PDX WLF Night 1

[olivermoss]

I'll post my camera photos later, these are just the cell phone grabs. I didn't stay out as long as I wanted because I got rain on my lens. I do use a hood on my all my lenses, but my main lens I use for stuff like his has a very small hood, or else it'd get in the shot. For rain shooting I'd typically use a long prime, if a long prime is feasible.

I started at The Night Market because at least one of the exhibits was supposed to be there. Weirdly, I've never seen this before, but the market wasn't fully set up when I got there? Whole sections were still in progress. I was confused. Like, one of the bars was still being set up. I hung out for a bit and did a double circuit of the sellers. Nothing for me, but I do want to point out that they vary vendors a lot and it's not the same set of vendors I see at all the other markets. (People were shit talking the vendor selection on reddit, calling it stale and unchanging and that has never been true. The Eat-A-Dick cock shaped cookie seller was one of many vendors I've never seen before)



One of the 'tentacle portals' of WLF was there and:



Okay, kinda small.

They hand tons of backdrops for photoshoots. Someday I will go with someone and also get all these photo ops, but I've been telling myself that since... I think 2017?

So, then I walked around and wandered some of the exhibits. video of the dragon here. If none of my stills turn out, I will go back and reshoot.

Here is a random exhibit:


I love how the festival ranges from 'fire breathing dragon' to 'store that sells lamps being open late' to... uh...



This is 'Garden At The End Of The Anthropocene' and when I saw it I was dismissive of it, I took a picture to make fun of it, but I take it all back. It's trash, but in a way that kinda works? I'm warming to it because of it's abandoned lot surroundings. Considering the vibe suggested by the title? No notes.

I meant to clean my camera, eat, and head back out, but I didn't, something came up. Hopefully tomorrow I'll hit Electric Blocks and Glow Bar, maaaaybe Cartopia?

Comments

[mistressofmuses]

Weird about the market still doing setup. Wonder what happened to delay it?

I like the little tentacle, even if it's a... modest size.

But ooh, the bird creature is cool.

The abandoned lot I think really does help with that last one. The title as well.

[olivermoss]

Yeah, I feel bad about having made fun of it, it really does work. I have seen some rinky dink WLF projects before, though. Almost all the stuff around Mississippi last time was just dumb