A while back, on a trip to Seattle, I had the opportunity to attend a meet up with a group of local photographers for a photo stroll. The group met at the Georgetown Power Plant Museum, an old power-generating facility by the King County Airport/Boeing Field. The museum was having its annual bar-b-que, where they not only opened the plant for guided and unguided tours, but also had old cars & fire engines, model trains and demonstrations of smaller engines (steam, gas, hot air, etc.) for the public.

In the spirit of my past Friday strolls, I decided beforehand to concentrate on a simple element for this stroll, I chose circles and curves. In all my composition you’ll see one or both of those 2 element featured. Having never been to the plant before I was not disappointed with the abundance of these 2 elements.

Hope you enjoy this view into the past as much as I did. I am looking forward to more visits to unique places in the Pacific NW.

Here is a slide-show of some select pictures from this stroll.

As always your comments are welcome.

Enjoy!

Well week one’s self-assignment is in the can, as they say. The topic of the day was lines and shapes. The chosen location was Downtown Bend.

After a stop at Star Bucks to fuel up on a tasty Caramel Macciatto, I began walking looking for interesting lines and shapes. I didn’t have to walk very far, basically right out SB’s front door was the statue of the man on the bench. I liked the intersecting lines that the sidewalk and the street made…so that’s where I started. After about 2 hours I had done a circle around downtown proper and called it a day. Enjoy, I’ll post more after next weeks “assignment”. -t-

(note: I started doing these weekly projects in the summer of 2009 to 1. re-examine the fundamentals of design 2. find cool place in/around town 3. have a small break from shooting sports. Each week I chose a different design element and location to shoot and spent a couple hours on the morning shooting only that element and only in that particular location.)