passerby – Page 2

We’re spending most of January in southern California (south of fire-ravaged LA). Technical note: I used Adobe Camera Raw’s beta reflection remover on this and it did a pretty fair job, except for the white blob on the far right and some vestiges along the top. Expect to see lots more California shots over the coming days and weeks, many of them kind of touristy.

Christmas on Riverside Drive

Night in the City

More images I considered, but didn’t pick for Urban Exoticism.

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Urban Exoticism

I had a cousin who was an optician. He offered me an after-school job at his shop. He told me he’d teach me how to work the lens-grinding machine but to be careful lest I fall in and make a spectacle of myself.

Some more urban night shots from the archive.

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Urban Exoticism

Some more of the 70+ images that didn’t make the grade for submitting to Urban Exoticism.

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Urban Exoticism

I continue with samples of images I rejected from my Urban Exoticism contest submission.

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Urban Exoticism

Continuing yesterday’s theme, here are some more of the images that I didn’t feel quite made the cut for the Urban Exoticism submission.

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Urban Exoticism

I recently entered a competition on “Urban Exoticism.” From my archive I found 76 images I considered candidates, but only 5 could be submitted. Over the next few days I’ll share some of those that didn’t make the cut.

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Tree and Wall

A candidate for adding to Urban Tree Portrait?

Have Brains, Will Travel

The slogan of the Brains Brewery, “people who know beer, have Brains,” is the kind of clever advertising I enjoyed seeing around Cardiff. I did not, however, get the opportunity to taste any Brains while there.

Arcade

Cardiff is famed for its many shopping arcades. The sign over the Taco Bar below (click to enlarge), advertises “unauthenc Mexican food” [sic].

Both Sides Now

I missed it

Sitting in the shade at the Place de la République I saw this priest walking across the square and reached for my camera. By the time I had it out of the bag, he had turned and started chatting with this cyclist and the shot was gone. In the meantime, other photographers were attempting images with their Leicas (lots of older men wandering around with Leicas in Arles, shooting, I don’t know what…). Anyway, I clearly missed the shot and didn’t even nail the exposure.