Backbone

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**UPDATE**

Taking Bakwaas' advice I cropped the first light pole. The edited version is here


The string of street lights reminded me so much of a spinal column of a whale I had seen in a museum as a child. Every time I passed this bridge I thought of taking this picture but either I was the driver so it would have been dangerous to take a pic or I didn't have my camera with me or it was night time and the pic was all blurry. This time I was in a bus so I could take the pic but there's some motion blur in it. Since I always wanted to capture the shot I didn't want to miss another chance. I've bumped the saturation a bit and cropped it slightly. That's about all the PP that I did.

Peeking through the Glass

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That's my 75-300mm canon lens. I was cleaning lenses and noticed the depth of reflections the overhead lamp caused in the lens. Had to get the angle right to get maximum reflections in the maximum colors I could.

Looking Yonder

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An experiment in selective coloring. The sky was a flat pale blue so I thought I'll make this B/W and then I thought I'll try giving it selective coloring. Took over an hour to do it. The result is mediocre but I'm putting it up anyways.

Circle of Love

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This is from my archive. I recently told a friend about it and she couldn't find it so I'm posting this again. Besides most of you haven't seen it before.

Tick Tock

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The thing that caught my attention while taking this shot was the angles of the lines in the shot. A single frame provided so many angles and they all blended beautifully (in my opinion). Its the clock over Long Beach train station.

Pillars 14 || Poles 7

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"It's a bright sunny day in Long Beach, CA. The skies are blue, there's not one cloud in the sky, the temperature's a balmy 70 degrees and the fans have all come out to enjoy a good game and cheer their teams. This has been an exciting game so far. We are in the third quarter and the Pillars have the upper hand. The Poles haven't been able to break through the Pillar defence which looks like a brick wall. But don't count out the Poles just yet they are all men of Iron. The players are lined up. The Pillars in pink brick pattern jerseys and the Poles in daunting black striped jerseys" ... the small pole on the right side of the frame looks like a quarterback screaming "56!! 28!! 145!! Hutt!! Hutt!!" (or something like that... for those who don't know what the hell that is.. its something from American Football)

Speaking of American Football isn't it odd that the only time that the ball is actually hit with the foot is when one team has to hand over the ball to the other team and when a field goal has to be scored? the rest of the time the ball is carried in the hand...and YET its called "Football"....but its an exciting game to watch once you know what's going on and Super Bowl rocks!! Anurag Mathur was right when he named his novel "The Inscrutable Americans"

Totally Board or Totally Nuts?

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There's a path of wooden boards on the edge of one of the lagoons near my place. Clean and polished (who does that anyways?clean I can understand but polished too??) I mean you can see the sunlight reflecting off of it in the frame. I was on my tummy trying to capture this pattern. I wanted to focus on only the first bolt and imply that the rest were symmetrical. I was down on my tummy for this one too and there were many joggers and walkers who rolled their eyes and probably thought "He's nuts!!" while others probably thought "That's what boredom will drive you to do"... well and there you have a pun for a title.

Carved in Stone (addendum) - Bird Brain

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This pic is an addendum to the series Carved in Stone. It was taken in Long Beach, CA. The statue is of Lincoln I suppose and it felt as if all the pigeons were posing for me. I mean imagine the statue to be really big and instead of pigeons there are models posing on the pedestal. But you know how difficult it is to get top models..you call them and then wait till your grandkid picks up the phone one day and say "Grandpa it's Heidi Klum's assistant for you. She says she'll do the shoot now but only if you provide a walking stick and the lighting is not too harsh on her wrinkles"...and I roll my eyes and think geez now she'll perfectly with the writing on the statue "Old Glory"... Ok so you'll have to stretch your imagination to the limit, humor me will ya? Oh come on just for a minute. For a second?

Photographer's block

I am suffering from a serious bout of photographer's block (a distant cousin of writer's block). I need a muse. Anyone volunteering? No? oh well I guess I'll just have to keep wandering the streets of San Francisco looking for my muse. I am currently working on a new theme... Elements.... But I want to make this theme creative... i.e. show the elements in a different perspective...so I'll put up some random pics till I have my theme ready... oh I almost forgot... I am running out of themes... so after elements how about everybody suggest themes and I'll compile the folio?? Just a thought... sleep on it...

Nocturnal - Cousin

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