Alchemy
Somehow, a bike and a camera can turn a quick outing to do two easy errands into a three hour odyssey to Middle Harbor Shoreline Park and other spots around town. Sadly, I only ended up with a couple of photos that seem worth posting here:
Somehow, a bike and a camera can turn a quick outing to do two easy errands into a three hour odyssey to Middle Harbor Shoreline Park and other spots around town. Sadly, I only ended up with a couple of photos that seem worth posting here:
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The first one is really cool.The background looks like a reprduction of a Japanese artist the name I forget but it was the cover art back in the late 70′s early 80′s for a paperback version of Mishima’s “The Sailor who fell from grace with the sea”.Is that a grill in the pic?
April 7th, 2010 at 11:14 pmHokusai. As for the grill, think again:
April 7th, 2010 at 11:22 pmNow that I look at that cropped portion of the photo, I think I may actually like it better than the full version. Oh well!
April 7th, 2010 at 11:41 pmBoth versions are wonderful. Amazing how much the emphasis changes.
April 8th, 2010 at 5:15 amAnd what is that thing with the yellow blocks with letters? (I can’t tell what the size on that one is!)
April 8th, 2010 at 5:16 amI like the original–the detail is all there, just with Hokkusai’s big wave (but without Mt Fuji) for background. Are those yellow blocks on top of carts of some kind?
There is so much beauty in the world. Are there outtakes on your flickr page?
April 8th, 2010 at 8:04 amLove both the original wave + piano pic and the cropped version.
April 8th, 2010 at 8:07 amI’m glad you all like the pictures.
The yellow blocks are pretty big (2 feet tall, maybe) and are atop tall poles (25 feet or so?), which is part of why I had to shoot them from that low angle. They look like the signs that are used to mark sections of large parking lots. I spotted them down at the Port, so instead of marking the location of cars in a parking lot, they may have been used to mark the locations of shipping containers or some such.
The only outtake I’ve posted on Flickr, at least so far, was a more straight ahead shot of the yellow blocks, with a fence and some sort of cargo loading ramp underneath them. (I prefer the shot with just the poles and the sky.)
April 8th, 2010 at 10:58 amWow,A piano is something I did not see at all.That’s a great pic.I guess piano did not enter into my thought process because it was outside and I’ve been grilling a lot of late so I saw some old large outdoor gas grill.
April 8th, 2010 at 11:27 pmAlternate name for top photo: Crescendo
April 10th, 2010 at 3:10 amAnd I’m imagining a new candle in the bottom photo…
April 10th, 2010 at 4:53 amI do like the piano — since I associate so many memories with piano music. Could it have been a player piano originally, the rolls having been in that open space above the keys?
But what I like most on this cropped version is the pale salmon color of the paper or cloth contrasting so well with that bunch of blooming twigs in front of it.
Your “Bama” picture (Olio) has not stopped puzzling me, to say nothing about those finger people.
April 16th, 2010 at 5:00 pmThe first photo is amazing! Where is it from?
April 19th, 2010 at 2:33 pmSussu: I’m glad you like it! It’s actually in your neck of the woods, on a wall of Soundwave Studios, which is on Wood Street near where West Grand Ave. connects to I-880.
April 19th, 2010 at 9:19 pm