Thursday, November 20, 2008

Sorting Through Old Picutres




Annie Leibovitz at Benaroya Hall


Last night I met up with some friends from UW's photo program to hear Annie Leibovitz speak at Benaroya Hall. It was definitely worth ditching a class to see the world's most famous photographer, and we managed to get some pretty awesome seats.

She mostly read from her new book, but she was surprisingly funny when she stopped reading and started interacting with the audience. I wish she'd spoken a bit more about Susan Sontag, but I guess I showed up to the wrong book tour for that.

I took my little G9 and managed to snap a few sharp pictures, even in the low light.



Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Barack Obama, Our Next President

In celebration of last night's election, I'm posting some snapshots I took a year ago at an Obama rally in Seattle:




And then some snaps from election night. Our first look at the new first family on TV:


In Seattle, people were chanting, dancing in the street, and swinging from the stoplights: