elfs | Miscellaneous recent photography

Gaaaaaaaaah

I had to go downtown to pick up a book at the library, and as I walking I passed by one of the former ground-level WaMu office centers, I noticed that it was just... gone. Like that. At street level. I pushed the camera up against the glass and took this picture.

The filename is a low-frequency manga onomatopoeia indicating "the sound of an empty office" or "a large room with no soul about."

Sunset at Westlake Center

Later, I was in Westlake Center to buy Omaha some chocolate– and I wasn't even in the doghouse, see what a good husband I am?– and the sun was going down Pine Street. It was so colorful I had to capture it.

Unfortunately, the best photograph of the evening didn't come out. I was on the bus heading home, and as we got onto the Viaduct, a woman was sitting with her back to the sunset. It was deeper, redder, and even prettier than above. I wanted to capture the image, but my camera isn't fast enough to do that on a bouncing bus. Which is a bit of a shame because she was ignoring all this beauty going on behind her while she read Sunset magazine.