A firm vision.
Depending on your view of the world, this is either nirvana or hell. I tend to the latter, but it still makes for a jolly display. I would imagine the clerks in this store go bonkers every now and then and start thinking homicidal thoughts. You can have too much order ….
Rectangles.
Who could resist this gorgeous assemblage of rectangles?
Seen in Carmel, CA earlier in the week.
Here’s the real thing:
The modern Leica at work.
The Bay Area Rapid Transit (San Francisco subway/tube/metro) was rocking and rolling mightily when this was snapped, suggesting that Panasonic is onto something with its OIS anti-shake technology – check the shutter speed, above. Don’t be expecting this feature in a Leica until the M14 comes out three decades hence, at which time the economy will have recovered and some dumb ass banker will lend you $100k to buy the thing.
By the way, the auto white balance in the G1 is every bit as good as that in the Canon 5D, which is to say it’s awful. I had to mess with the color sliders in Lightroom 2 to get a semblance of accurate skin tone in this snap.
Doubtless Walker Evans would have killed for this sort of technology, not to mention color, when he snapped this one back in 1938 as part of his subway series:
Evans used a camera concealed in his coat triggered with a remote control. No such subterfuge was called for in my picture.
Urban art at its worst.
Walk south along that chicest of San Francisco’s streets, Fillmore, and turn west on McAllister and you are suddenly in an area which feels like a concentration camp. Lined with housing estates for the poor, each comes with a healthy ration of locked gates, barbed wire and surveillance cameras.
Then, just when you though things could get no worse as you approach City Hall, something like this confronts you:
An appropriate tribute to one of the greatest government crimes of our times. Public schooling. This mural suggests that this chap finally cracked and set about himself with a heavy object, doing the students justice. Can’t say I blame him. Just imagine turning up to school only to be confronted with this daily ….
Those were the days.
Back in the days when men were men, and women were men. At the UN building in San Francisco.