Winter Reds

Walk Down

Work Boat

See also Duwamish-marina

Elliot Bay

Blue School

Sawdust

Thicket

Winter Light - Fort Lawton Jan 20, 2007

Golden Alaska

Rust

Elliot Bay - Dec 25, 2006

Smith Tower

1727 1st Ave

Springboard

Feeding the Gulls

December Afternoon

These photos were taken at the north end of SeaTac airport in a wasteland under the flight path. The sun was coming in and out and there was a general diffusion caused by wood smoke in the air. I like this kind of light. It softens the shadows and in December the mid afternoon sun is close to the horizon creating ideal light for landscapes and portraits.

Hoop

Fire Escape

This is actually the back side of a church located on 1st Ave and about 149th in down town Burien WA. I didn't bother to remember the name which didn't mean anything to me since I was only after a few shots of this wall with the windows and the white drain pipes and the wooden stairs.

I was moving around in the parking lot and after two dozen exposures some fellow wandered over all decked out in a faded flannel shirt and work pants with a cell phone attached to his ear and a boy kind of hanging in the wings (it was saturday) and after terminating his phone call he opened with the classic line: "Can I help you?" and I answered "Yeah" giving it exactly the intonation used by black soldier with the tiger tooth necklace at the Do Long Bridge when Capt. Willard asked him "do you know who’s in command here?".

I'm getting a little tired of being asked why I am taking photographs. Seems like a really dumb question. The security guards at the coast guard station were a lot nicer about it than this fellow at the church. Figures that someone you meet in a church parking lot on a saturday afternoon will be nasty.

Window

Wall

When I was two years out of college I took a job as an apprentice to an award winning photographer who was the manager of a studio headed for insolvency. One of my jobs was to read 6X7cm negatives on a light table, mark them for cropping and ship out to the color lab. Professional color negatives (Kodak CPS) looked something like this on the light table.

True Color

If you want to see this in True Color take a look at Burlington Northern and Caboose. I figured someone would probably want to see the whole caboose so here it is.

January 2, 2005 - Winter Light at Fort Lawton

These were all taken at the same time from the same location west of the parade ground at Fort Lawton with my Lumix FZ20 about a week or two after it was purchased. Includes Mark Toby and other images from the same shoot.

Gas & Electric (winter)

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