Clandestine Pike Place portraits

2018: Dribs and Drabstracts

End of the year once more, and here are a few odd ones out from 2018.

Parallelogram, Cannon Beach OR

Five Logs, Christiansen Nursery, Mt. Vernon WA

Loading Dock, Cottage Grove OR

Unilluminated, Cottage Grove

Final Frontier, Eugene OR

What Makes It Tick, LaConner WA

Lines, Pike Place Market, Seattle WA

Diptych, Bellevue WA

Three Nines, Renton WA

Nucleus, Rockaway OR

Burning of the Houses of Parliament, Juan Ferry, WA

Rorshach, Seaside OR

Landscape with Truck, Seattle WA

Veiled, Sky Nursery, Lynnwood WA

Evolution, Tacoma WA

To the Bone, Tacoma Maritime Museum, WA

The Market at 10 PM

Apologies to Giacometti.

Hardly a palace, especially at 10 PM -- let alone 4 am -- Seattle's normally bustling Pike Place Market does settle down a bit at night.

Took these on my circuitous way home from a neighborhood "Harvest Festival."

Revelers

Lurkers at the Gum Wall

The Night Watch

The Crafts Bazaar

This Way Down

The Sanitary Market

Level 5

For future reference, you're on Level 5.

Pike Place Market parking garage, Seattle

The Comfy Monster

A mess of geometry at Pike Place Market, Seattle. I love the duct painted to resemble brick. I love the bright hank of twine slumming it on the electrical pipe. And, to paraphrase Colonel Kurtz, "The patina! The patina!"

Night and Day

In the crepuscular parking garage, Pike Place Market, Seattle

Who Wants Yesterday's Paper

Wilkommen! Today's Theme Thursday concerns itself with PAPER. Sorry, iBook/Kindle fans, paper is the best. Plus...it's recyclable.

"Nothing will hold us back"

Compression

Past events

Ex-Boxes

Theme Thursday: I'm not talking about computer games. I'm talking about the earthly remains of cardboard boxes that have shuffled off their mortal (?) coils. Nonetheless I love the collage effect.



Loading dock at Seattle's Pike Place Market

And a Duct Runs Through It

What the tourist guides don't show you, backstage at the Pike Place Market.

Pike Place Planes

I have always loved the Market. I have dreams about the place, with its myriad passageways, stairways, nooks, and portals.

Alas, it's sometimes hard to take good resolution photos there because the light levels are low, and I hate flash. So contrary to my usual anti-'Shop inclinations, I experimented with making these less "resolved" (like my dreams...and it also approximates what the world looks like without my specs). Robin says I'm turning into a painter.

For full impressionistic effect I recommend clicking for blowups.

P.S. This is my 101st post, whoopie!