{"id":6625,"date":"2015-07-10T15:37:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T23:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=6625"},"modified":"2015-07-10T15:55:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T23:55:34","slug":"shooting-photos-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/10\/shooting-photos-a-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Photos a Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Waking up early on a summer day.<\/p>\n

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Perched atop a tree, chirp. What to do today?<\/p>\n

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Fourth of July we saw a wind instrument concert in Oak Meadow Park in Los Gatos. I love to look at kettle drums, and to hear them. <\/p>\n

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And my fellow Los Gatos citizens here amid our signals and wires.<\/p>\n

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I love propeller hats, I didn\u2019t used to know that anyone actually wore them. But this li\u2019l guy does.<\/p>\n

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Couple of weeks ago I was at a beatnik themed conference at Fort Mason in SF. The event wasn\u2019t real well attended. I walked around for quite awhile taking pictures. I love corroded, peeling old walls.<\/p>\n

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V. Vale was there with Marian Wallace, we went up and had a nice cheap dinner at the little-known hostel on the hill behind Fort Mason. I said a few words on Vale and Marian\u2019s panel talk<\/p>\n

You can listen to Podcast #86 on the Rudy Rucker Podcasts channel.
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I lost my glasses that day, which was bad for me, as it took me nine days to get a new pair. Horrible experience.<\/p>\n

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Dig the cherub with the rat. It\u2019s on a big sculpture <\/a> in front of the De Young museum in SF, honoring wine, made by the famed illustrator Gustave Dore. <\/p>\n

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This is my idea of really successful photo. Shot in Cruz. I love abstract visual designs made up of daily objects. You can see the photo better if you look at the 1200 pixel across version<\/a>. Should the foreground be in focus or the background? Can be a tough call. I went for the foreground this time. Does that work? How about if you look at the 2400 pixel across version<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Ever since I started shooting with my wonderful wide-angle lens on my Fujifilm digital X100T camera with 22m f2 lens, I\u2019ve been tilting the camera more and more. I picked that up from looking at a lot of Garry Winogrand photos a lot of times. Winogrand used to deny <\/em>that his camera was tilted. In some higher sense it was level, and I\u2019m starting to get that. <\/p>\n

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Another nice random pattern photo, a child\u2019s leg with some pens. I prefer not to put the faces of my family on my blog, but this red leg is very expressive in any case.<\/p>\n

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Another example of the kind of shot I like. Taken on the hill behind Fort Mason looking down at the parking lot. I don\u2019t like seeing parked cars in my photos, they bore me, so I crop them out whenever I can\u2014often using a \u201ctilted\u201d\u009d crop frame if that\u2019s what I need. I like the three trees. The godlike trees calm, and the human-street-line-painted parking area all bossy and honking and busy. And the colors are dull, as it\u2019s misty in late afternoon SF.<\/p>\n

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You can\u2019t do much better than a photo of a neon roller rink sign. When I was little my Mom would drop me at a roller rink in downtown Louisville for an hour or two, and a lot of kids my age would be there skating. I saw my first electronic game ever there, it was a shooting game, you had a \u201cgun\u201d\u009d with a metal node on one end and you were looking through the sights at a turning metal disk with planes on it, and when your node touched the bump on a plane while you pulled the trigger you got a point or a beep or something. Paradise.<\/p>\n

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This is a fat swollen stump near Stow lake in SF. Bloated with life. Everything is alive.<\/p>\n

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A painting by one of my grandchildren plus a random houseplant. I truly to wish I could paint like a kid. That was one of Master Picasso\u2019s skills. Sometimes I\u2019ll fake it by starting with a kid-like underdrawing, or even copying something from a kid\u2019s painting.<\/p>\n

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And we saw some turtles in Stow Lake. I rented an electric <\/em>paddle boat for $14 extra\u2014worth every penny, as son Rudy said. You don\u2019t paddle at all just glide. At first I thought the turtles were bronze sculptures.<\/p>\n

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This is how I looked when I was just realizing that I\u2019d lost my glasses last week. I was so bummed that I went out and bought two <\/em>pairs of new ones. Let joy reign unconfined, as my Pop used to say when he\u2019d get some kind of treat for my brother and I after we\u2019d whined for it for a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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