march.2

another shot from the loop around march point.

this was nearby.  just trying to bring out the colors in things people left behind.

street art

darryl is the man. he’s in and around downtown seattle and capitol hill.  he paints on what he can find with what is found or given to him. 

no lack of character here

beautiful early morning landing. the view of queens on the way to jfk.

other than the yankees, this is why i hate new york city.  there are no alleys.  this is a small trash pile.

no lack of activity.

i like peanut m&m’s too.

this guy will never know he’s in this blog.  it was about 75 degrees out that march day. 

meet lenny.  he’s a hula-hooper, drummer, and brass player.  very, very good.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.channel&vanity=lennyshoops

this guy was playing a very good rendition of the imperial march.

dull city

seattle has become a rather dull city for me to photograph.  my interests lie in areas that are hard to come by in seattle.  it’s a great place to live.  it’s not a great place to shoot when you’re used to places that have apparent visual interest and character like detroit. 

backwards politics.  people who think they’re entitled to everything.  generic architecture. it’s still a young city trying to establish an identity but the people that live here won’t let it create one.  all of the liberals are too liberal for their own good.

notice the graffiti that was painted over due to the fines that the city charges owners if they don’t.  white paint looks much better than artwork on glass…

that’s not saying that there isn’t anything interesting in seattle.  it just needs to be sought out.

AZ

80 degree thanksgiving in phoenix.  then 3+ inches of snow in flagstaff.  these shots were taken somewhere in between. 

we went ghost town hunting.

it was semi-successful.

many things seem to be left behind and forgotten in the desert.

the wine tasting at caduceus cellars was a highlight.

http://www.caduceus.org/

march point

this photo was shot on the same day in february when i was wandering back from the northern u.s. border.

oil. abandoned mass transit. modern agriculture. the decisive moment.

march point

this was the first time i ventured around march point.  there is a road that circles the oil refinery where a few people live.  i never really knew what was there and now the oil refinery has made headline news due to the deaths of a few of the workers. 

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011508577_refineryblast03m.html

whatcom by day

pattern. repetition. texture. the intrigue might have something to do with studying architecture.

i know an individual shooting a whole series of honey buckets.  my perspective of honey buckets is totally different from hers.  check out hers here: http://portapottyproject.wordpress.com/

whatcom co.

the goal was to drive north to whatcom county and document the state of the old dairy barns.  as it turns out, there’s a lot more to the area than milk.

whatcom co. one

there is something intriguing about manmade objects that are abandoned at some point during their lifecycle.  if they are left standing, what happens to them over time?  how are they used in the afterlife?  sometimes nature takes over and other times humans may reclaim the space.  many of the forgotten structures in whatcom co. seem to be in limbo. 

whatcom co. two

 

 

 

 

 

 

sunrise

ask anyone i know, it’s a rare occurence for me to be awake for sunrise.  ask anyone i know.  this one was in february of this year and it was cold.  this was the beginning of a full day of shooting that didn’t yield much but did manifest a couple very nice images.

no. 1

this is the first attempt at a photoblog.  it will be an attempt to cover all topics and subjects that i have shot.  it’s probably going to be jumbled and all over the place at the beginning.  most of the work that i am posting initially has been shot throughout the past two years.  over time it may evolve into multiple blogs or websites.

the main focus will be and always has been the built environment and more specifically the urban world.

mission: create 

sacrificed for the light rail

someone needs to put up beer billboards.