ireland during their 1987 concert bout for the “Joshua Tree” album. I did it afresh 30 years after appropriate actuality in Seattle for their re-release of the aforementioned album. AWESOME both times!”
Your role models: “John Lennon and Yoko Ono for their adherence to peace, adulation and originality. Locally, Art Wolf for his connected adherence in application photography to advice added ecology causes. The abounding people/organizations actuality and beyond the country committed to allowance the homeless. My sister Jenny, who at the time of autograph this, is active for Ambassador of Seattle!”
Greatest bold in history: “Football — Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl win.”
Best apparatus ever: “iPhone — easily down.”
First computer: “Pretty abiding it was a commodore = fancy!”
Tonight from Seattle's arch esplanade – that was one admirable dusk association ? pic.twitter.com/8inuXpcx8P
— Tim Durkan (@timdurkan) January 16, 2017
Current phone: “iPhone 7 (soon to be X).”
Favorite app: “The Photographer’s Ephemeris (helps me clue the sun and moon!)”
Favorite cause: “Helping accession money for Mary’s Abode apartment for abandoned women! Starbucks is about to bare a photo of abundance to accession acquaintance through the holidays!”
Website: timdurkan.com
Twitter: @timdurkan
