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I'm not a professional photographer. I don't own a camera bag full of lenses or edit photos for a living. I'm a Mechanical Technician who works long shifts at Group 14 Technologies and comes home to a kid who moves too fast to pose for anything.
But somewhere along the way I started paying attention to light.
It started out on the water. When you spend years working on commercial fishing vessels in the Bering Sea you're surrounded by views that don't care whether you have a good camera or not. Sunrises over open ocean at 5am. The way fog sits on the water before the crew wakes up. Dutch Harbor in Alaska looking like something from a different planet. I started pulling out my phone just to hold onto those moments because I knew I'd want to remember them.
Then I came back to Moses Lake and realized the same thing was happening here.
People who have never been to Central Washington sometimes assume it's just flat and dry and forgettable. And yeah the land is flat. But the sky is enormous. The lake turns gold at sunset in a way that stops you mid-sentence. The hills around Grant County in the early morning look like something a painter made up. And my son laughing in the backyard in the afternoon light is the best photograph I've ever almost taken.
Almost because the real ones are never planned. They're always the moments right before or right after you meant to take the picture.
I'm not trying to build a photography business or grow a following. I'm just trying to hold onto the life I have here. Moses Lake, my son, the PNW, the faith that keeps me grounded, and occasionally the boats I used to work on that first taught me to notice the world around me.
That's what this page is. Not a portfolio. Just proof that paying attention is worth something.
Jason David Newton Mechanical Technician | Moses Lake, Washington jasondavidnewton.com
