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.
Scenes in San Francisco.
The master is everywhere to be seen.
