Sunflower (seed development)

It is neat to see the blossoms before they turn to seeds this close.

Smoky skies have low contrast (Duochrome)

When I saw sunlight on my curtains this morning, I was eager to get out and shoot some more Polaroid (Originals / Impossible) Duochrome, but the sky is filled with smoke, and so I can't get the contrast I want.  The light has a baby-aspirin-orange cast.  Shadows are present, but muted.  The sky is an ambiguous color - not blue, not gray, not quite as poetic as a William Gibson reference to a dead screen - and so I'll need to wait patiently for cleaner air before I revisit the scenes I'm eager to shoot.  

(I'm sure I've noted it before, but the building is Mira by Studio Gang.)

Multi-texture/color entrance

Modular screen

I like this screen.  I intended to shoot it in Duochrome today, but the sky is too smoky to get the contrast I want. (I'll post about the architect who designed this in a future post.)

Absolutely, positively no entry!

This is a different design than I'm used to seeing...  I really think the side facing me shouldn't have any edges that a vehicle's bumper could catch on and use to push at it.  But I am used to seeing one large barrier that eases up, rather than so many little ones, so there may be some advantage to these I'm unaware of.

Zoom nights

Not about the video conferencing product: about going fast at night.

Polaroid Duochrome is pretty sweet

Any day I get to test a new-to-me film is a good day, and Polaroid Duochrome in Yellow made for a very good day!  

Yes, it is a 600 speed film that I insisted on shooting in my SX-70 under a neutral density filter; yes, I forgot to move the filter to the second package of film (oops), which wasted 6 shots; yes, another two frames failed to eject entirely, so those were also wasted.  The film develops slowly, so I had left the scene before realizing some of my prints were overexposed.

Yet, once I learned what light needs it has, got my ND filter on, and used the 'darken' wheel?  INSTANT FILM JOY.

(Featured Duchrome photos take near and inside Salesforce Transit Center (which I'll also call the Transbay Terminal) designed by Pelli Clark Pelli)

Waves above rams

There are other waves downtown, but these are especially vibrant with the lines in between.  I may need to revisit the rams with a longer lens.

Dahl-Beck’s great sign

So red! Such a nice range of neon and fonts! So clean!  It's absolutely festive.

Another view of SFMoMA

I'm always looking out, never in...

YBG doing its thing

Gardens being gardens.  The gardeners do a great job making the plantings on this particular roof feel a little wild and natural, while the ground-level gardens are more about lawns and organized planting beds.

Two tiny windows

Just those two on such an enormous wall!  It's so funny.  

Fresh hydrangea

Modernist P.A.

Peninsula street life

It is always lovely to see the street used by PEOPLE instead of cars.

Usual terra cotta fun

Stanford neon

Old movie theaters have such great signs!

Taupe with Spanish frosting

I went on a field trip to Santa Clara County yesterday, my first in ages!  It was fun to get out of the fog belt and feel like a tourist.

1062 (red and cream)

Texture appreciation - plaster edition