We went to Bellingham for a day trip, principally to see the exhibit at Whatcom Museum of National Geographic wildlife photography.  The Whatcom Museum has multiple parts.  The more modern section is where the exhibit was but there is another part in the old City Hall.  I had seen this building before when driving through Bellingham and had been annoyed with myself that it looked imposing in nice light but I was in the car.  This time, I decided to get some shots of it.

The side of the building facing the street was in the shade so not great, but it would have made for a more cluttered foreground anyway.  I went around to the other side of the building that faces towards the harbor.  Not only was the sun on this side but, because the building is set on a hill, there was a slope down the hill which had some well laid out gardens to provide a foreground.  Some of the building details also appealed to me.  The iPhone provides a pretty good camera option when on trips like this and some pano stitching can also be handy, particularly as it allows you to correct for distortion as you look up at a structure.