Artist Thomas Whipple is one of the community voices featured on the Ballard News-Tribune BLOG. Every week he shows people how he sees Ballard - through the lens of a camera and reworked using HDR technology.

This week Whipple featured the Ballard Locks:

"The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks are a complex series of locks that sit at the west end of Salmon Bay, part of Seattle’s Lake Washington Ship Canal. They are known locally as the Ballard Locks.

I live aboard a boat only a few blocks from the Ballard Locks. These Locks and surrounding area have provided many interesting sights. Planning and construction of the Locks started around 1906 and the first vessel passed in 1916 before the official opening in 1917.

On the particular day when this photo was taken, I arrived just as “The Island Breeze” was pushing a 56-foot-wide barge through the 80-foot-wide lock. Doing the math makes us realize that it had only 12 inches of wiggle room on each side."

Read the full story and more music, art, and entertainment news at www.Blog.BallardNewsTribune.com.