I should have known that it would snow today, way after all the daffodils bloomed with their fake news of spring. I was almost shivering taking these photos in the ice cold rain yesterday evening.
I was in Georgetown meeting with a couple comrades again, and decided to take the bus all the way to Oxbow Park first, to do another comparison shoot. But it was too cold and the gimmick I wanted to demonstrate was too finicky for me to stay very long.
Here you see the Canon Rebel SL1 I bought for work paired with the Powershot SX260 HD I’ve been talking about—but with a twist: did you know you can hack old Canon digicams to make them shoot in RAW? That’s a DNG or “digital negative” file in the second slide, set to show the full frame the sensor captures. Isn’t that wild?
The process is well documented online and doesn’t permanently alter your camera, which is great, but also means that you have to pretend you’re upgrading the firmware every time you turn the camera on, so it’s really just a fun little party trick as far as I’m concerned. I ended up taking more photos with the DSLR. Swipe to see the comparisons.
These oversized objects were apparently once part of a gas station. Here’s what the firm that created this space has to say about it:
“Oxbow Park is the result of a grassroots effort by Seattle’s Georgetown community to turn a vacant one-acre lot into a park and save the landmark historical “Hat ‘n’ Boots” structures, built in 1954 as part of a western-themed gas station just a couple blocks away from the park site. Laura Haddad worked with the community to establish a conceptual design with an “industrial cowboy” theme. Following that she worked with Jones & Jones Landscape Architects to develop the design. Oxbow Park won a WASLA Honor Award for its “defiant civic space” and “strong concept.””