Lunchtime saw a brief sojourn through some new streets which yielded a shot of three buildings I’ve photographed before but at new angles and one of my favorite flower photos to date. The weather was beautiful, clear and bright, which made it optimal conditions to try out my new polarizing filter. I’m very pleased with the results.
The top picture, while not having a stellar composition, really pops and the spray painted sign tickles my juvenile side (on Flickr it is titled “Middle School”). The second is of that church I am so found of but this time looking uptown at it against the Fox 61 building, otherwise known as “Stilts”. The rose was found thriving above the I-84 underpass among dead grass and concrete. I love the effect that the filter gave the background, dark and impressionistic.
Security cameras fascinate me in that they so aptly represent the unflinching, uncaring, and unreasoning bureaucratic systems and people who have bought into the notion of surveillance as security. While they pique a sort of curiosity in me they also tend to make me sad and a little anxious at the same time.
The last two shots are of the roof to the new science center being erected near the river. The roof is this weighty object the ponderously hangs in the sky with its only support being a series of spindly legs.
It might seem that I am gripped with some sort of spiritual revival as that church steeple keeps popping up in my shots around Hartford but it couldn’t be farther from the truth. When I look up at that tower I think about princesses that need saving, skills to be stacked, and dice to be rolled.
