Today was a really good day, I’m totally exhausted now of course but wait till you hear what I did.
This morning I got up at 8am (it was raining, so I guess summer is now over) and I headed out to pick up Chris Pearson (my photo buddy). We hit the road and headed to Seattle (still raining – and the 520 bridge was closed for the weekend so we had to go the long way across the I90).
We arrived in Seattle at 9am and went to Pike Place Market to go on a Photography Walking Tour. The tour lasted around 3 hours and we had a blast. I’ve lived here 10 years but still learnt some new stuff about the city. Our guide took us through the Market, past the “Gum Wall” (more on that in another posting), down Post Alley to the Art Museum, then down to the water front, and finally along the water then back up to the market. It was fabulous and I too over 500 pictures. (I bracketed a lot so really it was around 200 images).
Chris and I grabbed some lunch in Seattle and then headed home. I then loaded the car with LOADS of camera gear and went off to shoot my first High School Senior photo shoot (more on that in the future too). 2 Hours later I was all done and headed home totally knackered!
Got in at 6:30pm – What a day!
I should say here that while the weather started off wet, once the walking tour started everything dried up and even the sun came out. So it was a complete success. I have loads of cool images to post, but Abi selected tonight’s shot. We checked out the entrance of the city Art Museum while on the tour and they had these amazing cars hanging from the ceiling with neon (or LED, not sure) lights coming out of the cars. It was very “arty” and looked fantastic! I took loads of shots and selected this one as my favorite to post. I think there were five cars in total, here I’m catching two of them. The problem was, the lights kept blinking on and off and timing it right to get the picture below took a long time. In the end I just held the shutter down to get the lights right and the result was great.
Really good day, love using Shutter Tours (here is their website, check them out: http://www.shuttertours.com/), and got some great shots.
The guys are getting stressed out waiting for the new Halo game to come out. So they decided to try some Yoga to relax.
