Beam

Meanwhile, under the Cedar River bridge in Renton...

Rorshach: Wetland Twilight

Skyholes

Went to an outdoor art installation recently whch took place at sunset. There were luminaria and film projections and so on. However I found the minimalist -- well, stark -- setting more interesting.


Overflow parking area behind the Coke distribution center, Bellevue, Washington

The Terminator

No, not that Terminator.
"The line that separates the portions of the earth experiencing daylight from the portion of the planet experiencing darkness..."





Sunset across Boyd, Oregon, August 2010

Light in the Stalls

Powell's Books, Portland OR



Microsoft Building 30, Redmond WA



Park and ride, Mercer Island, WA

Lightworks

What would light be without darkness? As July draws to a close, here's a recap of Independence Day (2009), splendid lighting effects due not just to roman candles etc. but to a thousand pyromaniacs smoking up the atmosphere with unsafe and insane flammable product.


Watching from the other side of the street



Fireworks vendor



Hawking the wares



Lightworks



Bonfire of the manatees

Silver White Light

Rattlesnake Lake, covering what was Moncton, Washington.



The flooding was the natural but unforeseen outcome of the government building a dam above an adjacent lake.

Story and historical flooding photos

Visit the Cedar River Watershed visitors' center at Rattlesnake Lake.