Golden Gardens - Shilshole Bay - Seattle, WA
Last month we were in Seattle visiting family and attending and shooting a cousin's wedding. The wedding ceremony was at Golden Gardens (Shilshole Bay) just NW of downtown Seattle and right on the Puget Sound. I hadn't been to Golden Gardens since my college days at Seattle Pacific University and needed some time to scout a few possible photo opp locations for the happy couple. I actually wanted to get a photo with the couple on the train tracks but decided against it for various reasons. The trains run pretty slow but I didn't want to be the one responsible for killing the couple on their first day of marriage, especially since they are family... Emily's family. Not such a good idea right?
In my travels to find an easy way onto the train tracks for a possible shot, I wandered through the pedestrian tunnel under the train tracks and found what I thought to be some pretty cool looking graffiti. I especially liked the colors, the blue mushroom and the frog troll prince guy. I ended up using this graffiti train tunnel as a backdrop for one of the wedding photos which I will post later.
Seattle is home to some very cool and very funky people who produce some very cool and very funky art. It makes for a fantastic place to shoot in addition to the scenery of course... well, when its not raining.
Enjoy!
