A trip to Gas Light Park, COVID, Saturday, what could be the problem? MOBBED! Parking a short walk away, we got to walk the waterfront and see cool stuff like piles of anchors.

#1 or #1. Some people like #1 and some like #2. I know they look similar but the light and color is different on the flowers and the sub and the angle as well……details.

#2 I like the color and angle and crop better but maybe the submersible is not so great???

I think this is lake union, and I have never seen a floating dry dock before, too bad we couldn’t trespass and get closer for better angles and closeups….

A throw away scene of people I do not know but I kind of liked it and its a documentary shot that I was there….for anyone who cares in the great internet future when they exhume my photos from pixel hell and I get that great gallery showing in some virtual rebirth a la PK Dick/ Ubik meets Gibson / Neuromancer…..

I think I said it all. Dominique, one of her nice Stetsons, in a brisk wind at Gas Works Park in Seattle…..

The widest view I was going to get that day of Gas Works Park, yea, I did play the colors and try to correct the noon day sun washing out the sky….maybe I am over compensating for something….I usually am :-)

Once upon a Western, a mask and a Stetson…..was a villain….well, here its just a stylish lady and COVID masks in Gas Works Park in Seattle..

Is this the one…Sonja gave a picture painted by a local artist in Seattle of the gas works….like she gave it to us almost 10 years ago on our last trip to Seattle….and we forgot it there…..and they forgot to bring it to us in London….so we THINK this is the angle the artist used in the painting, which YOU, the only person to read this far, will NOT see unless I invite you to my house or post a photo of it and then the internet will know the wonders that are my PIXELS. Just mine, not yours.

Throw away tourist pic

I have a picture of her MOTHER that her FATHER took with the SAME look of disdain….that one was called “Non, pas de photo….”

At least this tourist shot has somebody you care about, oh Internet readers! Stetsons! Boats! Are you not entertained?!??!!

No idea who these guys were but they were jamming’ in Gas Works Park…..

Low angle tight apeture shot trying to get the teensy cutesy flowers with the gas works structures fuzzed out in the background….my back does NOT like getting that low to the ground….

No, not really but it IS integrated into the portion of the Gas Works Park turned over to those little cretin’s also known as children. It was a throw away photo until the treatments elicited a mumble from my pre-reviewer, her of the Stetson……

Rivets, bolts, chunky metal stuff and a tight aperture…..plus black and white treatment…..other previewers of this photo seemed to think it was interesting……

I have a thing for sewer covers…..turns out, there is a whole instagram interwebz thing as well about sewer covers…..

I have no idea what Line 3 is, why it should be defunded or why these graphic artists put so much energy into these posters, but I can say from a purely Bougy perspective that is moi, I thought they were cute

I like this one, it appealed before the massive amount of treatment I did in Lightroom, precisely the thing I wanted was the concrete pieces cantilevered on each other….and yes, you at the back of the internet, I realize there is another Defund Line 3 poster that if I was MORE diligent and exacting, I would have SCRAPPED this P.O.S and made sure I left the poster in ULTRA-COLOUR oversaturated glory, offset with the black and white…….but man, I already take WAY took much time to edit my photos….

Not really, and I actually grew to like this photo, yes, the color is a bit overcorrected and garish (that green…..) but the shapes lined up quite nicely and someone who just happens to live with me and wears a Stetson BUT is actually kind of a real artist type person drawer type….she liked the composition too.

As I write this I am TIRED…..fresh out of quality snarkiness…… time for dinner…..A large red marine crane behind the yellow flowers whose name I am sure my wife knows….

Floating houseboats, quite chi-chi, under the Fremont Bridge

Not really…..Dominque taking advantage of a tourist distraction for her pleasure and amusement. Under the Fremont bridge

Dr Who is doesn’t know but the Tardis will retire someday and become a quiet bridge in Fremont, but only after Marvin the Paranoid Android’s 48th time through the entire universe.

Whenever I shoot an industrial or other scene and the color or something doesn’t quite work, I drop it into B&W because that makes it all better.

Dominique, Sonia, and Samuel during our visit to Seattle May 2021. Here we are in a street off the main drag in Columbia City, headed to a gallery featuring some work by an artist Sonja an example of which Sonja had purchased for us years ago....We finally came (back) to Seattle and its back in Boston/Dorchester…..

Dominique in the background with her Stetson and Min/Mon bag, foreground is some alliums on a corner in Columbia City. May 2021.

Sounds like a Skinny Puppy song from the 80s (actually, Stairs and Flowers was one of there songs. Seattle hydrants, this one in the clutch of alliums in Columbia City, May 2021.

A piece of wood, really a branch, that has been etched by worms or some boring (not uninteresting, tunneling) insect where the branch has been sectioned into thin sheets exposing the tracings within. By Suze Woolf, at Columbia City Gallery. May 2021.

Work at the Columbia City Gallery, May 2021

Credit for the work, at Columbia City Gallery May 2021

It amused me to try and photograph the collection.

Dominique does not like surprises and even less, being photographed! May 2021

Casting my pixels to the inter webs, maybe someday this pic will be archived on a vat of bio-goo in a Arcturan clone vat. May 2021.

