Ruston Way

So strange when you find stuff practically in your back yard that you'd had no idea was there. Ruston Way is a drive just north of downtown Tacoma that used to be a thriving lumber-trade area, with mills and shipping piers and all kinds of industry built out onto the water. As the timber industry declined in the area, it became quite a desolate, hazardous site with polluted water and crumbling buildings.

 

Now, fortunately they've revitalized and cleaned the area, put in restaurants and have a nice little park along most of the waterfront - but just a few feet out in the water they left many remains of the old industrial buildings. It's a photographer's playground . . . and I never knew about it until a week ago. I've been down twice since then. Any photographer visiting the Seattle area really should make this trip.

 

The bottom two outtakes are from a more 'standard' location down by Alki in West Seattle. One at very low tide (pilings) and an I-don't-know-if-it-works long exposure of a sailboat rocking in the waves.

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