Here are a couple of images that I took in my apartment building as I was leaving for work on Thursday morning. I’d been wanting to go on a photostroll all week, but I really didn’t know what I wanted to shoot and the weather hasn’t been so great. Luckily, Thursday was Utata Thursday Walk 100, and I figured I’d just pick up my camera and take a few pics as I walked down the stairs from my apartment to the parking garage.
I didn’t have any particular plan of attack for the 5-10 minutes that I ended up shooting for. I just put my 50/1.4 on my D300, opened the lens up all the way to f/1.4, and snapped away. Good light and interesting lines presented themselves to me, so I took those shots. I do find it interesting that my two favorites shots from the morning ended up having strong diagonal lines from bottom left to upper right. I guess once I get into a groove, I stick with it.
It was sunny in Seattle on Saturday. It was sunny and warm, and it’s still technically winter. I took advantage of the nice weather and spent all afternoon strolling around downtown Seattle and taking pictures. The light was good to me that day, and, fortunately, I was paying attention. Here are my two favorite shots from the weekend:
Interesting story about the first image. The roofline above Pike Place market is lined with daffodils, but I think most people completely ignore them. Being the flare/starbust junkie that I am, I deliberately looked up to see if the sun lined up for an interesting photo and noticed that it was positioned perfectly behind the flowers. When I was taking this shot, I had a few people come over and ask me what I was looking at and let them chimp a few images. They seemed surprised to know there were flowers up there.
The second image was a completely reactionary shot. I was walking down Pine towards Pike Place Market around 3:30 in the afternoon and saw the gorgeous long shadows of all the people in front of me. Without thinking, I started watching the patterns on the ground and snapped a few photos as I was walking. Walking past Westlake Mall with a camera in my face during a busy Saturday afternoon probably wasn’t the safest thing to do — I almost collided with a few people and nearly walked over a kid — but I had to do what I had to do to get my shot.
Lomo LC-A and Agfa CT Precisa cross processed. Love it! I might have to try more of these types of city night shots while Mia is away on a business trip.
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