Like Bob said, the Goose shot is excellent. I went through the whole set. What I noticed about my own reactions to the images is that the shots of burnt-out houses, nothing left but foundations and a lone chimney, were not that strong. If I had seen those houses before, if I had driven by them and noticed them before, then I would have something to reference the loss. The burnt out pickup truck(s), the bicycle frames, those I can relate to and feel for because I can “see” what they would have been before the fire. In this same context, I thought the first two BMW shots were really compelling. The left side - right side contrast of what was and what it became was just very stark.
After our flood this year our Servpro clean-up crew were from Pennsylvania and North Carolina. But after our 2017 flood the Servpro crew who came out were based in your area in California. Your shots of the Servpro trucks there made me wonder how many of the workers were out-of-state and how many were locals. I know I would not last long in a job that involved cleaning up after floods, fire, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc. But I would think the emotional impact of constantly dealing with disaster could be even worse when working in one’s own neighborhood/region. Anyway, nice set. Sorry you have to be there to see all of that. Stan > On Sep 20, 2020, at 1:00 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I went for a bike ride yesterday, I took the K-1, ended up going through some > other burned out areas on hwy 236 aka Big Basin Way. > > I stopped to take a photos of something else in the “fallen leaf” > neighborhood and this caught my eye > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/50362939082/in/album-72157716043467568/ > > About a block further up at the corner of Jamison Creek and big Basin Way I > saw this next to a burned out house. It’s funny, I realized that in the > moment, the loss of a child’s toy affected me as much as the loss of the house > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/50362830461/in/album-72157716043467568/ > > This intersection was in the news back in June. Someone saw a white parked > here with guns in it. To make a long story short it belonged to a right wing > extremist (boogaloo) who shortly thereafter murdered a deputy, nearly killing > his partner, and who it was later discovered had killed a cop two weeks > before in Oakland. It’s been an overly interesting summer for our sleepy > little community. > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/50362826386/in/album-72157716043467568/ > > A few weeks ago, someone posted a photo of a James Dean mural. Years, and a > couple owners back, the owners of the Brookdale lodge had a similar mural > painted on a wall facing hwy 9. Someone else bought the place, worked on > cleaning it up, and painted over the mural. There was an incredible uproar > from all of the locals, so they hired someone else to paint a new one, which > sucked. Another renovation cycle later, they were very close to reopening, > and Covid hit. They do, now, have a much better mural than the last: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/50362836591/in/album-72157716043467568/ > > If you go down towards Salinas, you will see a lot of John Cerney’s work: > https://www.johncerneymurals.com/ > > I just liked the title of this article I found about him > https://carmelmagazine.com/archive/outstanding-in-his-field > > Anybody who has driven South to Monterey on the coast has seen the whimisical > painting of someone loading a giant artichoke into a Nash metropolitan, > itself even larger than a real one which is at the bottom of this page > https://www.roadarch.com/signs/cerney.html > > Full set from yesterday. Again, it’s a bit large as it’s a lot of > documentation: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157716043467568 > > I have come to the conclusion that of the natural disasters I’ve experienced > so far, wildfires are my least favorite. > > > -- > Larry Colen > [email protected] > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
