One of my projects that I am tackling these upcoming weeks is to capture a certain part of a neighborhood in Seattle, and to capture the beauty of it. This will be for a magazine spread and other people will also contribute their photos of their part of town. I chose Ballard just because I love the environment and culture in that suburb. So they assigned me the Fisherman’s Terminal.
I headed out to Fisherman’s Terminal the day before, which was one of the few times the sun came out, and went in and around the terminal. I took about a couple hundred photos before the storm came in. Was reasonably satisfied with them.
Then I returned today to see if I could get some better shots. To my surprise I found a few more that I did like. One of which is this one. Now from a first glance it may seem like “Gross!” but instantly when I saw this I thought If I could get a good shot/angle of this piece of dung, I can capture beauty and disgust as one. Thus making it one of my favorites.
This can go both ways, beauty meets disgust and disgust meets beauty.