10 February 2021 – But then there are all the days that I don’t go down in the woods.
I go down an urban alley instead.
Where, for once, my eyes slide past the marching hydro poles that usually obsess me, even past the red dumpster positively shouting for attention…
to land on that convex mirror on the left, greedily pulling peripheral images onto its bulging surface.
I move in close, peer upwards…
and discover a whole dancing universe of lines, arcs, and circles.
bluebrightly
/ 13 February 2021Alleys like that are fascinating – there’s one in a town near me (not Anacortes, but the bigger town that’s near I-5 called Mt. Vernon). Oh, Joe says maybe it was somewhere else – anyway, I don’t remember seeing this kind of pole arrangement in any alleys back east.
icelandpenny
/ 13 February 2021Not at all like Toronto alleys, the the hydro poles are out at the edge of the street & are a single pole not doubled, so a very different framing of the alley here & I see that some local photogtaphers & artists make it one of their iconic images
bluebrightly
/ 13 February 2021It’s interesting that that look has become iconic!
icelandpenny
/ 15 February 2021That strong linearity lends itself to dramatic, minimalist imagery
bluebrightly
/ 15 February 2021Very true, and do you think there’s an appealing, almost industrial kind of look, too? I think lots of folks (myself included) like that look.
icelandpenny
/ 17 February 2021yes, that’s exactly what this is…
bluebrightly
/ 15 February 2021And I just read the subsequent comment and your reply so yes, you see that too. đŸ˜‰
Mary C
/ 13 February 2021Those hydro poles really dominate the alley. Interesting lines though.
icelandpenny
/ 15 February 2021A powerful brute-industrial image, marching down an alley like that… So different from Toronto ones!