Walking In Seattle… At Night

Seattle

Traveled up to Seattle for the 2013 ARVO meetings earlier this year and am just now getting around to posting images from that trip.  There was supposed to be another trip later in the year, but things kinda got busy and the talk I was supposed to give had to be given remotely from Salt Lake.  Pretty disappointed at that given how much I wanted to get back to Seattle to see friends old and new and walk around a bit more.  The trip will have to be rescheduled!

There really is quite a bit to see in Seattle like the EMP Museum shown above.  The building itself is a crazy looking building designed by Frank Gehry and I could have spent all day there just shooting different angles as the light changed.  The shot above got the Seattle Space Needle in just as the sun was setting and the lights went up.

 

Seattle Rock and Roll Museum

RocknRoll Museum Seattle 2

RocknRoll Museum Seattle

Blue skies at night

Standing around

Even after the sun goes down, the EMP Museum building does amazing things with light.  This was at the very end of blue hour when all the street lights were starting to go on.  I love shooting at blue hour…

 

Mark Griffith

My friend Mark Griffith (an amazing photographer) stopped by the hotel one morning before the scientific sessions to meet up and talk which was really nice.  Next trip, we’ll have to schedule a little more time.  The hope was to coordinate with Duncan on the end of October trip and get together for food, photography and discussion.  We’ll see how that works out.  It would be nice to do more photography *before* the sun starts to set.

 

Pike Place market

Of course, Seattle is famous for Pikes Place Market and we tended to migrate down here several nights including a notable dinner at Etta’s.

 

Sleeping on the street

Seattle also has a huge homeless population that, like in San Francisco, seems ever more pressured by the increasing cost of living.  One of the most troubling things I ever saw was a super high-rise in Buenos Aires with Maybach’s and Rolls Royce automobiles driving in and out with people living in cardboard boxes *right next* to the garage entry.  Other parts of the world are seeing increasing pressure and juxtaposition of the super wealthy right next to abject poverty.  This trend seems to be increasingly spreading to places in the US where economic pyramids are getting progressively steeper and public services are increasingly bearing the burden for this disparity.  Every single night down by the market, we saw ambulances and police responding to overdoses or other issues in the homeless living and sleeping down by the waterfront.

 

Singles Going Steady

Singles Going Steady inside

One of the evenings, I got out before sundown and we swung by Singles Going Steady, a great little punk record shop that takes their name from the Buzzcocks compilation.  Really nice used collection as well as old posters and T-shirts.

 

Beko dog dude

Beko dog stand

Beko Matsuri dog

One of the best hotdogs I’ve ever had was on this trip down at the Gourmet Dog Japon stand.  The Matsuri hot dog was awesome… amazing.  A perfect combination of savory flavors and textures.  Get one!  There is some epic cuisine going on in Seattle, but do not underestimate or miss out on these street dogs.

 

Blue sky and yellow glass

Glass alien life

Glass colors

Glass looking

Glass neurons 2

Glass neurons

Glass picture time

Glass

One of the nights, Crystal and I ran up to the Dale Chihuly museum Garden and Glass.  It was an exhibit that I had hoped to see and is truly an impressive exhibit, some of which resonated with certain biological issues that we are studying.

 

Walk now

Hey Seattle and peeps in Seattle: Hopefully I’ll see you soon and with some time to look around in the daylight.

 

 

7 Replies to “Walking In Seattle… At Night”

  1. Great shots!
    I’ll have to get to those Museums.

    Just curious…We’re most of these shot with the new Fuji? I am eager to try one out, but I’m afraid I’ll love it and have to buy one. I am not sure about giving up the canon gear, or the concept of having two sets of lenses, flash, etc.

    1. Thanks man. Those shots were made with my Canon. This trip was actually before I picked up the Fuji, back in early May. I’m not quite ditching the Canon gear yet and have a gig where I’m using it next month, but I gotta say… the Fuji is always in my hand.

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