A spot of timing.

I reckoned that if I pressed the button just so, the legs would mimic the Transamerica pyramid. In the event, I lucked out, with the parking meter adding a surreal touch.

Click the picture for the video. On Pacific Avenue, San Francisco. G3, kit lens.

InterfaceFLOR, in the interesting foreground building, makes carpet squares for industrial and office use – modular carpets for a modular world. What’s not to lke about that lovely brickwork?

Click the image above to watch a video explaining how I changed a bland, washed out sky to gorgeous cyan with a couple of quick adjustments in Photoshop.

Update: A reader kindly pointed out that my fairly aggressive brightening of the foreground had introduced noise, so a couple of tweaks on the noise sliders in LR3 put that to right. The revised picture appears above. Note to self: Have eyes checked.