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Pioneer Square
Seattle, WA
Classy Romanesque Revival example. (Note the rounded arches.) One of my favorites in Pioneer Square.
Seattle Police used to have a station here on the corner of the first floor with the huge windows (as I remember).
Presumably named after Doc Maynard, the more easy-going, bottle-tipping, Indian-friendly foil to founding father and upright Methodist Arthur Denny.
This was also the original Dexter Horton Building before it was renamed. Dexter Horton was the pioneer who would establish Seattle's first bank. He started out as one of Henry Yesler's employees at the mill, just a couple blocks from this site. Later he opened up a store, going into business for himself. He must have been very trustworthy because his fellow citizens entrusted sacks of gold into his care. And that's how he became a banker.
Dexter Horton died twelve years after the Maynard Building / Dexter Horton Building was completed. The current Dexter Horton Building is another period showpiece, much larger than this building and constructed a few blocks further up downtown during the boom of the 1920's, long after the death of its namesake.
f-shop: f/5.6
exposure: 1/100
ISO: 100
My intent was to capture this fountain for black and white but frame it so that the sky could not really be seen to bleach out the tones of the fountain.
f-stop: f/9.0
exposure: 1/250
ISO: 100
My intent was to capture this landscape of dead standing tress I think they are interesting because of the intense lines they create and they look unusual, it is also interesting because they grow in large clumps so the whole image is filled with these vertical lined dead trees stretching out for a long time. I also liked that there was the diagonal branch of a fallen tree toward the bottom left to capture the viewer's eye.