Keep out, except for vandalism purposes

It's been kind of hectic at home with our new arrival, so I'm sneaking in under the wire for the one-image-a-day, which I've managed to maintain to date (knock on wood).

This is "Contrast" theme, image #4, but I think I might stop counting: I think it's a rare image of mine that doesn't have enhanced contrast, and I'm no longer sure what I mean by such alterations being "central". Maybe it's just because it's kind of late at the moment and I'm over-tired. At any rate, contrast manipulation is definitely a big part of this image; I wanted the graffiti, which struck me in person, to really stand out.

A couple weekends ago, my good friend John Thimsen and I went to blow off steam by shooting pictures at Sandpoint, AKA Magnuson Park, in Seattle. This park is the site of an old army base, and there are a bunch of disused buildings in various states of decay.

We spent a while taking images of the exterior of one structure in particular, a falling-down commissary, which is the subject of this amusing 1968 letter to the Seattle Times I stumbled across with Google. This junction box is the first image I'm posting from that shoot.