Awning

This was shot in Seattle standing on the waterfront and looking back toward town under the Alaskan Way Viaduct. What caught my eye was the light playing over the wall. It was a long shot, 300mm which I have long considered the ideal focal length for 35mm photography.

The Wall

This wall is in a small parking lot just across First Avenue from Pioneer Square in Seattle. Forty years ago this was the location of Ellroy's Ice Cream Parlor which offered a monstrous dish called the Pioneer Square Sunday. If anyone was willing and able to single handedly consume one these the event was recorded with a photograph permanently displayed on the wall. The elapsed time for consumption was also recorded, typically several hours.

Across the Parking lot from Ellroy's was The Penthouse, a jazz club that featured big name artists. My favorite groups didn't play there. Brubeck and MJQ who preferred concert halls to clubs. Thelonious Monk, Herbie Man, Paul Horn, Stan Getz, Jerry Mulligan and a host of others did gigs at The Penthouse. You had to be 21 years old to get in and by the time I was legal age The Penthouse was no more.

Dead White European Feminists

OK, not all really European, one is English, two Americans and a German. Why is Virginia Woolf on top? Because she wrote To The Lighthouse, which is arguably the greatest work of art in the English language of the 20th century. The photo of Gertrude Stein in front of her portrait painted by Picasso is the kindest photo of her I could find. Leni Riefenstahl and Ann Morrow Lindbergh probably don't make it into most textbooks on Feminism because they were not from the left bank.

Cross Wires

Black Light

Pigeons

Dark Door

White Door - Red Brick

Sunday Morning

The faded blue denim looks good against all the old brick. I figured this guy was probably a Mariners fan who arrived early for the game and decided to catch a few rays in a quite spot near the stadium. This shot was taken one block south of SkidRoad (Yesler) just west of Post Alley. The street wasn't busy, I was shooting standing in the middle of the street and from the alley. I stood off zoomed out to 300mm to keep from being intrusive. He knew I was shooting but didn't seem to give a damn.

Loading Dock

Ductwork

Light In August

I spent about half an hour and fifty exposures on this. The sun was coming in and out of the clouds with the light changing dramatically all the time so I moved around and kept changing the exposure and bracketing over and under.

Moto Guzzi

For some reason this shot reminds me of the opening scene from the classic film Lawrence of Arabia. This shot was taken from above looking down on an ally north of Pike Place just below First Ave in Seattle. The opening frames of Lawrence of Arabia show a motorcycle shot from above, a somewhat steeper angle but the effect is similar.

T.E. Lawrence didn't ride a Moto Guzzi on the day of his accident he was riding a Brough Superior.

Two Seats

Two Walls

Handtruck

Blue Frames

See also Two Windows and Box Fan

Desert Rocks - Columbia River 1972

Taken on old highway 10 somewhere west of Ginkgo State Park.

Burlington Northern

See more of Burlington Northern.

Who is afraid of Minor White - B&W 1972

The location is a Pacific Ocean beach near Destruction Island in the Olympic National Park. I don't recall just which beach it was, one of the first few beaches as you drive south, somewhere from Ruby Beach south but before you get to Kalaloch Lodge. If you want to find this site you will need to stop each beach at low tide and walk around a bit. The rocks don't just jump out and grab you.