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seattle-portland trip
Nov. 23rd, 2025 10:03 pmanother part of trying to catch up on posting pictures: things from our portland-seattle trip this past august.
during our flight to portland, we saw these peaks. no idea what they are, but the sunset made them look good:
while we spent a few days in portland, i think the only photogenic thing we saw was a garden:
the seattle convention center wasn't that interesting to photograph, but there was a wildflower garden on a terrace. these flowers look like foxgloves, but the leaves are wrong for that. still pretty.
the paramount, apparently a building of some note to local musicians, is across the street:
i like the detailing on the upper stories, even though it can't be seen from the street.
art museums are always good for pictures:
chinese porcelain with coral growing on it. clearly from a shipwreck, but we don't know which one. the coast guard seized this stuff from smugglers.
the folks living in the tigris-euphrates river valley in antiquity were really into frogs:
a glass vase, showing what one can do with the medium if one works at it:
some surreal things from one of ai wei wei's exhibits protesting the "great leap forward" and the brutal oppression of artists during it.
the chinese government lets him persist because this stuff gives certain westerners warm fuzzies about the "resistance" he's putting up, but his efforts achieve nothing. it's not like the commies have gone anywhere, or even been slightly tamed.
i don't have many pictures from the worldcon. panels and lectures aren't that interesting to photograph, and, sadly, neither was the class on making a movie in a weekend. (more on that with the worldcon posts, also running way behind.)
also, i somehow missed the memo on where and when the worldcon posed photography was, so i have only two pictures of costumed people worth showing.
somebody dressed up as baba yaga's hut:
and i really liked this steampunk adventurer:
i did get to talk to him for a while during the photography. while the leather parts of his costume are made for it, most of the rest is random recycled bits and pieces. the green light is part of a broken toy; i think he said it was a buzz lightyear.
during our flight to portland, we saw these peaks. no idea what they are, but the sunset made them look good:
while we spent a few days in portland, i think the only photogenic thing we saw was a garden:
the seattle convention center wasn't that interesting to photograph, but there was a wildflower garden on a terrace. these flowers look like foxgloves, but the leaves are wrong for that. still pretty.
the paramount, apparently a building of some note to local musicians, is across the street:
i like the detailing on the upper stories, even though it can't be seen from the street.
art museums are always good for pictures:
chinese porcelain with coral growing on it. clearly from a shipwreck, but we don't know which one. the coast guard seized this stuff from smugglers.
the folks living in the tigris-euphrates river valley in antiquity were really into frogs:
a glass vase, showing what one can do with the medium if one works at it:
some surreal things from one of ai wei wei's exhibits protesting the "great leap forward" and the brutal oppression of artists during it.
the chinese government lets him persist because this stuff gives certain westerners warm fuzzies about the "resistance" he's putting up, but his efforts achieve nothing. it's not like the commies have gone anywhere, or even been slightly tamed.
i don't have many pictures from the worldcon. panels and lectures aren't that interesting to photograph, and, sadly, neither was the class on making a movie in a weekend. (more on that with the worldcon posts, also running way behind.)
also, i somehow missed the memo on where and when the worldcon posed photography was, so i have only two pictures of costumed people worth showing.
somebody dressed up as baba yaga's hut:
and i really liked this steampunk adventurer:
i did get to talk to him for a while during the photography. while the leather parts of his costume are made for it, most of the rest is random recycled bits and pieces. the green light is part of a broken toy; i think he said it was a buzz lightyear.
