Blue Ferry

NoSmoking #2

Here is a shot taken just off the railroad tracks in the south end, this tank is used to store oxygen which I suspect it is used to cut steel with. Took this with the vintage e500 and the 14-54mm ZD. For some reason I decided to go with B&W on this one. The pattern of the fence and barbwire against the tank and pipes appealed to me, something from Marshall McLuhan "information brushed against information" I read forty years ago in the summer of 1968.

The Shoot - Fort Lawton Jan 27, 2008

Wolf at the Door - South of Yesler

I have been sitting on this one for a while because I wasn't sure how to handle the shadows. Consider this a first draft. This was taken late in the day on Sunday Jan 13th. The scene is on the west side of First Ave near Jackson street. I was shooting against the light with the 70-300ZD at 98mm f8 1/30th ISO 400 leaning against a wall for support and shooting across first ave against the light from the setting sun which was actually down behind the buildings by this time but the sky was still very bright. It was really a sort of desperate attempt to pull something out of a more or less hopeless situation.

The building is in an advanced state of deterioration and I suspect that it will be the subject of a wrecking operation sometime in the not distance future so I figured it was time to get a capture while it was still there. I have learned over and over again that buildings like this tend to disappear between the time I shoot them and the next time I go looking for them.

Robin Feeding

Sunday afternoon with eagles flying over my head I stopped and took a few shots of a robin feeding on red berries.

Harbor at Dusk - Jan 27, 2008

Sun came out on Sunday Jan 27, 2008 against the weather report which was grim. Spent five hours shooting at Fort Lawton and the bluffs along the south end of Magnolia. This was the last light of the day just moments before sunset. It was taken just up the hill a little from the high end of the Magnolia Bridge. E510, iso 400 70-300ZD at 148mm f8 1/125th braced against a fence post.The closeup of the ship is 300mm f8 at 1/125th and isn't very sharp due to camera movement.

Regatta - Jan 5, 2008

On Jan 5th I went to the beach to shoot birds but the birds had checked out and left no forwarding address. There was a regatta or a race or something going on so just for laughs I took some shots of the boats. There was a lot of white water between me and Vashon Island, the boats were somewhere in between.

Pacini Lubel Gallery - South of Yesler

This was taken at 3:23pm on Jan 13th just before the sun vanished behind the buildings on first avenue. I took several exposures one right after the other of this sign and the light was dwindling between them. This was the first of the sequence where the shadows are still strong.

e510 ISO 400 70-300ZD @252mm f8 1/400 developed in ACR4.3 PSE4-mac

300mm Seagulls

Dead Rat and Crows

Winter 2008

Christmas Eve - Belltown

Sunday Morning 10:30am - South of Yesler

This is the alley right next to the tobacco shop. You can see the power box and one of the pigeons in the tobacco shop photo.

Tobbaco Shop - South of Yesler

Belltown

Market is Closed - Thanksgiving 2007

Bricked in Window - Georgetown

Bricked in Window - Georgetown

These were taken on 11/22/07 in Georgetown an old neighborhood in south Seattle. The structure is part of the old Rainier Brewery which is slated for demolition according to a sign posted at the south end of the complex.

Bricked in windows are a marked feature of old structures in south Seattle where I do a lot of shooting. You find the tops of them peaking up from the substrata of underground Seattle just "South of Yesler" see my post by that name.South of Yesler

Thanksgiving 2007 - Post Alley

Coffee Cops - Belltown Dec 1 2007

Police Action - Belltown Dec 1st 2007

Vents B&W

This is a re-shoot of a roof at Highline High School. I was using a long focal length and could not get both the big white vent and the steaming vent in focus at the same time so I took about twenty exposures focusing at different points and then combined two images to get both of the important vents in focus.

GeorgeTown - Thanksgiving 2007

Mark Toby - Fort Lawton Jan 2, 2005

I am reposting this shot because it was buried so deep in my blog that I couldn't find it and it is a favorite of mine taken during my first serious shoot with my first digital camera about a week after I took up photography again after a lapse of 25 years without a camera.

Armistice Day

Photos taken while trespassing on some land which has been confiscated by the Port of Seattle for the third runway at SeaTac. There was no fence and the land was west of the DesMoines way so I wasn't in the secure area, it was adjacent to a construction site which looks like it will be used for a new access road. I have an attachment to the site. I used to ride my horse there in the summer of 1960. The farm where we kept the horse can be seen here: True's Farm

South of Yesler

This was taken today at 11:17AM south of Yesler near the waterfront in Seattle. It was a sun filtered through fog day. Never really cleared up. The fog was down between the buildings.

Take a close look at the bottom of that wall and note the window arches just above street level. Strange place for windows isn't it. I suspect this is a building that was constructed before the street level was raised one floor and what we see here is the tops of windows in "underground Seattle".

Indian Summer

This was taken in SW Seattle on Oct 23, 2007 at 3:18 PM in a little park at S 160th and 9th SW. The ambiant temperature was 71F. The second day of warm weather. The image was developed from a raw file in ACR4.2 and PSE4 Mac.

Yellow Hydrant - Georgetown

Autumn in the Park

Deep in the woods a tree I walk past several times a week. Top photo taken with e510 iso 40014-54-mm f4 1/20th second photo taken with e500 iso 400 14-54-mm f4 1/20th .Third photo taken with e510 iso 400 40-150mm at 40mm 1/5th f8 hand held.

Another Storm over Blake Island

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