After a Sounders goal. They won 3-0.

On a sidewalk somewhere.

It’s anime convention time – Sakura Con 2009.  I don’t know much about anime, but a lot of people spent a lot of time getting dressed up for it:

more here.

I love it that the flowers are blooming right about now.

The first one is taken right outside my building, the second one is from the Quad at the UW campus.

I have to admit, I didn’t really know anything about Kurt Cobain when he actually died, but his lyrics, and his songs, and his untimely death touched a lot of people, to this day.  So much so that people still come to this bench outside his (old) home in Seattle, and leave flowers every year.

Tilt-shift photography has been around for a long time.  Tilt changes the plane of focus, from the regular vertical plane (parallel to the film), to intersect the film (or sensor) at different angles.  This is why you only see a horizontal band of the picture in focus.  Shift changes the perspective of the photo, to either make parallel lines more or less parallel.

These days, there’s been a resurgence of tilt-shift-like photography, although the focus (no pun intented) is more on the tilt side of things.  The real appeal is that it makes the photo look like a miniature model.  There’s all sorts of software (fairly simple really, just apply blur) that will allow you to turn a regular photo into a tilted photo.

Now there’s even an online tool.

Here’s the original.

For living right next to it, I don’t walk the sculpture park enough.  But I was there the other day as the sun was setting, and ran into some red chairs and sailboats.  More redness here.

No, not this freeze, more like this freeze. This past Saturday, Improv Everywhere hosted an event where people froze in the middle of the plaza by Westlake Center for 5 minutes. More pictures here, and someone also posted a youtube.

I couldn’t go boarding today, so I thought I’d share a photo from Mt Baker I took while boarding a couple of weeks ago. It was a beautiful day (much like today is so far), but with snow surrounding me.

The light trails are those of a plane flying by.