No, not the planet.
Everyone knows this one:
And here’s today’s version:
Maybe not as powerful a rendition as with that Raphael but a good effort nonetheless, the towel replacing the hair. Notice how the towel has been cleverly sculpted to imitate the shell in the original.
And if you are wondering where you saw that backdrop before, look no further than Hearst Castle’s pool:
Accidental lighting.
This building in San Francisco’s charming North Beach neighborhood is being patched up but all I could see were rays of light falling on the wall. Plus, of course, a touch of Bonnard in that strangely inclined table.
A bird that has it right.
In a world run by small minded bureaucrats who make useless rules to ensure job tenure, you can only agree with this bird’s scofflaw attitude. And who cares if you loiter in a tight alleyway anyway?
I used ImageAlign to correct the tilted verticals – this was in a very tight alleyway so I had to tilt the camera up quite a bit to get the snap. ImageAlign helped remove the tilt, via a round trip from Lightroom into Photoshop CS2. I could have done this using the Transform command in CS2, but ImageAlign is so much faster.
Wise words.
Seen at the Vesuvio Cafe in San Francisco.
I really couldn’t put it better myself.
Another neo-Hopper.
I actually had to use the LCD screen to frame this, as the lens was zoomed to maximum, invalidating my glued-on optical viewfinder.
A recurring theme for me is the loneliness of the big city, crowded as it may be. You have to love the native widescreen format of the LX-1 for this sort of thing.