EMP Museum and Seattle Center

The EMP Museum in Seattle is home to several really cool pop culture exhibits with great original props and costumes. My favorite were probably the items from The Princess Bride - they had Buttercup's wedding dress, the Dread Pirate Roberts and Inigo Montoya's outfits, and the six-fingered glove among other things. Other shots here are scenes in/around the Seattle Center.

lately

Lately: I got a new lens (Olympus M. Zuiko 45mm f/1.8), my brother came to town, and we visited the Living Computer Museum and the Pacific Science Center. The new lens is a lot more telephoto than I'm used to with my normal prime shooting, but it produces excellent sharpness and really smooth/dramatic background blur, and I'm enjoying getting to know it. On Saturday, we head back to Illinois for the holidays.

Family Visit: Part 1

My parents and my brother all flew in to Seattle early Friday afternoon. We hung out at our place a bit and then headed off to the Space Needle. We got lucky with the weather considering the season; it was minimally foggy and not really raining. After we walked around the perimeter of the needle for a while we went inside to have a beer, however, it completely fogged over outside, so we timed it just right.

We headed to the Chilhuly glass museum and garden after that, featuring the works of a very famous glass artist. It was great to see this stuff at dusk/evening because the lighting made things really glow. A Cajun dinner at Toulouse Petit after that finished off the evening. That place is amazing, I highly recommend it. More to come soon...

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