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Power Heads

Late Afternoon

cruks

other side of the river

Both the other side of the Duwamish river and down stream on the other side of the bridge from the marina in the previous post. Obviously the two photos where taken on different days in different weather.

Duwamish Marina

This marina is very small and in an obscure location. It is on the south side of the river just upstream of the Duwamish Bridge. It is located on a marginally paved dead end road deep within an industrial wasteland of ironworks and marine construction. The marina itself is closed to the public. I was photographing from a bulkhead just west of the marina which is the only place where the road gives you a view of the river. This is not a destination spot for international tourism.

Doors

The light was wonderful in Lake Burien School park as I drove by so I stopped to take a few exposures. This sun was coming in and out of the clouds so the contrast was changing all the time. I saw this garage and the light on the doors and walked over to take a look at it. After about a dozen exposures the home owner came out to get his mail and to look me over. I greeted him but he didn't say anything. I was shooting from the park so there wasn't much for him to complain about.

This was taken with my Lumix FZ20. My Olympus E-500 is in need of a new sensor due to color rendering problems . See Color Shift. After half a year of shooting with the E-500 it is a bit of a transition to go back to my FZ20 but the camera takes very good photos and renders color better than the E-500. I assume this will be rectified with the replacement of the sensor.

Cast

Mr. True's Farm

This is the place where we boarded our horse called Oats in 1960. We lived just a few blocks up the street for a short time while our house was being completed. I was the only one in the family who rode Oats.

Update 11/11/07 The farm is no longer there, it was sold to a developer. This has happened to me about five times in the last two years. The subjects of my photos go out of existence forever.

Fort Dent

The Blues Again

Officers Quarters

Man Reclining

Another Path

Emergent

Venetian Blinds

Two Chimneys

Pier 57

Not sure this is Pier 57, just guessing based on where I think I was shooting from.

Home Sweet Home

Not my house, just a house which caught my eye. If it had a porch I would expect to see someone with a shotgun sitting in a rocking chair on the porch. It was that sort of place.

Color Shift

Notice the blue center with the green edges. A lens fault which only appears when you over saturate the image using Photoshop or something similar.

This is an update on the color shif problem. I have been talking to Olympus tech support about this and they tell me it is caused by light falloff in their kit lenses not a problem with the sensor in the E-500. The told me to try a high quality lens and see if the problem disappeared. So I went to the camera store today and had them mount an Olympus 50-200mm f/2.8-3.5 ED Zuiko Digital lens. I stepped outside took the following shots at f5.6 zoomed out to 182mm of some walls with sunlight on them. This lens appears to produce EXACTLY the same effect as the 40-150 3.5-4.5 kit lens. So using a high quality lens doesn't eliminate the problem. Looks like the hot spot is off center on the toward the left hand side of the image no matter what lens is mounted on the camera.
UPDATE 11/24/06 After sending Olympus several more images they agreed with me that this is a defect in the sensor and they authorized Rainier Photographic Supply (Burien WA) to give me a new E-500 body. My tests with the the new E-500 body verify that the color problem was independent of vignetting a.k.a. light fall off. I should mention that during this process I received excellent support both from Olympus and Rainier Photographic Supply .









Same lens but a differnet E-500 BODY same focal length 182mm and f-stop f5.6. The hot spot disappears. Guess what? Bad sensor?
Seen below are two shots, the raw files with no post-processing, of the same scene taken on different days but in similar lighting. The top photo was taken with a Lumix FZ20. Click on it to enlarge it an take a close look at the gray fence. Notice how even the grey is from left to right on the fence.

Now click on the second shot and take a hard look at the fence. Notice how the undertone of the grey is warm (pinkish) in the middle and green on the right side. It is nearly impossible to color correct such a photo. If you make the grey neutral in the middle the right side will become even more green. If you make the right side neutral then the center will become even more warm. You cannot win with shots like this one.

Path

This was taken at Fort Lawton sunday morning 9/24/06. See also Light In August

Peruvian Pan Pipe

A well dressed street musician in the market alley just up the hill from Pike Place same location as Moto Guzzi. This fellow brought everything except a PA system which he needed since you could not hear him above the general noise of the people in the open air shops and sidewalk cafes. He was selling CD's and taking donations but he didn't project an image of dire straits.

To get a set up for a shot I backed up against the brick wall pulled out my Gossen Multibeam and took an incident reading which at ISO200 was 125th at f5.6. I tried shooting from the cafe across the alley but there was too much foot traffic so after a few test shots I went back to the wall and shot from there. Hand holding at 125th about 150mm is somewhat like shooting bulls eye at 25 yards with a Glock 9mm.

Bud's Jazz Records

Another shot from "south of the line" which means south of Yesler street aka Skid Road. This is just a block or two from Pioneer Square.

Woman in Hat

Just a few blocks north of the King Street Station (railroad depot) and one block east of the plaza where where I shot Cane and Chairs.

Pioneer Square

See also The Wall

Pier 48

Chairs

Chairs and Cane were both taken on Aug 27 see also Sunday Morning. The location was the plaza several blocks south of Yesler and just north of the Fire Station. I'm sure the place has a name but I don't know it. It is south of Pioneer Square but still a part of the same neighborhood. These fellows were not really sleeping, just taking a little rest in the warm morning sun.

Cane

Carriage House

See also Light In August

Saxophone Solo - Carnegie Hall Feb 21, 1963

Not my photos. A week ago some guy was going on an on about John Coltrane, so I went to the library and got John Coltrane & Thelonious Monk at Carnegie Hall and Dave Brubeck Quartet at Carnegie Hall. I listened to John Coltrane & Thelonious Monk and of course Monk was very good and Coltrane did a respectable job but it seemed like Coltrane was just filling the slot, the saxophone man, it was Monk's show.

Then I listened to a recording which I have heard probably a thousand times "Blue Rondo a la Turk" Paul Desmond at Carnegie Hall February 21, 1963. I wore out two copies of this album in the early 60s before I got a tape deck. I am not a Paul Desmond fan really, but this solo is perfect, brilliant, flawless virtuosity ...

OK, it is absurd to compare Coltrane with Desmond. They didn't even play the same instrument. Desmond was a clarinet player who converted to alto sax and hated playing a tenor but did it early on to make money. Desmond played the alto as if it were a clarinet, spending most of his time very high up. He played a full octave above the altos designed range. Although he quoted frequently from Bird, Stan Getz ... his style was so distinctive that it didn't fit into any identifiable contemporary school.

I was a Brubeck fan and when Desmond was playing with Brubeck I liked what he did most of the time. His other work with Jim Hall and numerous others was good but not the same as his work with Brubeck. I had two of his Jim Hall collaborations Take Ten and Bosa Antigua. They were OK, but didn't listen to them much.

Late Summer

See also Two Windows and Box Fan and Two Windows with Flags

Pipeline

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