Sunset Hill · June 2012
Posted Aug 18, 2026
A Sun Break Off Shilshole
One boat, one gap in the deck, and the neighborhood on the bluff behind me living up to its name.
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Wallingford · October 2011
Posted Aug 18, 2026
Gas Works, in Two Kinds of Contrast
A decommissioned gasification plant that Seattle decided to keep for historical purposes.
Lawton Park · July 2011
Posted Aug 18, 2026
West Point, at the End of the Park
The lighthouse at the far end of Discovery Park, on ground the army held for most of a century.
Montlake · March 2011
Posted Aug 18, 2026
Avocados Two for a Dollar
The Montlake Boulevard Market, photographed before it was torn down for the construction that stands there now.
South Lake Union · December 2010
Posted Aug 18, 2026
South Lake Union, Before Amazon
A stitched night panorama of the far shore, dated December 2010, before the campus that rebuilt this neighborhood went up.
Pioneer Square · December 2010
Posted Aug 18, 2026
The Lamps Are Not the Old Part
Seattle's first street lighting burned coal gas a few blocks from here in 1873, delivered through hollowed-out cedar logs.
Briarcliff · September 2010
Posted Aug 18, 2026
Named After the Wrong Tree
The neighborhood is named for a tree that does not grow here, and the culprit is holding up the left side of this frame.
Green Lake · August 2010
Posted Aug 18, 2026
Last Row on Green Lake
An eight crossing the sun track at the end of practice, on the flattest water in the city.
Pike Place Market · April 2010
Posted Aug 18, 2026
The Market in Full Colour
April at the market, where the colour turns up months before the city grows any of its own.