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Here are some representative samples of my work.

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upload count as of September 2023: 62,306.

Seattle, Washington

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.

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

Golden Gardens Park

Golden Gardens Park at sunset.

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

Registered Historic Places

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.)

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

Georgetown PowerPlant Museum

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

Gas Works Park

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

Other landmarks

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

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

International District

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

Museums, art galleries and artists' studios

Greg Kucera Gallery

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

Sand sculpture

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

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Kubota Garden

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B. Marcus Priteca

Some buildings by architect B. Marcus Priteca.

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

Comet Lodge Cemetery

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Animals

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  Great Blue Heron.
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  A very photogenic squirrel:
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  A cormorant over the Fremont Cut.
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  Goats with their keeper on the University of Washington campus.

Animals in northern Tukwila

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.

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

Art

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".

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

Oh, and one more panorama

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.