Seattle photojournalist Karen Ducey | multimedia, news, editorial, and documentary photographer

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A pot of red king crab is dumped onto the sorting table where the crew will begin sorting out the legal sized males, 6.5 inches or larger. Thos crab are then tossed into one of 3 large tanks below deck filled with seawater and kept alive until the boat returns to Dutch Harbor, AK where they will be processed. On a pot this size which had about 60 "keepers", the crew estimates that a fullcrewshare guy would make about $100 per pot or a $1,000 per hour (at the pace of 10 pots per hour). The bonanza lasted about 2 hours before the pots started coming up less full. The smaller crab, which are juveniles and females, are tossed back into the sea, a regulation dictated by the Alaska Department of Fish & Game to preserve future stocks. This year's ADFG forecast of 14.7 million pounds was the largest projected harvest of Bristol Bay red king crab in 12 years. It will be several weeks before crabbers know if that harvest was met. The season lasted 5 days and 2 hours and was plagued with gale force winds of 35 knots or higher almost everyday.
   
Thousands of Boeing employees watch videos and listen to speakers at the company's 7E7 Dreamliner Employee Celebration in Everett,WA.
   
Ironworkers on the crane aofthe Washington Mutual building, WaMu Center, as it was being constructed.
     
  
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.
   
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 "final Pour". 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.
  
Robert Jaeger (orange) and Brian Morningstar (yellow) grab a flash pot holder handed to them through the hatch on the top of the Space Needle. 12 flash pot holders will be installed on the edges and will hold devices producing a white strobe; a new effect for this year's New Year's fireworks celebration.
     
  
Bill Nye (left) and Woodruff T. Sullivan, III hold a copy of the MarsDial which they designed,built and put on NASA's Mars Rover. The two are encouraging others to build sundials and film them with webcam's which they can link altogether.
   
"Help me out. Don't just try and kill me." specialty cheesemaker Kelli Estrella says of her frustration in dealing with the the Food and Drug Administration at the Estrella Family Creamery in Montesano,Wash. on November 4, 2010. The FDA ordered the Estrella Family Creamery in Montesano,Wash. to stop processing cheeses after it found listeria bacteria on some of the cheeses this year. The family says they have made many renovations on the farm and the bacteria is only found on the soft cheese, not everything. They believe they should be allowed to resume making cheese and sell the hard cheeses they have already made at the facility. The creamery is one of Washington's most famous artisan cheesemakers. (photo credit Karen Ducey). .
   
The fishing vessel "Nowitna" takes a wave over the bow during a storm during the Bering Sea opilio crab fishery in January and February of 1994. The Bering Sea is known for having the worst storms in the world. © Karen Ducey
     
  
   
Ironworker Don Shields, of Skanska, guides unistrut (used to carry electrical conduit) through a7th story window on the east side of the King County Courthouse building via a specially modified crane. Iron beams, some of which weigh over 5,000 lbs. come in through the windows as well and will be used for new seismic support. The building has been undergoing a major project to stabilize it in the event of an earthquake.
   
U.S. Steel plant in Gary, Indiana
     
  
Sockeye salmon fishing in Bristol Bay Alaska on board the F/V Dr. Jack in July 1998
   
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.
   
Workers from Pioneer Masonry Restoration Company clean the western quadrant of the Tacoma Dome.
     
  
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.
  
A train carrying steel in Gary, Indiana
   
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.
     
  
   
  
Conductor Mikhail Pletnev leads the Russian National Orchestra with the Seattle Symphony through Tchaikovsky's symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 at Benoroya Hall in Seattle on March 29, 2006.
     
  
Shadows of John Cook and Todd Bishop at the Geekwire Summit in the WSCC Conference Center on February 8, 2012. (copyright Karen Ducey Photography)
   
US Sen. Hillary Clinton appear at Biodeisel for a press conference promoting alternative fuels in Seattle, WA on January 27, 2006.
   
Wine at the Chateau St. Michelle Winery in Woodinville, WA
     
  
A seafood and shellfish platter made up at Oceanaire in Seattle,WA
  
A Playboy Martini at Tini Bigs (with vodka, coffee liquor, and heavy cream) is one of the P-I's top 10 drinks of the year. (PI photo/Karen Ducey)
   
Captain Randy Lato of All-Ways Fishing holds a King salmon one of his clients caught while fishing off the coast of the Washington State Olympic Penninsula in Area 3 LaPush about 6 miles offshore. All-Ways Fishing offers Pacific Ocean fishing charters for small groups on board his 26 foot XL Olympic fishing boat out of Forks,WA.
     
  
Joy Acey, from Snohomish, WA, holds up an xray of her mouth taken shortly after her wisdon tooth surgery with Dr. Florian Thompson went awry on May 13, 2005.