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April 26 2011
Playing with Cinemagraphic GIFs
March 09 2011
A note of remorse
February 23 2011
Goodbye Seattle, hello (again) California
November 23 2010
Seattle Snow Day
October 22 2010
Lost then found: Pablo the burrito unicorn
September 16 2010
Solidarity
Walked up on this guy near Five Points, on 5th Avenue in Seattle. Full size available here.
September 06 2010
Donny Osmond and the Sad Narwhal
We had an interesting stroll through Seattle yesterday while hunting down the folks from Intel WiMAX. The town was buzzing with PAX 2010 attendees, so it was more interesting (and sometimes crowded) than usual — but I like it that way.
We found “Sad Narwhal,” shown in the above image, on a random bit of plywood that had been set up as a cordon around construction at the corner of 5th and Battery. Full size available here.
Sharp Beast
This is the lot-facing wall of the mysterious Wexley School for Girls building on 5th Ave, which we later found out is actually an advertising & media agency that seems to only use Adobe Flash for everything. Either way, the figures painted on the outer wall were pretty interesting — even if they didn’t make any sense. Full size available here.
Donny Osmond
On our way to the Yellow Leaf Cupcake Co. on 4th Ave, home of the Pancakes & Bacon cupcake (henceforth known as the Greatest Thing to have Ever Existed), we noticed something odd on the back of the lady walking in front of us. It was Donny Osmond, and he was residing on the back of her hoodie. How could I resist? Full size available here.
Sad Song
This old man sits near the corner of 6th and Pine just about every day. He plays what I believe is called an Erhu, and he nearly always plays sad, sad songs. He’s extremely good, but I have a feeling that he doesn’t get tipped often since most of the people walking by, fresh on their way home from a shopping spree, don’t feel as sad as he does. Full size available here.
Side note: Those windows across the street are really clean. The reflection on the left is me.
The Drummer
We see this guy all over Seattle. Wherever he goes with that drum, he brings with him a bubble of city atmosphere that warms up this traditionally chilled town. Due to the already large homeless population in the city, he doesn’t get tipped much, but he does get noticed. Full size available here.
September 02 2010
Seattle Public Library
Alright, so we finally went to the Seattle Public Library (it only took us a full year). If you haven’t ever seen it before, it’s a bit jarring; the structure itself is a large misshapen monster of glass that looks more like an enormous greenhouse than anything else, and it’s plopped down in the middle of the city with older, much more boring architecture surrounding it. I grabbed a few shots inside but there were really only a couple that I liked enough to post. C’est la vie, non?
The shot above turned out to be one of my favorites, I call it “Let your feet guide you.” The library is so big and labyrinthian inside that in order to make it easier to navigate, they placed sorting numbers on floor tiles between aisles. I would say they’re Dewey Decimal sorting codes, but I could have sworn they stopped calling them that a few years ago. Either way, it’s pretty useful when you’re lost in a library this size. Full size available here.
Window Grid
I grabbed this shot on the 10th floor, looking northwest from an interior sort of crow’s nest they have set up. Full size available here.
Down Below
This was also shot on the 10th floor, looking down into the cavernous center of the building. It can cause a feeling of acrophobia just being up there, and the floor at the bottom isn’t even ground level, either — it’s the 3rd floor. Full size available here.
Browsing Unevenly
The entire library was made by designers looking to make it unlike other libraries, so there are pockets of completely uneven layouts right next to perfectly ordered sections. It’s nice to break the monotony. Full size available here.
Going Up
We found liberal use of extremely long, narrow escalators. Full size available here.
Book Return
I grabbed this one as we were leaving, just outside the library on 5th Avenue. I think she was homeless; she was just standing there, staring at the book return box. Full size available here.
August 26 2010
The Japanese Garden
Grabbed this shot just a couple of feet directly above a literal feeding frenzy at the huge koi pond in Seattle’s Japanese garden. The koi in the pond are proportional gigantic, and they swarm wherever they think food may be. Some of the fish in this picture are easily larger than a dachshund. Full size available here.
