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Seurat would admire this too.
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A sun struck window
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Afternoon light on the wall of a shop in Portland, Oregon
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Posters that are weathering on a telephone poles on Alberta Street in
Portland, Oregon. The forms these paper shreds take remind me of
some cubist paintings and the collages of Kurt Schwitters.
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Absolutely magical!
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That's a really special photograph. Wonderful light and color.
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I think that the photo lacks contrast. We really cant tell that that is a monument. You should have the top of the monument in your photo also. I also think you would have a better photo if the horizon was level.
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This is a photo of posters that have weathered away. They are stapled
to a telephone pole in Portland, Oregon.
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This is where graffiti, bad words, and gang sigs have been painted
out... again and again.
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This is a place on a wall where graffiti and posters have been painted
over, and then weather has torn away at it.
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Thanks for your interest in my photos Markku, and your kind words.
When I moved up here to Portland, I was photographing into windows and reflections. But there were few that I found that really kept me coming back. I live pretty close to some neighborhoods that are run down, and there was this one building that people had been plastering posters on for years. As soon as I approached it, and saw all the the wonderful complexity, and all the letters and words, I new I'd found my new obsession. They reminded me of Kurt Schwitters, and the Abstract Expressionists.
To top it off, I attribute a great deal of importance to words, to language. I see languages as the Grand Meme. That is, the mother of consciousness. The sea of words keeps growing, and we each have a little part of it. When we die, the language, the meme of languages just keeps on growing. But where is it?
I like how these posters can have an afterlife... and aesthetic rebirth.
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I like this photograph so much.
It looks to my eye like a painting in the Photo Realist style. It so so rich in artificial light yet, it is still light out. Great conscious use of space. There are so many directions to go in the pictorial space, and yet our eyes movement is controlled by steps and walls and fences. And how delightful, with all these directions that the horizon is level. And only Cezanne or would put that pink building in the middle ground. The light on the stairs... the yellow light, and orange, the greens, and blue! Awesome photograph!
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Weathering posters soaked in the spring rains.
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Weather worn posters soaked with rain.
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Marvelous... awesome composition with the lovely face coming out of the dark triangle.
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Gorgeous light... and idyllic dream.
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Jeff Long said above what I was thinking... soo painterly!
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What colors... space, and composition. So thoughtful and "our times." Masterful!
Ascension
in Street
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I took many photographs looking into this derelict building. It was
torn down recently. It's still but there is movement.