Weekend 6 (Sunday): Pike Place Market and Downtown Seattle

Weekend 6: Sunday, Downtown Seattle, Pikes Place Market
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After the ride to Windy Ridge observatory on Saturday, I decided to give my legs a break. Instead of hitting the hills, I hopped on a bus to downtown Seattle. By comlete chance I got off two blocks from Pike Place Market; a beautiful coincidence. I ended up walking around the city for around five hours, filling the memory card with pictures. Not a whole lot to be said except that Seattle truly is beautiful.
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With that, I’ll leave you to the best of Seattle that I could locate in a view finder.

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Welcome to the market!

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Pike Street looking towards Pine Street. Interesting shops and stands populate both sides of the street, the main market is on the left side of the street in this picture, covered from the rain by a building.
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Just look at that smile. I miss Zach.

Street performers are everywhere.

These pigs are to Seattle as the Cows are to Boston.

Rats with wings.

The Seattle Sports arenas.

Inside the market building. (It never fails: Whenever I raise the camera high to snap one of these photos, there is always at least one D-bag that destroys the candid shot by giving a great big goofy-ass grin (There are actually 7 in this picture). The main man, “Mr. Red-shirt” here, was lucky enough to place himself directly in the center of my picture. Well, Mr. Red-shirt, now you’re famous. You’ve made my blog! In all actuality, I really like this picture. The lines, the lighting, the slight blur giving movement, and the fact that in a frame full of strangers there is a weird personal connection with a few of them makers it pretty sweet).

These flower vendors are EVERYWHERE. So bright, so fresh, and so ridiculously cheap.

Shapes, lines, colors. Necklaces of the market.

Look closely.

Fresh veggies.

Badger, badger, badger, badger!! mushroom, MUSHROOM!!!

Tic-Tac-Toe, anyone?

From experience: A bundle of Asparagus such as this will not likely last (without beginning to destroy the once pleasant smell of your refrigerator) for more than a week(ish).

For Becky.

Delicious fish, fresh off the boat that morning.

The fish market. Check out how the fish he just threw matches the curve of the fish on the wall. PURE luck.

For Dizz: So the next mural will be more lifelike.

Fishy.

Pike Place Fish Co. The crowds that gather to watch a few college-age kids throw around fish (real: to eachother, stuffed: at the customers) and shout at random times is quite amusing.

A place that actually rivals Dr. Mirenda's kitchen in terms of spice variety. Tas-tea (get it?).

What'd I do?!

Reflection in the Seattle Library. That place is HUGE, and the architecture is incredible. This is a piece of the building protruding off of the main structure over the sidewalk.

My new hair Salon.

BLUE!

The Space needle, being visible from nearly every location in the greater Seattle area, makes it a great object to photograph. Hence, the billion postcards all boasting its large frame and giant point among the downtown skyline. While I circled the city from towntown through Belltown, I just kept snapping away. So, without further ado, the space needle:

I like the flag in this one.

SWEET.

It's GINORMOUS.

I've been pretty obsessed with sky/cloud shots.

Metropolitan Eastern Sky.

Angry Western Sky.

Community theatre at a park in Belltown.

The sunsets over the Puget sound can range from spectacular to downright dull. It all depends on whether there are clouds in the western sky when the sun goes down. Luckily, the angry sky of Sunday made f0r a incredible view as the hour hand crept toward 10 PM.

Boats of Alaskan Way.

Playing with shutter speed priority.