At the VA cemetery.
Americans are …. Americans.
5D, 15mm Fisheye, Image Align, 1/180, f/5.6, ISO 400
One nation
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Alone
Just two visitors.
Visiting the VA Cemetery in San Bruno, CA yesterday, there was but one other there.
Meanwhile, you couldn’t get a parking space at the shopping mall across the street ….
5D, 400mm ‘L’, 1/500, f/5.6, ISO 800
Bricked up
Why do I smell government at work here?
It’s not like only modern architects and builders have the sole franchise on boo-boos:
5D, 24-105mm at 97mm, 1/3000, f/5.6, ISO 400
Now what kind of twit would do a thing like that to a beautiful facade?
Could it be because the building belongs to the local government here in Paso Robles, CA?
Maybe the person doing this was concerned about a Window Tax – something which wouldn’t surprise me given the composition of our local government here and its greed for tax revenues. But wait a minute, no government would tax itself, right? And how could all that material and labor cost be cheaper than a pane of glass?
Eureka! I get it now. The bricklayer was the mayor’s brother!
Wall Street then and now
Similar styles, 90+ years apart.
Visiting the excellent Magnum web site I could not help but be struck by the stylistic similarities of Paolo Pellegrin’s 2008 pictures of Wall Street compared with the 1915 snap taken by Paul Strand.
Paolo Pellegrin, Wall Street, 2008
Paul Strand, Wall Street, 1915
You can see more of Pellegrin’s work here.
LIFE and Google
Google is doing what LIFE could not.
Google recently announced that it is digitizing some 10 million images from LIFE’s files. High time and well done, Google. Beats me why Time-Life couldn’t do this. These precious images will only last so long before the next bankruptcy/fire/reorg results in their loss for ever.
Here are some links:
Here are examples of the quality of the work heretofore hidden from view:
Alfred Eisenstaedt – 1939 World’s Fair, New York
May 1945. Sir Winston Churchill leaving St. Paul’s Church following the memorial service for
Franklin D. Roosevelt, followed by his daughter, Sarah.
By the way, you can see his daughter Sarah in the great Fred Astaire musical Royal Wedding. It’s the one with the amazing scene where Astaire dances on the ceiling. She was a half decent dancer and actress – career choices which made WSC none too happy.
To search Google Images just click here. To limit your search to LIFE pictures, enter your query thus – in this case you would be looking for WSC:
Winston Churchill source:life