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.
This is the Port Townsend waterfront at sunset in winter. The mountains in the distance are the northeast corner of the Olympics. This also shows one of the benefits of the area: the rain shadow effect you get from being downwind of the Olympics and the prevailing winds out of the southwest.
When I want to try out a ‘new’ film camera, the first thing I do is run a roll of film through it as fast as I can. Usually, I spend an hour or so down on the waterfront, shoot the roll and drop it in the mail on the way home. Lately, I tried out a Pentax 645N. This is a fairly large camera that shoots 120 film (this was Kodak Portra 400). I really enjoyed it, but found a streak on the negative (still trying to track down if it was a light leak, a scratch or an issue with the scanner at the lab). The nice thing about larger size film is you can crop a bunch off and still have decent quality… here, I cut off the left third of the image to eliminate the streak.
This gull was willing to stay still while I puttered with exposure settings. This is the Port Townsend waterfront looking south to the NE corner of the Olympic Mountains (well, with a bunch of clouds mixed in). For a wider angel view (without the gull), see below.
This is the waterfront at Port Townsend. The weather had been changing all day … one of those times when if you don’t like the weather, just wait a few minutes. I was walking around the waterfront and thought these clouds were interesting.