Sunset looking west from Seattle over Elliott Bay on a clear, unseasonably warm February evening

Elliott Bay

Downtown Seattle curves around Elliott Bay, which leads into Puget Sound. If you're so inclined, you can take a boat up the Sound into the Salish Sea, from where you can continue north to Vancouver or west into the Pacific. There are almost always container ships in the Bay, as well as ferries heading out from Seattle to Kitsap County and beyond. Cruise ships to Canada and Alaska also leave from the piers downtown.

From Belltown, where we live, the sun sets west across Puget Sound behind Bainbridge Island: the mountains in the background might be the Olympus mountains, but we haven't ventured out there yet...

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The Space Needle, from ground level at the Seattle Center, on a grey February day.

New city, new camera

I'm funemployed for the moment, and I unexpectedly got an honorarium from some volunteer work I did late last year, so I have treated myself to a new fun camera. I've always wanted an instant camera but I'm not a great photographer so I thought it would mean either a lot of wasted film, or would never get used. But someone I follow recently posted about the Instax Mini Evo, which might be the best of both worlds: a small internal memory (~40 shots, I think) and a print on demand function.

You can save digital copies of photos – but only if you've printed them first. I'm hoping that this will make me more conscientious about taking and printing photographs: I get the fun instant photo experience, but I have to commit to a physical copy if I want to share the digital one.

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