The images in this set were all grabbed at the Japanese garden in Seattle’s arboretum (map in a box). It’s a cute little garden that’s really just big enough to make for a nice summer morning’s walk. This time around there’s a nice mix of black & white and colour. Yes, colour.
Pads
Just a portion of the lily field in the pond. Full size available here.
Mr. Turtle
Mr. Turtle resides in the pond. He’s quite friendly, and actually swam right up to us in high hopes that we had brought him a treat. Full size available here.
You Are Not a Fish, Mr. Turtle
Though there are several other shellbacks in the neighborhood, Mr. Turtle likes to hang out with the gargantuan koi that live in the pond with him. They, however, do not accept him as one of their own. Full size available here.
Cave of Coins
Found this view inside an old stone lantern-tower in the garden. Apparently people had been leaving pennies in it for luck, Canadians included. Full size available here.
The Dancing Bokeh Spider
This one’s best viewed really big. The spider’s near center-frame, but I didn’t want to crop out the web and background-bokeh just to make him more prominent. I did, however, make a cropped version for better spider-viewing (see it in a box). Full un-cropped size available here, with the cropped version here.
August 10 2010
Capacity: 320
We came across this old fallout shelter sign today while checking out the now-defunct, very old, and quite grungy Seattle Steam plant. The building has been sitting in disuse for quite some time, but the company itself is now operating up the street a few blocks (in their shiny new steam plant). I like this one, and these fallout shelter signs are getting harder to come by as time passes on. Full size version of above image here.
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August 05 2010
Aquatic
It’s amazing what you can do in an aquarium with nothing more than a lens hood and a good sensor (or high ISO film). All but one of these shots was through aquarium glass — the public kind — and that means hugely thick, scratched, smudged, and swarming with small children. Luckily, the Seattle Aquarium is pretty good about its in-tank lighting, so I was able to get some pretty nice grabs :)
The image above is not a macro, but a shot from about a foot’s distance of a clam so unbelievably enormous that we had to start calling it Ginormaclam. It was larger than a human head, glowed blue, and it actually pulsated. The thought of actually sticking my hand in there was actually a bit terrifying. Full size image here.
I love clownfish, and I don’t care that it’s become cliche to do so, ever since Finding Nemo made clownfish an automatic favorite fish of half the human population. Full size image here.
That pufferfish was about the size of my leg, and as much as I wanted to see it in its puffed stage, I would never want to be the guy who pissed it off enough to cause such a reaction. Even un-puffed, however, he was pretty hilarious because of that face. Full size image here.
This is the only one that wasn’t taken through a glass wall, since it was in a shallow pool. I got this one from above, a couple of inches above the water, as the anemones sat just a couple of inches below the surface. Loved the translucent green. Full size image here.
Just some coral. Full size image here.
Again, more coral here, but it’s nice that when it comes to aquatic life, a thing doesn’t have to move much to be beautiful. Full size image here.
August 03 2010
July 27 2010
Eyes
This is probably my favorite picture to date. Took this one during the Short-Hair Shoot, but since it has nothing to do with hair, I figured it deserves its own post.
The Short-Hair Shoot
After months of talking about it, she finally found the ovaries to go and get her hair cut off. New hair means new head shots, and these were my favorites from the group.
July 14 2010
Urban Decay
I don’t know how old my apartment building is here in Seattle. I honestly don’t care, as long as it isn’t new. This chunk of cement is part of the wall that holds the little flowerbed shown in the previous post (see what pretty little flowers can do?). Full size here.
Atrium Flowers
They live a lonely little life at the neglected bottom of the atrium in my apartment building. Full size here.
June 21 2010
We are here
A set of three; home as viewed from a returning Seattle ferry.
Home!
North Seattle …looking a bit Swedish
Something about the bright colors. Taken from a ferry in the Sound. Full size (4288×2848@300dpi) available here.
June 20 2010
Newspaper boxes feel pain too
Bainbridge Island, WA
Slung
On a sunny boat ride across the Sound.
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