Seattlest Pix: 09Jan13

"SoDo Tracks" by SlightlyNorth

The tiltshift on this beautiful brown and blue photo lends a dreamy, drunken birds-eye perspective to a sight common across the U.S. Railroads have said "working man" to us ever since we were told the bed-time story of John Henry. Henry, the tall tale goes, was an African American railroad worker in the early 1800s with a few extra servings of physical strength and sheer force of willpower; after building railroads across the country from the age of three weeks, he battled a steel-driving machine and won. The battle cost him his life, but the story of John Henry reminds us of the power of the human being to persevere through challenges that might seem to ask too much of us. Don't forget to add your creative shots of all-too-human life in Seattle to our Seattlest Flickr pool. Thanks!