Saint with Roses

This is the second time I have shot this wall. Decided to give it another try. Need to have someone tell me what saint this is, a saint who guards the door to your business. This was taken Thursday August 31st in Old Burien, one of the side streets just off the main drag. I stopped in at several of the shops and chatted with the proprietors. Don't often drive down this street since it is a bottle neck created intentionally by the city 'planners' and the traffic backs up several blocks from the light.

Abstract

I have been running dry on subject matter so I end up shooting stuff like this.

Photo on Demand

This man walked up while I was busy taking photos on 136th and Ambaum, trying to ignore a noisy altercation that was developing between a woman and some of her associates, involving her screaming and yelling and walking out into heavy traffic and truck tires screeching and blue smoke, and then the whole business moved across the street to the 24 hour store and then this man walks up and wants me to take his photo so I said, "stand over there" and took one shot and let him look at it and he was pleased and walked away.

After I got home and looked at the photo it seemed to have some merit, so I am posting it.

Bean Counter - Pike Place

This is a traditional produce stand at the Pike Place market. The vendor was placeing the green beans one at a time which struck me as a rather labor intensive approach.

Off Kingstreet

Winter morning light on third avenue just north of the Kingstreet Station in Seattle.

Six Plates

This was taken from a stairway that leads from Elliot Ave down to Alaskan Way. There is a seafood restaurant at the foot of the stairs.

Blue and Pink - Fourth of July Parade

When I go to a parade (once every decade or two) the people watching are the focus of my attention not the stuff going past on the street. This was taken yesterday in Burien Washington at the Fourth of July parade.

Two Bicycles

The same hot evening up on First Ave near the Market. Lots of people on the street.

Red and Green

More photos from a hot night downtown about sundown near the Market. This one was taken up on First Ave.

Sunday Evening at the Market

It had dropped below 90f when I took this photo about half an hour before sunset. It was still very warm and there wasn't much wind. I could have color corrected this to remove the yellow red cast but I wanted it to look like I saw it.

Pulling the Grade

This was taken late in the afternoon, just up the hill half a block from the Pike Place Market. This street is original equipment. Still paved with cobble stones (not in photo) and it is steep. When I was a teenager our family brought my fathers brother and his family to see the market in his chevy station wagon. We were going down one of these steep streets to the market when brakes failed and the emgergency brake was worthless. My uncle yelled no brakes to clear the sidewalk as we carened into an allyway. Close shave. Otherwise we would have gathered some speed before crashing into the market and killing who knows how many people.

Facing the Wall

Just around the corner from Box Office after the Matinee crowd had dispersed. The hero of Box Office experiences a quiet moment alone.

Work Boats

This was taken at Bell Harbor from the observation deck, a view point which is a favorite with local photographers and tourists alike. These boats look to me like they are together. The fishing boat with several net boats.

This was developed in Lightroom 2.0 beta using the target adjustment tool to balance the values and curves to adjust the contrast. It was resized and sharpened in PSE6.

Parka

Another image from my last Belltown shoot.

Two Stadiums

This was developed twice in ACR4.3.1. Once for the clouds and once for the stadiums and ferry. The cloud layer was masked using a gradient layer. Then each layer was converted using two Hue&Sat layers (four total) with the top layer desaturated and the bottom Hue&Sat layer in color mode using the hue slider to adjust how the grays were rendered. Then a levels layer was added to both cloud layer and the other layer to adjust contrast and white and black end points. All told there were nine layers before the image was merged, straitened, resized, sharpened and framed. The basic technique is describe in Mark Galer's Adobe PSE Maximum Performance pages 116-119.

Cloud Over Fort Lawton

Old photo new treatment using PSE6 Mac b&w conversion to simulate a red filter. This image is a little over cooked. The wall on the building is blown, the shadows in the tress too dark. The jpeg for the web didn't look as good as the tiff in PSE6. May work this up again later when I have time.

View from Pike Place

Box Office

The box office at the Moore Theater in Seattle.

After the Matinee

This was taken in just around the corner from the Moore Theater on 2nd & Pine in Seattle.

Against the Crowd

I could tell you what is going on here but I would rather let the viewer supply their own story for this photograph. It was taken in Pioneer Square on Sunday evening about between six and seven pm.