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Here are some representative samples of my work.

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My current upload count: 54001.

Seattle, Washington[edit]

For my Washington State photography outside Seattle see User:Jmabel/Washington. Also, most of my uploads of archival material pertain to Washington State.

View from the Alberg Terrace, University of Washington.

Alki Beach

Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery Park

Duwamish Waterway, looking upstream toward South Park.

Lanterns at Luminata, 2019
St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral
St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church
Shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint James Cathedral (RC)
Picardo Farm
Picardo Farm
Alki Beach
"The Squirrels"
Westlake Park...
...Westlake Center...
... and looking north on Westlake Avenue
Brutalist fountain, Freeway Park...
...which is a popular site for parkour
... a very photogenic sport.
The old Battelle campus in Laurelhurst
Protest action…
…against U.S.-South Korea FTA
Olympic Sculpture Park
Center for Wooden Boats
Sunset in Georgetown
Fishermen's Terminal at sunset
Hattie's Hat (bar in Ballard)
The inevitable Space Needle shots...
...but, I hope, more interesting than most.
Steam plant at night.
Belts for sale at the Mediterranean Fantasy Festival
An old seal of the city, no longer used.

Golden Gardens Park[edit]

Golden Gardens Park at sunset.

Burning Christmas trees on New Years at Golden Gardens
Kite-flying; Shilshole Marina in background
Paraglider practicing
Flautist
Silhouettes on a sunny winter afternoon
Beachcombing with a metal detector
Looking through the old bathhouse to the water
American widgeons, and a male mallard at left

Registered Historic Places[edit]

One of my projects has been to photograph places in Seattle (and thereabouts) that are on the National Register of Historic Places.

(The image above is the frieze of Seattle's Great Northern Building.)

A lovely old library in the Fremont neighborhood.
Relief sculpture of a walrus adorning the Arctic Building
Interior, Church of the Blessed Sacrament
The D.A.R. building in the Harvard-Belmont Landmark District
Panama Hotel sign
College Inn
Broadway Performance Hall, a remnant of Broadway High School
Terracotta, Eagles Auditorium
Montlake Bridge (south tower)
Engine House No. 3
Ward House, widely considered Seattle's oldest house (although there are other contenders, depending on the criteria)
R-class sloop Pirate, a famous racing sloop, at the Center for Wooden Boats
Stimson-Green Mansion, home of Joshua Green
Oddfellows Temple

Georgetown PowerPlant Museum[edit]

Exterior (from the west)
This one is from on the grounds (south face)
Upper hall
Gauges
I have no idea what this particular brass object does, but it's very cool-looking

Gas Works Park[edit]

Gas Works Park and a view across Lake Union to Downtown.

Other landmarks[edit]

... and some official city landmarks that don't have NRHP status

The Querio House in South Park
Kinnear Park on Queen Anne Hill
The Seward Park Inn
Franklin High School
A gargoyle from Bethany Presbyterian Church on Queen Anne Hill

International District[edit]

Stage curtain of the former Nippon Kan Theatre
Chinese chess (and Chinese kibbitzers)
Coconuts at the Night Market
Goldfish at the Night Market
Lion dance
More lion dancers in a fireworks haze
Just outside the ID, the Seattle Buddhist Church...
...site of the Bon Odori in July
An Asian-American variant on the Seafair Pirates

Museums, art galleries and artists' studios[edit]

Greg Kucera Gallery

I had the opportunity to photograph this Viking warrior helmet at a temporary exhibit at the National Nordic Museum
Artist studio, 619 Western
Rock/Dement Gallery, Toshiro-Kaplan Building
Kate Protage in her studio, 619 Western

Sand sculpture[edit]

Some much more informal art: sand sculpture at Sandfest in Westlake Park, August 2006.

Kubota Garden[edit]

B. Marcus Priteca[edit]

Some buildings by architect B. Marcus Priteca.

The Paramount Theater
(Here's the interior)
The former Coliseum Theater
Langston Hughes Performing Art Center, formerly the Synagogue of Chevra Bikur Cholim
Admiral Theater, West Seattle
Former Crystal Pool (now Cristalla)
Another Crystal Pool detail

Comet Lodge Cemetery[edit]

Animals[edit]

Great Blue Heron.
A very photogenic squirrel:
Play media

I even got a short video of her.
A cormorant over the Fremont Cut.
Goats with their keeper on the University of Washington campus.

Animals in northern Tukwila[edit]

There's this weird little big of Tukwila along the Duwamish River, carved out of Seattle mostly at Boeing's behest. I've gotten some pretty cool animal shots there.
Technically not Seattle, but I believe most people think of it as Seattle.

Bunnies.
Canada Geese fighting near North Wind's Weir.

Art[edit]

This stained glass window depicting Moses with the Tablets, now on the western side of the Schoenfeld-Gardner Chapel of Temple De Hirsch Sinai, Seattle, Washington, U.S. is one of the few surviving elements of the original 1908 Temple De Hirsch, where it was located on the east end over the Ark and Torah. It dates from c. 1908; a text at the bottom says "In memory of Fred Schwabacher the gift of his mother".

Detail, James Everett Stuart, "Mount Rainier from Elliot's Bay", oil on canvas, 1889
One of the Ancient Chinese "military guardians" on the Art Ladder of the Seattle Art Museum
An unusual Makah piece: a basketry-covered lightbulb

Oh, and one more panorama[edit]

I really like this one. There's a tiny flaw at lower right, but otherwise seamless.

Looking east from Ballard Bridge. Seattle Maritime Academy at left.