Tag: Urban

The Hastings Building

The Hastings Building – 1

The Hastings Building is sited at the main intersection of Port Townsend, WA. Constructed in 1889 and a Washington State Registered Historic Place, the Hastings Building has retail space in some of the ground floor, but the upper floors are vacant and in need of renovation. It is hoped that the renovation will happen in the near future and will include adding additional 4-star hotel space on the water side (to the right of the image above). If you look at image number 3, the photo #1 was taken on the corner that is in the middle of the photo (on different days). I recently had an opportunity to go upstairs and photograph. Some of those photos will be the next few posts.

The Hastings Building – 2
The Hastings Building – 3
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Lucky Traffic

Mt Rainier and the Duwamish

Several years ago I was living in Olympia and got up early and drove to Seattle in time for the sunrise. I went to Alki Beach and took a series of photos of the Olympic Mountains intending to create a panorama of the range. Early morning was ideal, since with the sun would be behind my back and the haze would be at a minimum. There was an unexpected problem, however. When I created the panorama, in order for it to be a reasonable height for viewing, the length would be over 10 feet.

But on the way out of West Seattle, I was caught in rush hour traffic. I was in the outside lane on the bridge and traffic was stopped. I have left my camera sitting on the passenger seat with the telephoto lens still mounted. I rolled down the passenger window and took this shot looking over the industrial area. I never processed this image, because I was distracted by the image that was zoomed in on Rainier. Just a reminder to review your past images for overlooked gems.

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Studies in Shapes and Textures

Studies in Shapes and Textures 1

I give myself shooting assignments sometimes to keep practicing different photographic vision or skills. This day I was looking for shapes and textures … since I was shooting black and white film (with a Nikon F100), shapes and textures increase the likelihood that there will be some interesting part to the image.

I was happy with both of these.

Studies in Shapes and Textures 2
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Reflections

Reflection 1

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.)

Reflection 2
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