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Tomorrow we will return to things Japanese. I still have another half dozen or so decent pictures of Seattle that I may resurrect at some point in the future, but for now we’ll give Seattle a rest.
Today’s photograph is of the Space Needle as reflected in the Experience Music Project exterior. The blue building on the right is the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame.
From across the street of the Gates Foundation parking garage you can see this view. Included is a artsy wall of sorts (on the right), Experience Music Project (lower left), the Space Needle (of course), and if you look really closely (it’s easier to see if you click on the image) you can even see the planet Venus in the sky. Of course, Venus isn’t there every evening. I got lucky.
Scene from Pike Place Market
I learned a nifty photography trick a few months back. Many modern digital cameras (I use a Canon S3 which has this feature) allow you to take three pictures in rapid succession at differing exposure lengths. Using a program like Photomatix to combine the three images into one photo offers the advantage of uniform coloration throughout the picture (instead of having the sky whited out by focusing on a ground object or the ground be too dark by focusing on the sky).
The problem is that you have to use a tripod to capture the three images or the combined image will be blurry. My tripod is a whopping 4″ or so and therefore is of very limited use in most situations. For the above photograph there was a bench near the fountain so I used the bench to balance my tiny tripod on. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) it resulted in a very cooked image. I didn’t have time to retake the pictures with the tripod straightened out as the people I was with were freezing.
Instead I rotated the images after combining them to yield the above result which I rather like for a change of pace. You can tell I blended multiple pictures by the airplane in the upper left.
The fountain, by the way, is known as the International Fountain and is located in the Seattle Center along with Experience Music Project and many other attractions. We were going to have lunch in the Space Needle, but unfortunately, they are closed for renovations until mid-February.
P.S. I looked at this picture under Explorer and it looks horrible. For best results try viewing this blog in Chrome (or probably anything else other than Explorer which is a slow, lousy browser anyway).
The center point of the interior of the Experience Music Project is the mostly guitar sculpture, “IF VI WAS IX: Roots and Branches.” More than 500 instruments are included in the tornado-shaped work by Trimpin. Through the use of robotics and computers this sculpture actually plays music.
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