waiting to cross

Not a Tourist

Pioneer square, saturday evening waiting for the bus. This guy was born to be photographed. I gave him a through working over shooting from both sides of the street. Will post more of him later.

Berth Number One

Went down to Pioneer Square to shoot tourists late this afternoon and after getting my fill of that I walked down to the ferry terminal and did some shooting from there. This was taken from the water end of the terminal looking south.

Man Walking at Low Tide

This was taken a yesterday during a sunbreak. Camera data: E-500 ISO 100, 14-54ZD at 14mm f7.1 1/320th. The raw image was developed in ACR4.4.

Crow's Nest

10th Avenue

Spring 2008

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot 1922

Harbor Island

Green Wall - White Center

This was taken in White Center same location and time as June's Market.

June's Market - White Center

Went down on the lower Duwamish River today to shoot birds. The tide was in and the birds were all out on the island several hundred yards away. They looked like dust spots in the the viewfinder at 300mm. So to keep from wasting my trip I went up the hill and came back through White Center. This was taken one street west of the main drag just south of Roxbury.

Reading

Another "life imitates art" shot. This time it is Thomas Eakins I have in mind but it could just as well have been Edward Hopper.

This is the plaza between Jackson and Yesler just east of 1st Av. The woman has just finished her lunch. The light falling on the paper bag is nice. I took perhaps 20 exposures of her over a period about about fifteen minutes.

I am speculating that this woman is Scandinavian but I can be fooled. She could also be Russian but I doubt it. Something about her hair and her clothing says Scandinavia. If she were a native of Seattle she would not be sitting alone in this plaza to eat her lunch. She would know better. Even with the police and neighborhood patrol crawling all over the place this is no place for a woman to be eating lunch alone.

The bicycle cops had just left when I started taking photos of her. I may post some shots of the cops and other people eating lunch later.

Like a Rolling Stone

Bluff - Fort Lawton Jan 27, 2008

802 - Fort Lawton Jan 27, 2008

This was taken three years after Mark Toby at the same location in the same season with the same sort of light but a different camera and lens. The camera an e510 with a 70-300mm ZD at 300mm. Mark Toby was taken with a Lumix FZ20. Mark Toby

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.