Rainier Beer

Taken sunday morning in the plaza a few blocks south of First and Yesler. The man who managed to stay out of the photograph was "breaking camp" a little after 9am and he had a lot of gear not all of it shown here. As I worked on this shot he kept removing his gear one piece at a time but the bicycle and the black bag and the empty bag hanging on the iron fence he didn't move. I wish he had. Anyway I decided to post the shot with the most gear in it and I intend to go back and shoot it again without any gear. Notice the photos in the plastic sleeve leaning against the bike wheel, probably his family.

Two Owls

This shot was taken from an elevated parking lot on the corner of Yesler and First Ave aka Pioneer Square. I was shooting against a strong morning sun with the subject in the shade. For that reason the subject was very flat (low contrast) and required a lot of help from Photoshop Elements and Adobe Camera Raw. The color as shot was a sickly faded pale pink and red. I didn't like it so I made it another of my blue series.

vertigo

where no road goes

Seahurst Wood

King Street Station

Muddy Waters

The Green River made famous by Gary Ridgeway (a.k.a. The Green River Killer) becomes the Duwamish somewhere around here. The river is normally green but when there is high water caused by rain and melting snow the river looks more like the Nile. Selecting the water in Photoshop Elements 4 and making it a separate layer and then adding a hue and saturation layer attached to the water layer I adjusted the color to look more like the normal conditions.

Vents

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.