Perhaps a phoenix. Or maybe a roc. Possibly even Garuda for all I know, or Quetzalcoatl. Regardless, it was an interesting couple of minutes the two of us spent perched on this hill overlooking Seattle. I eventually ceded the territory, I was not really interested in any claims of ownership anyway, I just wanted to make an image or two.

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Not all excursions off the beaten path are pleasant... or safe. But then again, wrong turns from reality can be good for one's sense of being. That which doesn't kill you... right?

I found this monster lurking in Seattle.

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A foggy morning in Seattle, looking toward downtown from Gasworks Park. Something about the simultaneously beautiful and ugly nature of the blackberry bushes caused me to pause long enough to make this image.

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A pinhole image of Seattle at sunrise made last year during an Exposure Northwest workshop. The nice thing about the pinhole is that I can wedge it into the rocks at water's edge for 15 minutes while I teach and come back for it later. Of course then I come back to find that a particularly disagreeable wave came and knocked the camera over. But that is why I use a wooden pinhole camera for such adventures. Thankfully it seems to have occurred at the end of the exposure, not long before I came to reclaim my patiently waiting pinhole. Now if only the Sound would be more accommodating. Oh, what am I say, I like the Puget Sound particularly because it is so temperamental and honestly, I wouldn't have it any other way.

This was made along Alki Beach, which always strikes me because I have memories of this place from 30 years ago. My mom and dad's favorite fish & chips restaurant is just a short distance from here and it has been in the same place all this time. The biggest difference is that it used to be about the only thing out along this strip of beach, and now it is nestled in amongst quite a community.

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A pair of Holga images, made a few moments apart in Gasworks Park in Seattle one foggy morning not long ago. Interesting how as a photographer, I can be drawn to something by the barest pieces of it, not knowing entirely what it is that pulls me in. And even after the shutter is clicked and I am walking away, I still don't know always what is it that made me stop and linger. And then a couple weeks later I scan this page of negatives, see these two images together, and the pieces fit a bit better. I am sure this puzzle could be assembled in a number of other ways. But this was how I put it together.

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