I crouched by a low tripod ten feet from my desk in The News Tribune to shoot the moonrise through our front window near our Chihuly sculpture.

ps: a comment wondered why the moon seems to be in front of the buildings steel beams.

Here's my analysis:

In the photo the bright portion of the beam is the slightly blurred image of the front side of the beam. And the moon's image touches it, but doesn't block any portion of it.

The dark area that we see under the beam is not actually the unlit under side of the steel beam, but mostly it is a reflection of the unlit back and under sides of the beam in the glass that is about 18" behind the front side of the beam. The moon shines brightly through the glass and outshines this dim reflection which, to the left and right of the moon, appears black.

Soldiers attend a memorial service at Fort Lewis in Washington for four Stryker soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, who were killed while in serving in Iraq. Alison Yin/The News Tribune

Time Magazine is displaying one of our photos (above) on their site this week. Our summer photo intern Alison Yin took the photo during a soldier memorial at Ft. Lewis earlier this month. It was her first time covering a memorial service of any kind.

Time got the photo through McClatchy-Tribune Information Services (or MCT), a news service that is part of the parent company of The News Tribune, The McClatchy Company.

We always share our memorial photos with MCT because so many of these soldiers are from other parts of the country and we want these photos available to McClatchy papers across the U.S. We also have other local papers, such as The Olympian, which are part of the McClatchy family.

Gary Matthews of the Los Angeles Angels successfully evaded the tag of Mariner second baseman Jose Lopez at Safeco Field August 27, 2007.

In the first frame you can see that Matthews is beginning a slide.

Seeing Lopez's glove blocking his foot's path to the bag, he digs in, nearly stopping, and goes up.

Lopez follows with the glove, but Matthews keeps his waist back, just out of reach.

Then with the glove up at waist level, Matthews thrusts his foot out...

...and reaches the bag at the same moment that Lopez tags.

But the tie goes to the runner.

A cloudless August sky makes a perfect canvas Thursday for this daring hop by Zachary Goemaat off a chunk of driftwood at Sunnyside Beach Park in Steilacoom.
(He was actually only about 2 feet off the ground, but he gets a 10 for form.) Drew Perine/The News Tribune

Mike McCready of Pearl Jam fame deconstructs The Star Spangled Banner (a la Jimi Hendrix) as Seattle City Councilman Peter Steinbrueck makes light of AT&T's recent censorship of a Pearl Jam webcast. This is at the end of a concert in celebration of the 100th birthday of Pike Place Market in Seattle featuring musicians from famous Seattle bands playing Seattle-themed music held in Victor Steinbrueck Park by Pike Place Market.

Annabelle Daniel, 4, put down her paint brush and found a new form of expression: finger painting. Tressie Schindele calls her work post-modern abstract impressionism. The owners of the building and businesses Funkoma Vintage and Yung's Teriyakim wanted the community to come and help paint it. From noonish to 6ish on Friday Tressie Schindele, owner of Funkoma Vintage, had exterior paint, brushes, and a ladder ready for folks who wanted to stop by and do a doodle, sign a name, roll out a wall, or add some stylistic color to their blank walls. Russ Carmack/The News Tribune

Gigantic aluminum-covered steel tanks will hold up to 500,000 gallons of biodiesel at the Imperium Renewables plant in Hoquiam.

The highly-reflective surface of these giant aluminum-covered steel tanks were fun to photograph, especially on a sunny day. It would also make a great locale for a fashion shoot. Clean, industrial backgrounds add drama.

Drew Perine/The News Tribune