Thomas Street @ 9th Avenue N. 2016
Re-Stack, Lead Pencil Studio 2015
I’ve been in this Seattle neighborhood many times over the years, sometimes just passing through on my way to other places in the city, sometimes exploring, by car and on foot, walking, with camera. For many years it was a quiet out-of-the-way neighborhood Continue reading →
Walking around, looking around (and up), finding shape and color in the urban environment. I like the way things fit in my compositions, all the little triangles around the larger one in the Seattle Skyline, and at the Seattle construction site, the primary colors, plus black, white, and gray. Somedays, things just fit in the frame perfectly, taking advantage of the confines of the frame, all the space on the film, or in this case, sensor.
This third image, added to this post later, and now included here: I just couldn’t walk past it, or ignore it, for several reasons. It just grabbed me; a hole in the wall, a broken surface, a simple, beautiful shape, on a gray textured field. As a source, it was located directly behind me as I arranged the elements of the picture included above in this post.
This “quick grab” of a picture happened the other day, when walking around one of Seattle’s neighborhoods, Georgetown. I was with my friend DavidF, who, many times over the past 15 years or so, we’ve wandered the streets at all hours, in search of image making opportunities. We turned down a narrow street with industrial buildings on one side, and a freeway ramp on the other, when kapow!, the rumble and vibration Continue reading →
