South of Seattle's business district and south of T Mobile Park is a broad flat area that is heavily industrialized. Rail lines criss-cross the area feeding King Street station and numerous companies and warehouses. Boeing Field is to the west, a short distance from the Duwamish waterway. Here are a few frames from March of 2025, an overcast day with soft light.
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| Downtown Seattle from South Horton Street (135mm ƒ/3.5 Pentax-M lens) |
The Amtrak train and the Sounder run on some of these tracks as they approach the King Street Station.
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| Sounder commuter train, King Street Station (Canonet GIII QL17 camera) |
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| King Street Station clock tower |
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| King Street Station view south |
The bell tower on the Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy inspired this graceful clock tower. When new in 1906, it was the tallest structure in Seattle.
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| View south from South Horton Street |
The neighborhoods south of the city offer interesting subject matter. I want to explore some more.
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| Fixer-upper house, 3rd Avenue South |
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| Guard Lion, South Bennett Street |
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| Teriyaki, 4th Avenue South |
Most of these pictures are from Kodak Portra 160 film. I used my Pentax Spotmatic-F camera with various Pentax lenses. The photos in the King Street Station are from my Canon Canonet GIII QL17 compact camera. It has a superb 6-element 40mm ƒ/1.7 lens. I scanned the negatives with a Nikon Coolscan 5000ED film scanner.
1 comment:
Very nice images from both those cameras and the Seattle light. I thought it was interesting in that first shot to see how the old Smith Tower is dwarfed by its neighbors. I suspect, though, that there are a lot of empty offices in those big buildings.
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