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Seattle Gas Works Park and Fremont, May 2021

Seattle Gas Works Park and Fremont, May 2021

Paul Losordo

A trip to the pacific northwest to visit friends and family. Now that we are vaccinated, and moreover, our friends and family in Seattle and Portland are also vaccinated, it was time for a trip to the PNW. While we had been in Portland a couple times for weddings in 2015 and 2017, we really hadn’t visited Seattle in a long time, 2013! This is the first of a few posts as I edit photos from the trip. Today photos from our first trip to Gas Works Park in Seattle and the Fremont area. Snagged a nice double album “Quartet” from Herbie Hancock (1983, ) yes in vinyl, along with Al Di Meola’s “Elegant Gypsy”.

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Anchors in B&W
Anchors in B&W

A trip to Gas Light Park, COVID, Saturday, what could be the problem? MOBBED! Parking a short walk away, we got to walk the waterfront and see cool stuff like piles of anchors.

Flowers & Submersible #1
Flowers & Submersible #1

#1 or #1. Some people like #1 and some like #2. I know they look similar but the light and color is different on the flowers and the sub and the angle as well……details.

Flowers and Submersible #2
Flowers and Submersible #2

#2 I like the color and angle and crop better but maybe the submersible is not so great???

Floating dry dock
Floating dry dock

I think this is lake union, and I have never seen a floating dry dock before, too bad we couldn’t trespass and get closer for better angles and closeups….

Seattle from Gas Works Park
Seattle from Gas Works Park

A throw away scene of people I do not know but I kind of liked it and its a documentary shot that I was there….for anyone who cares in the great internet future when they exhume my photos from pixel hell and I get that great gallery showing in some virtual rebirth a la PK Dick/ Ubik meets Gibson / Neuromancer…..

Dominique, a hat, a brisk wind and Gas Works Park
Dominique, a hat, a brisk wind and Gas Works Park

I think I said it all. Dominique, one of her nice Stetsons, in a brisk wind at Gas Works Park in Seattle…..

Gas Works Park detail
Gas Works Park detail
Nothing but blue.....
Nothing but blue.....

The widest view I was going to get that day of Gas Works Park, yea, I did play the colors and try to correct the noon day sun washing out the sky….maybe I am over compensating for something….I usually am :-)

Once upon a Western....
Once upon a Western....

Once upon a Western, a mask and a Stetson…..was a villain….well, here its just a stylish lady and COVID masks in Gas Works Park in Seattle..

Is this the one.....
Is this the one.....

Is this the one…Sonja gave a picture painted by a local artist in Seattle of the gas works….like she gave it to us almost 10 years ago on our last trip to Seattle….and we forgot it there…..and they forgot to bring it to us in London….so we THINK this is the angle the artist used in the painting, which YOU, the only person to read this far, will NOT see unless I invite you to my house or post a photo of it and then the internet will know the wonders that are my PIXELS. Just mine, not yours.

Meh, some place with a tower
Meh, some place with a tower

Throw away tourist pic

Non, pas de photo, encore....
Non, pas de photo, encore....

I have a picture of her MOTHER that her FATHER took with the SAME look of disdain….that one was called “Non, pas de photo….”

Stetson's Ahoy!
Stetson's Ahoy!

At least this tourist shot has somebody you care about, oh Internet readers! Stetsons! Boats! Are you not entertained?!??!!

We're Jammin'
We're Jammin'

No idea who these guys were but they were jamming’ in Gas Works Park…..

Artsy Photo #4
Artsy Photo #4

Low angle tight apeture shot trying to get the teensy cutesy flowers with the gas works structures fuzzed out in the background….my back does NOT like getting that low to the ground….

I'm a little teapot.....
I'm a little teapot.....

No, not really but it IS integrated into the portion of the Gas Works Park turned over to those little cretin’s also known as children. It was a throw away photo until the treatments elicited a mumble from my pre-reviewer, her of the Stetson……

The 19th century is alive.......
The 19th century is alive.......

Rivets, bolts, chunky metal stuff and a tight aperture…..plus black and white treatment…..other previewers of this photo seemed to think it was interesting……

Fetishism #1
Fetishism #1

I have a thing for sewer covers…..turns out, there is a whole instagram interwebz thing as well about sewer covers…..

Defund Line 3
Defund Line 3

I have no idea what Line 3 is, why it should be defunded or why these graphic artists put so much energy into these posters, but I can say from a purely Bougy perspective that is moi, I thought they were cute

Concrete I-ching
Concrete I-ching

I like this one, it appealed before the massive amount of treatment I did in Lightroom, precisely the thing I wanted was the concrete pieces cantilevered on each other….and yes, you at the back of the internet, I realize there is another Defund Line 3 poster that if I was MORE diligent and exacting, I would have SCRAPPED this P.O.S and made sure I left the poster in ULTRA-COLOUR oversaturated glory, offset with the black and white…….but man, I already take WAY took much time to edit my photos….

I can see Kansas......
I can see Kansas......

Not really, and I actually grew to like this photo, yes, the color is a bit overcorrected and garish (that green…..) but the shapes lined up quite nicely and someone who just happens to live with me and wears a Stetson BUT is actually kind of a real artist type person drawer type….she liked the composition too.

Mech-Red-o-saur devours yellow flowers!
Mech-Red-o-saur devours yellow flowers!

As I write this I am TIRED…..fresh out of quality snarkiness…… time for dinner…..A large red marine crane behind the yellow flowers whose name I am sure my wife knows….

Houseboats under Fremont Bridge
Houseboats under Fremont Bridge

Floating houseboats, quite chi-chi, under the Fremont Bridge

Fremont Bridge span detail
Fremont Bridge span detail
I can see the whole city....or I've been framed!
I can see the whole city....or I've been framed!

Not really…..Dominque taking advantage of a tourist distraction for her pleasure and amusement. Under the Fremont bridge

What if the Tardis decided to retire and be a bridge in Fremont?
What if the Tardis decided to retire and be a bridge in Fremont?

Dr Who is doesn’t know but the Tardis will retire someday and become a quiet bridge in Fremont, but only after Marvin the Paranoid Android’s 48th time through the entire universe.

Cheating in black and white somewhere in Fremont
Cheating in black and white somewhere in Fremont

Whenever I shoot an industrial or other scene and the color or something doesn’t quite work, I drop it into B&W because that makes it all better.

A walk around Sonja and Gino's

A walk around Sonja and Gino's
Finally some pictures....Allandale visit

Finally some pictures....Allandale visit

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