Sunday, August 09, 2009

loading zone




Same shooting session as sorry we're closed and no parking. Just one block south on a side street.

sorry we're closed



In fact this Enchilada and Taco Salad place is really closed. Closed forever. The windows revealed bare walls and empty floors. I spent the last hour of light shooting on one block of fourth ave and two side streets. Perhaps a mile north of the Duwamish bridge.

no parking



This was taken a little over an hour ago just as the sun was disappearing behind the hills. The location is South Seattle on fourth ave south, north of Michigan St. about half a mile.

Monday, August 03, 2009

the blues





Shot at the Burien thursday market under an overcast sky.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Thursday, July 23, 2009

shop window #1



Shot half an hour before sunset under the south ramp of the viaduct in South Downtown Seattle.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Lindmark Machine Works



This was taken this evening less than an hour before sunset in South Downtown Seattle, near the south end of the viaduct. I got permission to shoot at a steel works which was just south of the machine works. Spent a hour there dodging BNSF trains and fork lifts from the steel plant. They obviously have a late shift.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

the phone call



Another shot from Sunday evening.

Monday, July 20, 2009

Sunday, July 19, 2009

generations #2



I shot this just after 8pm this evening. 300mm, F8, 1/400th ISO400 and very nearly 100% crop so the effective focal length is something awesome, well over 1200mm anyway.

the channel












These were taken on Easter Sunday April 21, 2009 late in the day during a storm.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

yellow hotel






This is on East Marginal Way S in Seattle. Not far from the Duwamish river. The color in the late sunlight was very intense. I adjusted the gray scale curves but didn't do anything to enhance the color, just left it at default Lightroom settings (all my photos are developed from raw captures).

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

roof line



This was taken just after 8pm 7/6/09 on the north bank of the Duwamish up stream from the Duwamish Bridge about have way to the 16Th Ave Bridge. Some guy came out of this building and wanted to chat, that happened twice in half an hour during this shoot. People like to chat with photographers. I'm not unfriendly but the light was going away and I cannot chat and shoot at the same time.

Posted three different color treatments. What looks good in LightRoom 2.4 doesn't always look good after it gets exported to a small sRGB jpeg. [update, decided to choose one with a little less saturation in the sky.]

stern veiw (again)



a horizontal crop of the previous post.

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

stern view





Taken last night at sunset on Duwamish, north bank, about a mile upstream of the Duwamish Bridge

an open door



Shot last night, just before sunset, location the north side of the Duwamish bridge upstream a quarter mile.