Little Boxes, San Francisco, CA, 2024.
Little Boxes, San Francisco, CA, 2024.
Little Boxes, San Francisco, CA, 2024.
All the pixels, made of ticky-tacky, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54062971395/
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Captured with the Rodenstock 138mm/6.5 HR Digaron-SW lens (@ f/7.1), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50, 1/125 sec), Cambo WRS 1250 camera. Stitched panorama of two images, shifted left and right +/- about 18mm.
This view reminded me of Malvina Reynolds's famous 1962 song (though she was inspired by another San Francisco neighborhood - Daly City). If you look closely, the houses don't quite "all look just the same", but somehow, on the hillside there's more uniformity than there is up close.
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This is an image that works best at the highest resolution. The Rodenstock 138mm lens has extraordinary edge-to-edge sharpness and a general lack of distortion that makes it especially well suited to wide stitched panoramas like this one.
The effect is sort like Where's Waldo; the whole is shown mainly to invite you into the details.
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@mattblaze@federate.social @mattblaze@federate.social Black and white masks the limited range of pastel paints used on many of these houses, particularly in Daly City.
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@karlauerbach@sfba.social If you don't like my photo, you are free to make your own. I didn't steal the photons.
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@karlauerbach @mattblaze
yes, Matt's image is a very different view than the hackneyed standard Daly City postcard. Which would be better rendered with an easel and pastels than Kodachrome anyway.Matt's use of digital B&W in the built-environment particularly is approaching a digital Ansel Adams for a new century.
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@mattblaze@federate.social It is interesting how distance and nearness change our perceptions of pattern, sameness, and difference.
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@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social Yeah, that really struck me when I looked out at the hillside.
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@mattblaze@federate.social all the ticky tacky, on a bunch of hillsides
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Cool picture.
Someone should make a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one. 😁
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@mattblaze@federate.social
Looking there led me to another nice photo.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53796724938/in/photostream/
It makes a good hike, great views over the Valley.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Umunhum
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@mattblaze@federate.social +1 Classical Allusion
(for refernce to the song)
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