Picture Notes

I was wondering how this would look on line.

This is what I like most about digital photography, being able to use parking lot lights for lighting. I realize that this really isn’t much of a photograph - it’s just a bicycle locked up on a railing in front of a fast food place. It’s about 5:15 pm during the winter and I’m walking home from the metro with my digital camera. I like the confusion though and the negative space and the shapes that are created with the metal and in the middle of all this visual noise there is an orange diamond with instructions.  It’s kind of an over the top snapshot. Anyway, here it is. Another day in the suburbs. What a funny word, suburbs. It’s an old word - [Middle English suburbe, from Old French, from Latin suburbium : sub-, sub- + urbs, urb-, city.] suburbium is more fun to say.

I’ll get back to more faces next.

when the open door to a dark smelly metro train looked inviting. Just another ride in the tunnels and on some days you have to move to a different seat or a different car because of the smell. There’s nothing exciting anymore about traveling underground at 55 mph and in the last month my fare has gone from 2.70 to 3.75 for the same trip, the same delays, the same service and I’m still looking at the same tired people, but so are they. We all seem to have the same scars.

Today I’ve run out of words, so I’m just going to post this photograph.

Live chat on a an Apple PowerMac, Brazil to Virginia. This is great technology, connecting the world one pixel at a time.