For now, Seattle has two newspapers – the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post Intelligencer. They’re both middling at best, but at least the Seattle PI has a great spinning globe atop it’s office building. It’s been around since 1948 and even moved with the PI to their current location 23 years ago.
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Tags: globe, longexposure, neon, newspaper, night, PI, postintelligencer, seattle
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Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT (Canon) & 12.0-24.0 mm |
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2009:03:11 11:56:14 |
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Ari Brown |
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The University of Washington is not lacking for nice architecture. Quite opposed to the soviet-bloc style architecture of my alma mater, UW for the most part feels the way a real old-fashioned school should – lots of ornate stone buildings with ivy up the side. They also have this brick thing going on in places, especially the aptly-named Red Square (not to be confused with that other Red Square). Although home to a couple statues, a lot of freshmen, and a great view of Suzallo Library, I like the brick monoliths above the best. The fact that they only built them to ventilate the parking garage underneath only sorta detracts from them.
Tags: brick, redsquare, towers, UW, wideangle
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Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT (N/A) & no lens info |
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2009:03:10 07:01:13 |
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The UW has a power plant. I suppose it’s pretty obvious when you look at the massive smokestack, constantly billowing… well… smoke, I guess. I’ve looked at it a million times, but it wasn’t until I was lurking around campus the other day, trying to find an innocuous place to illegally park while driving the afternoon impromptu shuttle run that I realized how close you can get to it. Even though it still produces 40% of the campus emissions (coal to natural gas switchover in the 80′s not withstanding), I’ve always loved looking at it. A massive symbol of industry, hiding in plain view next to Montlake boulevard.
I took this picture with my wonderful Tokina 12-24 wide angle lens. Although I was a little worried about how long I could hang around taking pictures of university infrastructure before someone ran me off, I got up as close as possible to the base of the stack and shot almost straight up. In a more documentary picture, especially shooting from corner to corner of the frame, I might have used Photoshop to straighten out some lines, but I liked the effect of all the angles in this picture. Using my standard HDR setup (handheld, but tight against my wonderful R-Strap, burst mode, AEB) I shot three shots and used Photomatix to combine them, but I dialled down the insanity a bit as I didn’t think this picture needed the glowing lights treatment. I really like this shot in general – having a good subject means you don’t need to work nearly as hard to make the final product something you like.
Tags: HDR, powerplant, smokestack, UW, wideangle
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Today I’m breaking from the standard photography stuff. Why? Because the bulldozers are out across the hill from me, starting the demolition for the Light Rail station on Capitol Hill. Finally. Although it isn’t scheduled to start actually operating for another 6 or 8 years, I suppose it’s something. There’s a gallery below of the work going on today.
See all of the images in the gallery below.
Tags: backhoe, bulldozer, capitolhill, demolition, lightrail, photojournalism, wideangle
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I’ll just say this up front – for a lot of people, this is really elementary stuff. Every photo class I’ve ever taken, for the first or second assignment, did something with DoF (depth of field). In any case, I was playing around and just happened to end up with some pictures that demonstrate it well, so I’m posting here. Someone said they liked this stuff before. We’ll see what you think.
Wanna learn all about it, or just see some purdy pictures? Click the link:
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Tags: africanviolet, depth of field, flowers, macro
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Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT (N/A) & no lens info |
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2009:02:26 07:32:18 |
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I don’t look at the weather report anymore. It’s consistently wrong, which is sort of amazing if you assume they’re trying to be right. As I type this it’s brilliantly sunny and beautiful, but when this hits the site, if the weather folks are somehow right, it will be snowing. Again. The only upside is that if my wonderful Subaru-driving friend sorts out his caliper issue, I should be in the mountains where snow is a good thing, not a horrible curse. In any case, I leave you with another HDR from our last brush with snow a couple weeks ago. I like how the paths up the hill in Gasworks Park are still visible and the Aurora Bridge peeks out in the background.
Tags: gasworkspark, HDR, snow
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Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT (Canon) & 24.0-105.0 mm |
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2009:02:25 13:08:19 |
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For those non-Seattleites out there, Ballard is a community on the edge of Seattle. Forcibly annexed way back in 1907 (after Seattle decided that if Ballard didn’t want to come to our party, we wouldn’t um… give them any water), it is traditionally populated by Scandanavian fishermen and other characters of similarly ill-repute. They’ve got boats down there. They’ve got one of the two remaining Sonic Boom locations. They’ve got hipsters. And they’ve also got the Jolly Roger Taproom, with great little Mahi Mahi sammiches, which is why I was there. From what I’ve seen, they also have Volvo-weilding alcoholics. Just sayin…
Tags: ballard, beer, bottlecap, cars
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