Corner Architecture

This building is clearly one of those buildings that you take a picture of when you see it, and hope to find an angle or look that nobody else has seen or captured before you.

I can’t remember where this building is, exactly, but it’s close to where I live.  And it’s a Yale building.  And it has a wooden exterior.  Did I mention that behind the wood planks is glass?  It’s like the whole building has on those 1980′s Max Headroom glasses that everybody wore for a week.  The building looks better than we did.

Chamberlain Building

If only my Hola had geotagging built in.  I’m pretty sure this is a photo from NYC last summer, though I really can’t recall for sure.  I still like it though, even if I don’t know where I took it!

Worm's Eye View

One of my favorite things to do over last summer was visit Central Park, specifically Sheep Meadow.  This was one of our later trips to the park, and I had with me my Fuji GW690 II to take some photos. Ages ago when I was learning photography, I was told by my mentor, Hide Terada, “Mike… change your perspective.  Get low, get a worm’s eye view.  Get high… and you’ll get a totally different view.”  Back then I thought he was talking all photography, and more than likely he was.  I’m not quite as naive as I once was, so maybe he didn’t just mean elevate my shooting position.  Regardless, every now and then Hide still talks to me and this day I heard “get low…” so I did.  In any other location, I probably would have gotten strange looks laying on my stomach trying to take a photo as low as I could get.  In New York, I don’t think anyone even realized I was there.  It’s a good thing.

Bleeker Street Station

Another photo from none other than NYC.  There’s not much to say about this one.  It’s a subway station entrance on Bleeker Street for the uptown 6.  Which, of course, you could have gotten from the photo.

Buckets

Not long after I received my Fuji GW690 II in the mail, I of course had to test it.  This was one of the test shots I fired on a walk to work.  After work, each day during the summer, I see children playing under these buckets.  The bucket slowly fills with water, and once it reaches enough volume, tips over dumping the water on the kid below.  The kids, being kids, squeal with glee each time it happens.  Of course, the fun behind it is you never know how long it will take for each bucket to reach the tipping point.  Luckily for me, there was no water in the buckets when I stood under them to take this photo.

You can’t see it here, so you’ll have to take my word for it, but the GW690 II – combined with the Epson V700 scanner I use for film – did such a great job scanning this image that you can see enough detail on the screw head to tell what kind of driver to use when attaching this bucket.  It’s an Allen wrench, by the way.

Scary Building

During the fall I was walking around with my Holga and as I approached the entrance to the Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, CT, I saw this building… and it’s accompanying scary fence.  I’ve since started calling this building “the scary building.”

For those of you who haven’t seen the entrance to the Grove Street Cemetery, when you see it you’ll remember exactly why it is that many people avoid cemeteries like the (pardon the poor historical reference) plague.  Above the entrance is the phrase “And the Dead Shall Be Raised.”  Creeeepy.

When I turned around and noticed this building, complete with entwined, serpent-topped fence my heart jumped a little.  Not quite as much as a friend of mine who, on a dare, ran up to the door and knocked, then posed for a photo on the front porch of the building.  To see where this building is in New Haven, CT so you can see “the scary building” for yourself follow this lovely link from Google Maps.  You’ll also notice when you click off the satellite view of the map, the building goes away.  Again I say, “Creeeepy.”

Painted Maple

I have no idea what ever could have caused a pattern like this on the pathway.  I was walking around and the radial spray look caught my eye first.  Once I started looking closer, I realized it really looks like a maple leaf.

Shot on my trusty Fuji GW690 II on Kodak 400NC-2 film.

Fall Reflections

Today’s update is again from last fall.  I was eating lunch on Yale’s campus by the forestry building, and just happened to have my Holga with me.  This is a small pond at the end of an open courtyard with various aquatic plants.  These were on their way out, but were still giving a last-gasp effort to stay upright.

These City Walls

Another photo taken while walking back from work.  I just happened to have my trusty Holga with me when I saw the utility pole’s shadow across this wall.  The paint used to cover some graffiti looked rather like a very small building, and it just struck me as fun compared to the shadow of the utility pole and the very clean lines of the parking lot.

No More Shopping!

I picked this gem up several months ago on a post-work photo walk.   The shopping basket was sitting on a loading dock near where I work, and I just had to have the photo.  Lucky for me it turned out pretty well.

This photo was taken with a Fugi GW690 II 6×9 camera on Kodak E100VS slide film.