Yet another day in Seattle

I love playing tour guide to out of town guests and I never get tired of showing off our beautiful Emerald City.  But YOU probably get tired of seeing the same ol’ photos every time we head to Seattle.  So today I attempted to approach the city with a new photographic perspective and take some photos that you haven’t seen before.  I had some success but fell victim to my old ways a few times as well.

First, my “failures”:

Oh look!  It’s the Space Needle!

And the same shot I’ve taken, without fail, every single time I stand in that spot.

Yawn.

Oh my god!  Watch out!  A flying saucer.

(Why do I even DO this?)

An eraser?  Yes, an eraser.  Just like the last time we were at the Olympic Sculpture Gardens.

Gee, how creative.  Uh huh.  (I think I need photography lessons.)

But I was able to shoot some new perspectives as well.

EMP (Experience Music Project) has walls that look like a microphone.

 

And ceilings that look like a meteor-riddled space station on Mars.

EMP (which has no straight lines, in case you haven’t noticed) from the Monorail platform.

A dumpster at Pike Place market.

Old and new.  (OK, I agree – not all that creative…)

The wall at the Olympic Sculpture Gardens museum.

A metal tree.  Really!

Orange (Kat) and orange (Art).

Kids at Golden Gardens at sunset.

I love this little boy and I don’t even know him.

It was a hot day (89 degrees, not 103 like last week) so we drank a lot of water.  Which meant that I saw a lot of bathroom floors.

At Pike Place Market:

At Spaghetti Factory, where we had an early dinner:

And at sandy Golden Gardens beach:

(TMI perhaps, but ya gotta admit – kinda interesting, eh?)

And of course we had to have a few pictures of people!

Elisabeth and Ulli:

Michael and Ulli and a salmon-on-planks barbeque at Golden Gardens:

Kat and Tom listening to the fountain.  No really – the water was synchronized with some great classical music.  Mesmerizing!

Kat!

Father and daughter:

It was a wonderful day but we’re all thoroughly exhausted!  Unfortunately tomorrow is a work day for me and Ulli and Michael will be heading south to spend a few days on the Oregon Coast and then to visit my dad in Ashland, Oregon.

Speaking of… have you given more thought to buying his house?