Seattle: Part 1
A lot of my shots this time around were insanely underexposed for some reason. I’m not sure what I was doing differently, but I was really sad because only a few indoor photos came out, which means only a few photos of my friends and family exist from this trip! I guess that’s the downside to film – you don’t quite know what you’ll get. I took a photo of my niece and she said immediately “I want to see!” and I could not for the live of me get her to understand that I wasn’t using a digital camera, so she couldn’t see the photo. It was hilarious.
Anyway, you can click on the photos for more info, but the basics are that we stayed at the Ace for a few days (highly recommended, it was just as fantastic as the Portland location) and just tried to take in the scenery as much as possible. Every time I go home my mind is blown by how beautiful it is in the Northwest, and how much I took that for granted growing up there. It also could have had something to do with the fact that we got incredibly lucky with the weather and had clear blue skies most of the time – making everything look more fantastic than usual.
It was hard to go home – it’s hard watching your family get older and you’re so far away. But then as soon as they start driving you nuts you just think about how nice it is:)
June 17th, 2010 at 11:25 am
Love the first photo, it’s always fun to see new photos from a place you’ve never been too. Best wishes, Ida in Norway
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June 17th, 2010 at 11:30 am
Great photos, I love your blog:) Especially love that your niece could not understand that you were not shooting digital … hilarious!
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June 17th, 2010 at 11:32 am
Seattle is one of the only places I’ve gone where I could see myself moving too. I just love it there. Your trip looks fantastic. Man, the Ace is SO COOL. Did you see the big gum wall by the market? I just read an article on it and I have a piece of my mine stuck up there somewhere.
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June 17th, 2010 at 11:34 am
That also happened to me. My friends offered me a Lomo Super Sampler for my birthday and after I took a picture of my nephew I had a hard time trying to explain why he couldn’t see the picture. You really feel a generation gap on those moments, right?
Looks like you had fun and those outdoor pics look great.
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June 17th, 2010 at 11:53 am
You start right out with the big guns! Pike place. You are making me miss Seattle fer real.
We are trying to figure out an end of summer road trip, we are pretty sure it must involve Portland (my bestest lives there and we have not been in SO LONG.) We were thinking driving up there from down here, but these make me want to fly up there, then have an Oregon-Washington trip!!!
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June 17th, 2010 at 11:55 am
I love the photos that did come out!
There’s just something about holding photography film prints in your hands.
Digital and film are so different, I love them both though!
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June 17th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
I love seeing Seattle from someone else’s eyes, it always renews it for me.
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June 17th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Oh good, you went to Kerry Park! I love the view from there. I’m glad the weather cooperated while you were in town, but it seems to have turned right around! I don’t think we’ve had a perfectly dry day since Sunday.
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June 17th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
you are so talented! these are amazing!!!
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June 17th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Ha ha ha, reading the last sentence after a row with my (thankfully living far away) mum made me smile. just what i needed. thanks!
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June 17th, 2010 at 8:24 pm
your photography is awesome- what cam do u uses?
great blog btw ! lovely pics
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June 17th, 2010 at 9:33 pm
i love seattle! it is such a great place – i can’t wait to go back.
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June 17th, 2010 at 10:26 pm
This looks like such a wonderful time Kate! What a lovely vacation…. End Grandma style comment here…
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June 18th, 2010 at 12:16 am
You are so good at deciding the order of the photos in a way that makes each one pop. It’s like a good mix-tape-transition skill.
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June 18th, 2010 at 3:00 am
your pictures are gorgeous. especially the second one is extremely nice :)
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June 18th, 2010 at 7:42 am
yay for seattle! can’t wait to go in August. these photos got me so excited…
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June 18th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
I had the exact same thing happen with my niece! she couldn’t understand it at all!
re: your underexposed pictures, have you checked the battery level? also, with my canon ftb the correct battery has been discontinued so I use a replacement battery which doesn’t fit the mount properly, so I always have to overexpose every picture one full stop. you still got lovely pics though!
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June 18th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Elena- I use a Canon A-1. I love it to pieces.
Famapa- last night I discovered that I had my aperture set to 22 instead of auto (so that I can use the controls on the camera body instead) and that’s what my issue was. So angry!! But luckily I was outdoors most of the time so it wasn’t a total loss. My camera actually doesn’t work at all without a battery (which sucks when it stops working in the middle of something.) Those 6 volts are so effing expensive, too!
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June 19th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
Oh my goodness! My husband and I just got back from Seattle for our honeymoon! We stayed at the Ace Hotel our last night there. I miss that city already, it’s a beautiful place.
The photos are wonderful, sorry some of them didn’t turn out.
nicole
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