Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Homeless people and expensive cars are not exactly part of my definition of quality of life. YMMV (pun intended :-)) 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 26, 2011, at 8:35 AM, Richard Man wrote: > 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. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >