Faces of Pikes Place Market
©Bert Gildart: Want Dungeness crab, wild albacore, or wild medium shrimp? Want to purchase a specialty knife, wild tulips, yellow nectarines, packham pears, Fuji apples, wild Alaska King salmon, halibut, or fresh rainbow trout?
Whatever you want in the way of food items – or something perhaps a little on the funky side – most likely you can get it at Pike’s Place Market in Seattle.
Pike's Place Market
Named after the central street, Pike Place runs northwest from Pike Street to Virginia Street and remains one of Seattle’s most popular tourist destinations. It is one of the nation’s oldest market places dating back to August of 1907. The market is located about a 20 minute bus ride from the Collegiana — the hospital-affiliated apartment house where we’ve been staying.
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My interpretation of faces is liberal and includes fish, vendors and a man talking to his parrot.
He struck a pose he thought I’d like, and I did.
The Market is built on the edge of a steep hill, and it consists of several lower levels located below the main level. Each features a variety of unique shops and restaurants, and understandably, it attracts all sorts of people.
That’s essentially what I’ve focused on here, and though I spent a total of about two hours, you could easy spend the day.
For the first image I simply elevated my camera high above my head, held the shutter down and then looked to see what I got.
With a little practice the technique works. The young lady and her dog were watching from street level as people sauntered by. The oriental lady was selling flowers, seemingly by the case load.
If you are interested in photography, this is a very special place. Simply point your camera lens in the right direction and try to blend with the masses of people who are in turn doing little more than watching people — watching people. Find your decisive moment, then click your shutter. Ideally, you’ll need a camera that will enable you to shoot at a high ISO. You may also need to do a bit of post processing to reduce “noise” associated with a high ISO.
Here are some samples of what you can get with a little patience – and because my focus was essentially on the people poking along the “landing” let’s call this posting the “Faces of Pikes Place Market.”
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Hiking Shenandoah National Park
Hiking Shenandoah National Park is the 4th edition of a favorite guide book, created by Bert & Janie, a professional husband-wife journalism team. Lots of updates including more waterfall trails, updated descriptions of confusing trail junctions, and new color photographs. New text describes more of the park’s compelling natural history. Often the descriptions are personal as the Gildarts have hiked virtually every single park trail, sometimes repeatedly.
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Montana Icons: 50 Classic Symbols of the Treasure State
Montana Icons is a book for lovers of the western vista. Features photographs of fifty famous landmarks from what many call the “Last Best Place.” The book will make you feel homesick for Montana even if you already live here. Bert Gildart’s varied careers in Montana (Bus driver on an Indian reservation, a teacher, backcountry ranger, as well as a newspaper reporter, and photographer) have given him a special view of Montana, which he shares in this book. Share the view; click here.
$16.95 + Autographed Copy
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Glacier Icons: 50 Classic Views of the Crown of the Continent
Glacier Icons: What makes Glacier Park so special? In this book you can discover the story behind fifty of this park’s most amazing features. With this entertaining collection of photos, anecdotes and little known facts, Bert Gildart will be your backcountry guide. A former Glacier backcountry ranger turned writer/photographer, his hundreds of stories and images have appeared in literally dozens of periodicals including Time/Life, Smithsonian, and Field & Stream. Take a look at Glacier Icons
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