Seattle photojournalist Karen Ducey | news and documentary photographer

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  • Crewman Lee Fleury prepares to throw the grappling hook at a crab pot buoy off in the distance while Lyndon Yockey (rear) runs the hydrolics to manuever heavy crab pots being stacked onboard. The 20003 Bristol Bay red king crab season lasted 5 days and 2 hours and was plagued with gale force winds of 35 knots or higher almost everyday causing to seas to rise 10 to 15 feet. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Gillnet fishing boats jockey for positions to make a set for sockeye salmon during ebb tide on the North Line fishing boundary of Egegik River in Bristol Bay, Alaska in July 1996. Bristol Bay is home to the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery managed by the Alaska Department of Fish & Game. It is a sustainable fishery. The commercial salmon drift gillnet fishing fleet is limited to boats no longer than 32 feet in length. There were over 1,800 permanent entry permits listed in 2002 required by every boat. Typically boats fish with two or three deckhands. Peak of the season is around July 4th in this fishery which lasts about a month. The rivers also get a fair amount of chum, king, and chinook salmon. Bristol Bay is located in the southwest part of Alaska. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Thousands of Boeing employees watch videos and listen to speakers at the company's 7E7 Dreamliner Employee Celebration in Everett,WA. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Photos taken at Magnum Venus Products (MVP) in Kent, Washington on January 22, 2020.
  • Photos taken at Magnum Venus Products (MVP) in Kent, Washington on January 22, 2020.(Photo by Karen Ducey)
  • Heidi Lee (left) watches her husband Kenny Lee scribble a name in concrete mix during a ceremony celebrating the freshly poured 43rd story of the eco-luxury Bellevue Towers on May 14, 2008. The Lee's bought a unit on the 12th floor. A bucket of concrete mix (in photo) was brought in by a crane for a ceremonial {quote}final Pour{quote}. Construction is scheduled to be completed in Novemeber 2008 making it the tallest peak in Bellevue. Thanks in part to the elevated grade of the building site, Bellevue Towers is now the cityís tallest peak. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Ironworkers on the crane aofthe Washington Mutual building, WaMu Center, as it was being constructed. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Cityscape from the Alaska Way Viaduct before it was torn down, in Seattle, Wash. on February 2, 2019. The two-mile-long tunnel and the viaduct were open between the Battery Street Tunnel and Seneca Street so people could walk the roadways for the last time. The walk was part of the grand opening celebration for the State Route 99 tunnel through downtown Seattle. (photo copyright Karen Ducey)
  • The F/V Alsea, a dragger, also known as a trawler, fishes for pollock in the Bering Sea. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Corrie Morrison (left) and Lisa Krebs, pull in a sockeye salmon on Krebs' setnet site on Egegik River in Bristol Bay, Alaska in June 1996. Bristol Bay is home to the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery. The rivers also get a fair amount of chum, king, and chinook salmon. Bristol Bay is located in the southwest part of Alaska. (© Karen Ducey Photography)
  • A train carrying steel in Gary, Indiana. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Crewmen on board the F/V Exito ready a crab pot to be stacked onboard while red king crab fishing in Bristol Bay. The season lasted 5 days and 2 hours and was plagued with gale force winds of 35 knots or higher almost everyday. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Gillnetters Richard Penn and his daughter Leslie Starr from the Muckleshoot tribe pick their net during opening night of the treaty commercial fishery for chinook salmon in Elliott Bay in Seattle on Wednesday, August 9, 2023. They caught around 50 fish in their first set. The annual fishery occurs from 8pm to 8am, one tide. 224683
  • Salvador (white shirt) and his brother Misael Moreles pick and clean lettuce at their farm NW Green Farm Produce at Viva Farms in Burlington, WA . Originally from Mexico the brothers grow 30 different varieties of produce. This summer they grew 30,000 heads of lettuce and encourage more people to buy produce from local farmers because it is healthier. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Wine at the Chateau St. Michelle Winery in Woodinville, WA. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Photos taken at Magnum Venus Products (MVP) in Kent, Washington on January 22, 2020.(Photo by Karen Ducey)
  • Santiago Lozano, owner of Lozano Farms, at Viva Farms, in Burlington, Wash. on September 24, 2012 and in Mt. Vernon, Wash. at the Youngquist Farm estate auction on September 27, 2012. (photo by KarenDucey.com)
  • U.S. Steel plant in Gary, Indiana. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Salmon seiner, the F/V Monk\'s Habit, fishing off Kodiak Island, Alaska. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Tony Reece of Hi Line Helicopters speak with bolt cutter Jose Acuna prior to a job in the foothills of North Cascades outside of Concrete, Wash. on May 22, 2007. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Dale Lathim, Executive Director of the Potato Grower’s of Washington and President of the Potato Marketing Association of North America (left) and grower Mike Pink of Pink Farms watch an agricultural machine destroy his potato plants in his field in Mesa, Washington on May 1, 2020. Pink had half his crop destroyed in order minimize his losses and plans to grow sweet corn there instead. A billion pounds of potatoes sits in excess in Washington state, the second largest potato producer in the country. About 70 percent of its crop usually goes to overseas, to Pacific Rim countries primarily, in the form of french fries, but with so many restaurants/food service closed in U.S. and internationally, they have way more potatoes than they can sell. Last year they didn’t have enough to meet demand; now growers are facing the prospect of losing it all. (photo by Karen Ducey)
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