Tag: Streetscape
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Streetlights of Rome
I could have used this first image as a high-contrast entry in last week’s post, but it makes a good transition into this week’s theme: street lamps. For that matter, this next image would have worked, too: Moving beyond the simple silhouettes, this next image is fun. It’s a rather cluttered alley with all the…
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Light in my Eyes
Rome, Italy. March 2026.
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High-Contrast Rome
As promised, this week’s collection of images are much higher-contrast than last week’s: lots of deep shadows and silhouettes. The image above exploits the strong late-afternoon light raking across the face of the building., which accentuates the texture and adds long shadows cast from the smallest of protuberances. My favorite part, though, is the way…
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Channeling Mylar
Rome, Italy. March 2026.
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Roaming the Roads of Rome
Wandering around central Rome with a camera. It’s easy to get tired doing that, but not easy to get tired of doing that. There are fun things to find down every alley and around every corner, and there are a lot of both. The only real challenge is that Rome is somewhere being popular and…
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New Toyota in an Old Town
Rome, Italy. March 2026.
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London Silhouettes
In March we visited London for a few days as a stopover on our way to a family vacation in Rome. While I made a lot more images of Rome, I wanted to share the ones from London (and a few nearby places) before turning our attention to Rome. I always like to have a…
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Credit Cards Accepted
Decatur, Alabama. May 2025.
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Serviceless Stations
On one of our backroads drives in Alabama last August, we came upon an abandoned gas station. August in Alabama is hot and humid. So humid, in fact, that when I got out of the nicely air conditioned car my camera completely fogged up. (Want to avoid this problem? Keep your camera in the trunk…
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Chomp
Portland, Oregon. November 2023.