Red - PCNW - Assignment 2

Red - PCNW - Assignment 2
Originally uploaded by El Gregein

This is red (obviously). I was having trouble with red until I remembered that I associate red with Dutch design (That may have something to do with the White Stripes, whose whole visual style was taken from the Dutch, and whose second album De Stijl, was named after a Dutch artistic movement. It then dawned on me that I was just a few blocks away from the Seattle Public Library, designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. The library with the Red Room. Lightbulb! This is the result.

Yellow - PCNW - Assignment 2

Yellow - PCNW - Assignment 2
Originally uploaded by El Gregein

From an assignment at Photographic Center Northwest, where I'm taking a class this fall. The assignment is to photograph something that represents colors of the rainbow, while using a white balance that gives the image a cast of one of the colors. It's not necessary to have something of the color in the photos. This is yellow. I wanted to use the sun, hence the deliberate backlighting.

high five

high five
Originally uploaded by El Gregein

From one generation to another. At Westlake Center (again) in Seattle.

Masked protesters

Masked protesters
Originally uploaded by El Gregein

Protesting Scientology through masks at Seattle's Westlake Center.

Des Moines Beach Park

Des Moines Beach Park
Originally uploaded by El Gregein

Des Moines Beach Park on the shores of Puget Sound in lovely Des Moines, WA, about 15 miles south of Seattle.

Haunted apartment building

Haunted apartment building
Originally uploaded by El Gregein

An apartment building on Seattle's Capitol Hill is ready for Halloween.

Lighthouse and wheel

Lighthouse and wheel
Originally uploaded by El Gregein

In the Fun Forest at Seattle Center. For those who've never been there, the Fun Forest is this fading relic from the 1962 World's Fair. It's an amusement park, of rusty, peeling paint sorts, that takes up a good portion of the Seattle Center grounds. It's the kind of place that people flock to on weekends in the summer, and at other times it's a ghost town. Very Scooby Doo, you can also hear the voice of Casey Kasem.

cuidado

cuidado
Originally uploaded by El Gregein

A merry-go-round horse in distress. From the Fun Forest at Seattle Center

objects in mirror

objects in mirror
Originally uploaded by El Gregein

Scooter mirror in Georgetown, Seattle

Alley behind the palace

Alley behind the palace
Originally uploaded by El Gregein

Reflected window light in the alley behind the Palace Kitchen in Seattle. I saw the light from about a block away. It came from a building with these amberish windows, which gave a nice warm to the brick building across the alley.

Stairs

Stairs
Originally uploaded by El Gregein

These are the stairs leading from Pike Place Market down to Post Alley. I liked the curve of the railing and the way it leads the eye down to the bottom of the stairs. The man walked into the frame by accident, I like how he is in alignment with the post.