Or should I title this illuminating? I had a WHOLE THING FOR THIS and square space and apple conspired to lose it! I mean, something about will these pixels survive the heat death of the universe, or at least, the reddening bloat of Sol???? Maybe WHO CARES, or, shit, am I running in simulation and …….. I should be nicer now….because the future is vindictive…..shit I am so mad I lost that nice riff…..May 2021, Columbia City Gallery, listening to Blue Spiral

There, I said it all. Not really. It was a Friday unlike any Friday, it was cool, well, it was Seattle. A detail from Geraldine’s in Columbia City while I was queuing to get a cocktail and sandwich order for the group. Mid Mod, except, if, again, this is in simulation, Mid of what Mod? Context and reference. Is intelligence mutually intelligible across such divides as chemistry? a few billion years? what if we share a neural architectural, a biology, what about language? referents?

Blooming a Sonja and Gino’s front door in Redmond plateau

Sonja and Gino’s cat out in their front yard

Not quite focussed, cute flowers on the side of the road as we went for a walk around Redmond plateau

Trying to save a photo that did not live up to my expectations.

I liked the moss on the roof over the post boxes, out on a walk around Redmond plateau

Moss grew with vigor in the woods around Sonja and Gino’s, it coated everything.

Light pouring through the tree canopy in the Redmond plateau.

I wonder if this works as a photo?

Very overcast day, so my water and sky treatments are wonky. But what I really wanted to notice was….NO HIGHWAY! The last time we were in Seattle the horrid highway blocked the view! Now its GONE, a tunnel in its place…..

I liked this beacon the first time I saw it oh ten or more years ago….

Heavy treatmentment to lift the light and color of the cement and the steering wheel.

Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, May 2021

Giant head at the olympic sculpture park.

Homage to a logging past

Dominique and Sonja amongst the massive steel sculpture

Viewed from the Gates Amphitheater

Not sure what this was called, I think we saw this at an MFA Boston installation a few years ago…..This was immense, no way to get it all without multiple shots or a super wide lens….

No, that is just what I made up for this one. I did a few angles. This photo sets the scene of how large the room was. These sculptures are suspended from the ceiling and large than a human.

Our eldritch masters frozen in glass…..

It was due to the blue one hanging away from the walls that you could rotate around it and frame different shots….the other ones were too close to the walls to get behind them……at least with the telephoto lens I had with me….

I just like the crispness of the blue glass and the bokeh of the white glass……I am happy with this one.

Again, my name for it, we definitely saw this one in Boston MFA, it is iconic. For the photo nerds like me, I DID NOTHING TO THIS PHOTO. Except the RAW to JPG conversion and export to JPG for Squarespace (no deep color, no JPG2000, no nothing and nothing bigger than 20MB, f*cking pain and I am too lazy to move all this stuff somewhere else)

No, not really the name of it, but hey, WHO IS EVEN READING THIS? Shot from below, I had some difficulty with the focus since I WAS UPSIDE DOWN ON MY BACK IN THE DARK. There, I said it, the struggle is real folks. And…..there goes my site down in flames…..

Not really, but this entire greenhouse inspired structure was purpose built the Chiluly to build this sculpture. The spiraling and the immensity. Quite over the top. Technically, this was a pain to recover in post-processing, I had no way to get a better angle and the sun was overhead….horrible lighting conditions.

Space needle and Chiluly greenhouse boa…….Again, super manipulated as the sky beyond the glass was whited out……

Not the best shot, but the pairing of the rhododendron color with the sculpture color married with the verticality of the Space Needle and the sculpture……

No, left to right, Sonja in plaid with hate, Gino with backpack and Ms Chouteau with Stetson and blond mane.

Baby fern unfurling at the base of the Space Needle, fronds uncurling towards the same sun. Are they pulled to the sky by the sun against the warped spacetime at the core of the earth?

No, it would be if I had lined it up better but getting a stationary shot of Ms Chouteau at Chiluly glass musuem is like photographing a 3 year old at the lego store after a few too many Freeze Pops……

I tried some action shooting, did I get her?

No idea what the hell the exhibits were called…..I wish I had framed this one better, I couldn’t crop into obedience….unlike a bad jockey at the Derby…..yeah, I know, Dad jokes…..the best….

The fronds really went well with the black glass in the back but I couldn’t get everything in focus (wrong aperture) and light metering was off……argh…..so much to learn.

My favorite shot that was not a Chiluly piece solely…..Steel and masonite, orange glass tentacles….I really like the handle with vibrant reflection on the middle right…….Very happy. I think I will print this one.

Throw away shot but it is documentary and since I don’t post this crap or stuff, indulge me a few persona shots of non-photographic interest…..

Beyond stupid levels of photo manipulation were required to rescue this disaster of a shot….but we don’t just take photos for aesthetic sometimes we also are tourists in our own lives….

Meh….was an attempt…

So? What? At least the color and focus are good and the comp is decent……yeah, so we are gonna pollute the cosmos some day with our atomic backups of all the damn pixels and words that ALL LOOK THE SAME. Imaging running a lossy compression on the datasphere that is the human photoblogging sphere?????? NOT MUCH LOST I would wager…..

I dunno, I like this one, plus my wife’s current favorite hat made it through the crop……