I struggled for a while with the cropping on this image. The big question was whether to leave in the red trim on top. In the end, I decided it made a nice contrast to the greens. But I’m still not sure. Here’s the version without.
and then in Black and White
These wonderful old doors are on the old cannery building in downtown Port Townsend. The building is now used as a private residence or office. The folks that live or work there are not very friendly … I assume that they get tired of folks knocking on the doors wanting to see inside.
I worked some to get these photos of the reflections without having them show my reflection. They were both taken in downtown Port Townsend, WA.
I stood off to the side (just barely) and then did some correction to the perspective in LIghtroom. These were taken with my Nikon F100 on Kodak Tri-X. I have them developed and the lab does high resolution scans, which I then import to Lightroom (after amending the EXIF data to reflect the camera make, etc.).
(EXIF data is included in all digital images … and includes such things as the capture time and the camera settings … and can include all sorts of other stuff such as copyright info and contact information.)
The Monarch Hotel is in Port Townsend with its door facing the bay instead of the main street.
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.
