salt pond colors Derelict Structure in Drawbridge
This image is one of a series on the colors and textures of the Salt Ponds of South San Francisco Bay. I am currently working on a couple of exhibits involving this series and would appreciate your comments. Is this one to keep or boot? Why?Drawbridge is an interesting place. It developed as a small town in the late 1800s on marshland along the railroad tracks in the middle of South San Francisco Bay. Abandoned by 1970, the structures are slowly sinking into the marsh.This photograph and most of the others I have posted on Photo.net are taken from kite-lofted cameras. A kite, unseen in the image, supports a small, radio-controlled cradle that holds the camera. I can position the camera by walking around and/or letting out or retrieving kite line. I aim the camera and fire its shutter using the radio while I stay at the ground end of the kite line. The camera can rotate through the compass, tilt from horizon to nadir, and change from portrait to landscape format. I compose my images by watching the camera and imagining what it would see. The whole process entertains me to no end.Details are available at http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap
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