Recently seen
in and around Seattle –
the hard and the soft,
rigid and supple,
all a part
of
some mysterious whole,
I suppose.
Photos taken with an Android phone (2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th) and a DSLR (!st, 3rd). Processed in Lightroom and/or Perfect Effects.
The white flower is a magnolia, the orange & pink ones are coneflowers (Echinacea). The building at the bottom is a new University of Washington Medicine Research Center in Seattle.
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Looks like you’re having a time exploring my old hometown. When I was there at the end of June/beginning of July, when the relatives were complaining about the heat and wanted to do nothing…I was gadding about in a hoodie and borrowed socks. Thanks for the photos !
Later…
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So funny! And believable. Yes, I’m still enjoying it and I expect I will be for a long time. Today we went to Gasworks Park – finally! And what a glorious day it was there – the seaplanes flying overhead, all manner of boats in the lake, kids skateboarding & flying kites, a wedding taking place, and of course all that crazy old equipment to gawk at. I was thinking it must be cool on a foggy night too.
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Yeah, Gasworks is kind of unique. We played a show there one night waybackwhen the Seattle music scene was THE music scene. Better than letting the place rust into a haven for vice like many cities would do.
Later…
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Great series of photos. (And to see that blue sky in the last one!) We have had nothing but rain for two months. Seems things are reversed.
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So you’ll have blue skies when we have nothing but gray later on? We should have an exchange program!
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🙂
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Wonderful!
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A very varied collection. I particularly like the echinacea and the first and last.
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Thanks Louis – aren’t the colors they’re getting in Echinaceas these days fun?
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What a fabulous variety of colour, texture and brilliance! I love the contrasts and simplicity of 2 and 4!
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Thanks – you can probably figure out what that 4th one is because I bet you see the same things in your wanderings They hung a decorative mesh thingie over the chain link fence to advertise the building. The bright sunlight helped.
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Color galore. Love that second shot. Would make for a great texture! 🙂
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Thanks – glad you like it. We have very clear air and blue skies here in the summer, so the colors can be intense. I will need to remember that in 6 months…
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Very interesting images, Lynn. I’d say the first three are my favorites, especially the coneflowers! The color in those is amazing!
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Thanks Cathy – it’s been heightened both in the camera and in processing – sometimes I like that, especially if it seems to express the way I felt about the colors when I saw them.
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Stunning selection of images!
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