David Martschinske Photography

Elegant, modern, unique photography for ordinary people. Seattle and Vancouver Washington.

About me

Over the past few years, the word "career" has gone through a lot of changes for me. I originally went to school to be an engineer. I love order, design, and statistics. I'm the kind of guy that needs charts, diagrams, and spreadsheets before I make major decisions. After working for a year as a Mechanical Engineer I made the jump into full-time photography. Though the "jump" was not my choice it is a rather funny story that if I told you here you'd think I was kidding.

After 5 minutes of meeting me you'll find that I immerse myself in everything that I do. My photographs are the result of left brain and right brain fusion. I love order, patterns, and the mechanics of light that go into each photo because they change with every situation. At the same time, I love the right-brained creativity and out of the box thinking that can lead to phrases like, "Now, this may sound a little unorthodox but...".

In the past I've been bad with names so I will commonly nick-name people in the wedding party. You might get a nick-name like Junebug, Blackbeard, Rico Suave, or, "girl who forgot my starbucks :-)". I even nick-name the poses. It makes things easy and relatable for me. I love being able to go up to a group of bridesmaids and say that I want them to do what Tyra Banks would do and use "Smeyes" or that I want them to walk towards me "Sex and the City" style... you know where you're walking and laughing like best friends.

My goal is to be so fun and relatable that we become Facebook friends and my work to be so awesome and beautiful that you tell all your Facebook friends about me!

When I'm not behind the computer or the camera I love running, biking, canoeing, and entrepreneur(ing). Thanks for checking out what I love to do!

Saturday, May 1, 2010

World Concern “Free Them” 5k Run

Posted in Events

The World Concern “Free Them” 5k Run was held at the CRISTA campus in Shoreline/Seattle today (May 1st). The “Free Them” run was started to raise money to help put an end to human trafficking… such a wretched thing! If ever there was a cause to fight for it is human trafficking. Just watch the movie “Taken” with Liam Neeson and it will get you fired up about the issue. Ending human trafficking is a cause everyone can and should stand behind – speaking plainly. I originally was just going to take photos of my old college roomie, Joseph Lee, but when he took me on a tour of World Concern and I got to meet all of his coworkers they seemed like they would be interested in photos of the event. Of course I was obliged for such an awesome cause (if you haven’t caught my drift yet) so I woke up quite early to snap the following shots:

Oh and by the way… I don’t think I’ve mentioned it here but I’m living in Seattle officially now (have been for about a month). I’m living with my OTHER old roommate, David Chen. I’m shooting his wedding later this summer in exchange for rent at his place. It’s a great deal for both of us, especially because I’m now only 15 minutes away from Allison, who ironically also works at CRISTA but in the senior living area. She loves the people there and I’m beginning to see why. You can see from the pictures this is quite a fun bunch. ‘nJoy

ONE more thing… You can feel free view / download / buy all of the other pictures I took HERE (http://www.zenfolio.com/onephotonerd/p823929524/) All I ask is that you spread the word that there is a cool new photographer in town. By the way… the cool new photographer is me.