Seattle Photographs: Pioneer Square

Pioneer Square
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Some of our readers have commented that we don't feature enough photography from the Northwest region. Fair enough—with the Frye Museum, Henry Art Gallery, and a great portion of Downtown, Seattle is an incredible fount for the creative visual arts, as well as a stunning subject. As a native "Seattlite," I am familiar with the melancholy of Seattle's rain-soaked streets. The light, near-constant rain creates countless tiny reflections nearly everywhere you look. That's classic Seattle sky in the above image. Imagine all of the white as a magnificent blue and you've got the city in the summer.

Since we were there I decided to shoot some photos of Pioneer Square, Seattle’s first neighborhood and an area that I hadn’t really explored before. I shot shoot some photos of Occidental Park, the Fallen Firefighters’ Memorial, Smith Tower, the Waterfall Garden and a bunch of other stuff. As we were walking around we I discovered that Pioneer Square was also the birthplace of United Parcel Service (UPS) in 1907, which was an interesting bit of trivia to come across.

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