The Monarch Hotel is in Port Townsend with its door facing the bay instead of the main street.
The Monarch Hotel
The Backside of Buildings
This is downtown Seattle near the ferry terminal. The buildings are all facing 1st Avenue … I liked the fire escapes. This was taken with a Holga (a cheap plastic film camera) and Portra 400. The single element plastic lens (like the old Kodak Brownies) does okay in the middle of the image, but gets a little blurry as you go to the edges.
Brick on Brick
There are a lot of brick buildings in Port Townsend … even though it was a center for exporting logs and lumber. The folks who could afford it built in brick … it helped to protect from fire.
The image below is of one of the doors to an old cannery that has been converted into office/living space.
Rusty Ruins
These two buildings are typical of those found at Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, WA. The small building above housed a powerful searchlight which could be rolled out to the edge of the bluff and used to spot enemy ships attempting to enter Puget Sound (never happened). I’m not sure what the building was shown below, but it’s being reclaimed by nature.
Artillery Anchor Rings
These are anchor rings for artillery pieces that were used pre-WWI … The artillery was never fired except in practice. These are at Fort Worden State Park … and there were two other forts (Casey and Flagler) that together guarded the entrance to Puget Sound and the naval stations and boatyards in Seattle, Bremerton and Everett.
All these were used in the emplacement shown at the bottom. I thought they made an interesting study.
