Today, I toured the 162,000 square foot Sound Transit Light Rail Link Maintenance Facility in SoDo. The facility acts as a “home base” for the light rail cars — they even get their weekly “car wash” there.

Light rail service from Seattle to Tukwila begins in July, with service to SeaTac Airport coming in December.

Full story here.

Over the last several months, I’ve been insanely busy juggling two different jobs, and haven’t had any time to update. Well, now I’m jobless, so problem solved.

I hope to post more often, and put useful content on here. So here we go…

The image above was taken at the Woodland Park Zoo last week. They did a “safe camping” demonstration — basically, showing what happens to your campsite when you leave your food out for the bears to grab. Here’s a link to the full gallery, and here’s a link to the video.

Yesterday I shot the casting call for Real World.

There were a lot of interesting people there. A lot of really “fake” people who would never get the part, and a lot of really quiet people who didn’t stand out.

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They did it for the first time ever.

Tomorrow I leave for L.A. to shoot the Pac-10 tournament.

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Tomorrow, the Huskies open their season at Fresno State.

The Daily ran a season preview today, link here.

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This weekend, the University of Washington power plant underwent emergency repairs to fix a crucial decades-old, cracked pipe. The plant was expected to be shut down, leaving the campus without heat or hot water for several hours, but engineers found a way to repair the pipe while keeping the plant running.

The video can also be seen on the Seattle P-I’s website.

I haven’t updated since Rome, so here are some pictures from the NCAA volleyball game I shot a few days ago. We lost.

Lately, I’ve been preparing for Winter quarter as photo editor at The Daily. I’ll post some more when I get time.

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I’m really behind on posting photos because I’m so busy lately.

More to come soon.

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This weekend, a fellow UW student and I went to Munich. There’s a huge contrast between anywhere in Italy and Munich. For example: I never ate a thing I didn’t love, I never met a person who wasn’t happy, and everything was extremely clean.

I didn’t take many pictures, rather, I shot a lot of video. I’ll post something eventually, but it might have to be once I return to Seattle. The MacBook Air isn’t equipped to handle that much video. I’m surprised I’ve been able to do as much as I have with it.

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This weekend I went to Naples.

In a nutshell, I spent 3 days wandering around a dirty, smelly, and poor city, and got scammed out of €75. I was buying an electronic device from a street vendor, and he played switcheroo in front of both my friend and I. It ended up being the most expensive bottle of water I ever bought.

But we went to Pompeii and Sorrento, too. Pompeii was cool to look at, and Sorrento was the best town I’ve seen here. The picture above is in Naples near the train station; the pictures below are random shots taken throughout the trip.

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