Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have to admit that my viewpoint was biased that day and it shows :-) Palo Alto is actually quite nice, otherwise all these rich CEO would not buying here :-P Next I will photo all the homeless people that supposedly don't exist, and all the Lotus and Tesla... On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>wrote: > Thanks for the tour. I must confess that Palo Alto does not appear > particularly attractive in this series. Rich people behind fences, big cars > everywhere, nobody walking around...I imagined something more similar to > Berkeley or Cambridge (MA) but I guess I was wrong. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > > YNWA > > > > On Sep 25, 2011, at 10:32 AM, Richard Man wrote: > > > (Drat, something wrong with my new domain www.richardmanphoto.com so > this > > will be an inline post!) > > > > I needed to test out some film processing procedures, so I took the bike > out > > and rode out with the XPan. Nothing special here, but may be give you a > > sense of life in our fair city. > > > > The unemployment rate in California is well over 12%, but you wouldn't > know > > it in Palo Alto. This new house is designed by an architect, being built > on > > a "large" (quarter acre?) lot. Most houses that come to the market are > sold > > within a few short weeks. Facebook/Google effect. > > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-1.jpg > > > > The following non-descript photos of a blocked off temporary fence is the > > new home of Larry Page. We rode by it over the Summer and we were aghast > at > > how big the property is. It's about half a city block long! We didn't > know > > it's Larry Page's house of course, but we did figure that it must be some > > rich CEO or something. > > > > Then the day afterward, the local newspaper said his new neighbors > > complained that the construction was pumping out a lot of ground water > with > > an accompanying photo. > > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-2.jpg > > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-3.jpg > > > > A basker and someone taking a nap: > > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-4.jpg > > > > Border declared bankruptcy and closed all stores. The Palo Alto location > was > > in an old theater that probably dated from early 1900s. The restaurant > next > > to it, Hans Bistro, has my images on their wall since 2009. > > > > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-5.jpg > > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-6.jpg > > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-7.jpg > > > > The other old theater, is still functional! Thanks to David Packard (the > son > > of the HP founder). > > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-8.jpg > > > > And we even have a local bookstore! Apparently since 1932 > > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-9.jpg > > > > As you may have seen from Herb's photos, our city likes to spend money > on... > > arts. There is now an art building made with glass bottles of different > > sizes right in front of the City Hall: > > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-10.jpg > > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-11.jpg > > > > The local fire department must also be doing some sort of employee > > appreciation day or something: > > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-12.jpg > > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-13.jpg > > > > With that, my roll of film was finished, and time to go home. > > -- > > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> > > // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all > previous > > replies in your msgs. ] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]