Little Boxes, San Francisco, CA, 2024.
All the pixels just look the same at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54062971395
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@[email protected] But are those pixels made of ticky tacky?
@[email protected] Ticky tacky is an approved construction material for earthquake zones, evidently.
Captured with the Rodenstock 138mm/6.5 HR Digaron-SW lens (@ f/7.1), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50, 1/125 sec), Cambo WRS 1250 camera. Stitched panorama of two images, shifted left and right +/- about 18mm.
This view reminded me of Malvina Reynolds’s famous 1962 song (though she was inspired by another San Francisco neighborhood - Daly City). If you look closely, the houses don’t quite “all look just the same”, but somehow, on the hillside there’s more uniformity than there is up close.
@[email protected] my late wife introduced me to that song in Australia and now I cannot get it out of my head whenever I’m going to/from SFO!
This is an image that works best at the highest resolution. The Rodenstock 135mm lens has extraordinary edge-to-edge sharpness and a general lack of distortion that makes it especially well suited to wide stitched panoramas like this one.
@[email protected] love the symmetry. Very nice composition
@[email protected] It does not get the full impact without the pastel colors of the houses.
@[email protected] I’m more interested in shapes and lines than in colors.
@[email protected] Love the photo, and especially the caption. I feel a bit less normal about all the times I’d look up at a Bay Area hillside and hear Pete Seeger in my head. I’m still not sure what “ticky tacky” is, though.
