Is It Summer Yet?
Ok so like I said in the last blog, I’m in Seattle. I’ve never been out here before, so I’m still just getting used to the whole deal. But no matter how hard I try, I just can’t get past the crappy weather. I think coming from Florida it’s hard to move anywhere else. It’s just not pretty here, and the weather is aweful. Just dark, gray, rain and COLD. It’s even been snowing the past few days. I haven’t seen snow in almost 11 yrs now. So you can imagine how that makes me feel when I see snow.
With all this cold weather, I haven’t been spending much time outside. I try to get out of the cold as much as possible. Back in Florida I used to turn the heat on when my apt was 74 degrees. Here it doesn’t break 74 in the summer even. How aweful is that?
One day, there was a break in the over cast sky. So I decided to shoot some pictures off the balcony of the apt here in Seattle. I then decided to create a panorama of the pictures I shot. Photoshop Elements takes the pictures you shoot, and then combines them, to give you one big shot. I think I took something like 6-7 pictures for this scene.
The apt faces the water. I think they call this the Puget Sound. You can see the different Islands is the distance, when you look out. But in this shot, it’s the little bits of land staright out from where you’re looking. In real life the objects appear bigger, but when I shot the scene I zoomed out, to allow more into the frame.
The boats all the way over to the left, are ferries, that carry people and cars over to the various Islands. The boats that are more toward the center and right are tour type boats. They all dock at the pier. The roadway you see I think is called the Alaskan Via duct. It’s a double decker set up. The upper level goes one way and the layer below goes in the other. Below that, is the local street level. The apt is 22 floors up, just to give you some sense of perspective.
Anyway, hope you enjoy the pic.
March 12th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Awesome shot! I still can’t believe you are on the opposite corner of the US from me now. But look at you taking pictures again! I was looking for fairies….but you said ferries. haha Different animals altogether. This is really a nice view…well…except for the smoke stack over there. Tell them to shut that off so you can take a good picture without showing all of us the air pollution going on. =)