Contrasts and Variety

We did this photo shoot last weekend at the University of Washington in Tacoma. It's a beautiful campus nestled in the hills of Tacoma right in the heart of the city, from where you can see Commencement Bay and the Port of Tacoma, and take a short walk to the three museums across the street - Washington State History Museum, Museum of Glass and Tacoma Art Museum.

Tacoma Art Museum (note the view of the port seen through the architectural arch)

The UW Tacoma was opened in 1990 as one of three campuses of the University of Washington, the biggest and oldest one being in Seattle (founded in 1861, it's one of the oldest universities on the West Coast), and the third campus located in Bothell, WA. The UW Tacoma moved to its permanent campus in 1997. As you can see, it's a combination of historic and modern buildings, and I really think that the urban planners and architects did an amazing job. The campus works as its own complex, while also being an integral part of the city as a whole, which is most probably not an easy task to accomplish in such an old, established city as Tacoma.

My outfit that day contained of all familiar things, the one exception being this beautiful pair of vintage earrings which I found at Goodwill for $2.99. The scarf in aboriginal print is also genuine vintage, you can see all the details of its fun pattern and colors in my old MARCH 2015 post. I was pleasantly surprised to be complimented on this outfit a couple of times while we had lunch in a cafe, before we headed to the campus.

The rest of the outfit should be familiar to my long time readers and friends. The blouse is thrifted, by Urban Outfitters, made from the dead stock vintage fabric, and I adore it (also shown in APRIL 2014, MAY 2014, SEPTEMBER 2014, MARCH 2015). The orange fake leather moto jacket was seen in APRIL 2017, and the yellow skirt was worn too many times to mention, most recently in  the popular post COOL AS A CUKE, JANUARY 2018.

I just love that from the top of the stairs (not the highest top of the hill, but the highest point of the campus), you can see layers and layers of what makes Tacoma the beautiful port city that it is. From here, you can see the main street, Pacific Avenue, with the arch of the Washington History Museum which echoes the shape of the grand historic Union Station opened in 1911 (Wiki article), Museum of Glass, Port of Tacoma, waters of Commencement Bay, green tops of Indian Hill (which is the highest hill in Tacoma and also our home) and the Cascade Mountains with their snowy peaks. I think that geography has the ability to influence our way of thinking - how can such a stunning and complicated perspective not impact the way we view the world, with all its wide variety and at times mind-blowing contrasts? Which makes it a pretty perfect location for a school, the purpose of which is broadening students' perspective, doesn't it?

The view of Washington History Museum and Museum of Glass

All items remixed from my closet.

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Another photo shoot at the UW Tacoma HERE (December 2014).

Another beautiful campus in Tacoma, University of Puget Sound, HERE (February 2017).

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