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.
Cheap Lens Vignetting
This is an example of the vignetting you get from a cheap lens. The same cheap 400mm reflex lens that I discussed on my last post (and from the same trip to Whidbey Island and Fort Casey). You tend to get some vignetting with any reflex lens due to design issues, but I was a little surprised at the amount I got in some of my images. I haven’t figured out why some images are more ‘severe’ than others, but there is some in most images. Vignetting can be intentionally added to some images to focus the viewers attention on the main subject. The image below shows how this might work … and is an example of cropping away a lot of the corner areas of the image to minimize the vignette.
Finally, another couple shots from that trip that were cropped to eliminate most of the vignetting.
