Well its now the end of 2009, and it’s time again for the ten favorite images routine. This year I noticed that although many photos were made near the rail environment, none of them fit a conventional train theme. Instead, urban and built environment subjects are becoming more predominate in my work.
As with the previous two years, the order is chronological, and clicking on the image will yield the image’s Flickr page.
* * * 1.
February in Portland, and a real urban survivor shows up on the streets in the form of an International Harvester Metro van. (It was in use by a window washer service.) This was part of a test roll for a friend’s Nikon FG, picked up at a garage sale for under $10. The film, of course, is T-Max.
2.
King Street Station, Seattle, in March, looking down the stairs at the platforms for the commuter trains to Tacoma and Everett. A single figure in red makes her way to a train home.
3.
Another image from March in Seattle, this one from one of the less restored sections of King Street Station.
4.
Yet another King Street shot from Seattle in March, this one of some rather interesting automotive subjects. Can’t get too much more contrasty than this.
5.
Breakfast Every Day! The only way service at the Dockside could get better is if they served breakfast all day, too. July.
6.
In July, I got reacquainted with an old friend: my first SLR, a Pentax K-1000. One of the first rolls through it was a heavily transit filled one, and included this shot, taken on the TriMet Bus 15 to Montgomery Park. Kodak TMY.
7.
Another Pentax shot, again on Kodak TMY, this time of a gellateria in Northwest Portland, not far from Powell’s Books. A very hot day in August.
8.
In December, looking west towards the Steel Bridge on a cold evening. The structure is seen through the foil of a pedestrian and bike overpass over the Union Pacific tracks on the east bank of the Willamette.
9.
Still later in December, I visited Vancouver, B.C., where I caught this image on the G9. Something about the way the building towered up over Gastown made me think of the original (1995) Ghost in the Shell movie, with it’s Hong Kong inspired towers.
10.
My last shot is also from Vancouver in December, in this case from a ramen shop called Kintaro, in the city’s West End neighborhood.
* * *
And that wraps up 2009. To be frank, most of these are snapshots from the G9, usually shot to accompany posts on civics21, a blog about public policy and politics. As a result, few of these are images I’d consider as intended to be art. That said, the amount of film I shot during the year was possibly among the highest I have ever shot, and I am adding to my negative files rather rapidly. In addition, I have a number of photography projects I am working on but that are not yet ready for airing. I may get to finishing at least one or two of them in 2010. Stay tuned.
2009: Ten Favorite Images
Well its now the end of 2009, and it’s time again for the ten favorite images routine. This year I noticed that although many photos were made near the rail environment, none of them fit a conventional train theme. Instead, urban and built environment subjects are becoming more predominate in my work.
As with the previous two years, the order is chronological, and clicking on the image will yield the image’s Flickr page.
* * *
1.
February in Portland, and a real urban survivor shows up on the streets in the form of an International Harvester Metro van. (It was in use by a window washer service.) This was part of a test roll for a friend’s Nikon FG, picked up at a garage sale for under $10. The film, of course, is T-Max.
2.
King Street Station, Seattle, in March, looking down the stairs at the platforms for the commuter trains to Tacoma and Everett. A single figure in red makes her way to a train home.
3.
Another image from March in Seattle, this one from one of the less restored sections of King Street Station.
4.
Yet another King Street shot from Seattle in March, this one of some rather interesting automotive subjects. Can’t get too much more contrasty than this.
5.
Breakfast Every Day! The only way service at the Dockside could get better is if they served breakfast all day, too. July.
6.
In July, I got reacquainted with an old friend: my first SLR, a Pentax K-1000. One of the first rolls through it was a heavily transit filled one, and included this shot, taken on the TriMet Bus 15 to Montgomery Park. Kodak TMY.
7.
Another Pentax shot, again on Kodak TMY, this time of a gellateria in Northwest Portland, not far from Powell’s Books. A very hot day in August.
8.
In December, looking west towards the Steel Bridge on a cold evening. The structure is seen through the foil of a pedestrian and bike overpass over the Union Pacific tracks on the east bank of the Willamette.
9.
Still later in December, I visited Vancouver, B.C., where I caught this image on the G9. Something about the way the building towered up over Gastown made me think of the original (1995) Ghost in the Shell movie, with it’s Hong Kong inspired towers.
10.
My last shot is also from Vancouver in December, in this case from a ramen shop called Kintaro, in the city’s West End neighborhood.
* * *
And that wraps up 2009. To be frank, most of these are snapshots from the G9, usually shot to accompany posts on civics21, a blog about public policy and politics. As a result, few of these are images I’d consider as intended to be art. That said, the amount of film I shot during the year was possibly among the highest I have ever shot, and I am adding to my negative files rather rapidly. In addition, I have a number of photography projects I am working on but that are not yet ready for airing. I may get to finishing at least one or two of them in 2010. Stay tuned.