2 posts tagged “photography”
I spent an extended weekend in the beautiful Joshua Tree National Park in California, where spring has sprung and the desert is anything but deserted. I lugged along my swanky new DSLR camera and here are the results (uploading photos to Vox in Vista is a biyatch, so I finally got a Flickr account).
In the wee hours of this morning I happened to be at Kerry Park, the location on Queen Anne Hill which provides the postcard view that comes to most people's minds when they picture the Seattle skyline. From here, the Space Needle doesn't look as awkwardly detached from the skyscrapers as it in fact is, and on a clear day Mt Rainier floats ghostlike on the horizon to complete the picture perfect scene. Despite being in the midst of an excitable bachelorette party gathering, I just couldn't resist getting in a bit of impromptu landscape photography (see below). I think these turned out pretty well considering they were taken on my little SD600 (perfect for a tiny girls'-night-out handbag), but I definitely want to come back in the daytime this summer with my S2 IS and get my own postcard shots.
On a tangent, an update on my earlier post about Baker's Delight expanding into the States: I headed over to our newly-opened local during the week, and alas, no pullaparts! The baker on duty (South African - the one who was giving out free stuff last week was Kiwi - do they only hire antipodeans?) said they'd done market research which caused them to conclude that "American tastes are a little different", hence no pullaparts. All I can say is that if Americans don't like pullaparts, I have serious doubts about whether their taste buds work at ALL. Nonetheless - I grabbed a cheese and tomato twist, a couple of date scones and some cheesymite scrolls, and waltzed out a happy woman :)
