Originally Posted by rich caramadre
Very nice Rich!!
Very nice Rich!!
OK - here a couple of "oldies". I had a car stolen in 1970 (nice red Porsche 911 - ouch!) and the insurance money paid for a BMW 2002 and a Linhof Kardan Bi 5 x 7 - two real classics! BMW is long gone but the Linhof is still hanging in there.
Wall and Graffiti, Chelsea, Massachusetts,1971 by Kirigakuresaizoh, on Flickr
Chevy, Chelsea, Massachusetts, About 1971 by Kirigakuresaizoh, on Flickr
Spirit 2 by Kirigakuresaizoh, on Flickr
OK - let's bump this up
Charlie by Kirigakuresaizoh, on Flickr
Meet Charlie. He and his mother came walking down the street while I was taking the previous photos. He was carrying the doll. (But I think it belonged to his mother.) Charlie was - well how should I put it - arguably not the sharpest lens in the bag, so to speak, but a really amiable guy. Even if he was hitting the bottle at 10AM. I sent him a couple of copies, but no idea what became of him. A couple of months after I took the photos there was a huge fire that destroyed almost 20 blocks I always wondered what happened to the folks like Charlie that lived among the scrap yards.
A strange portrait perhaps, but no stranger than some guy with a big camera taking pictures of junk. I really like the way the doll's dress stands out in a predominantly blue scene
Excellent photo and great story. Where exactly was this taken? It's probably somewhere downtown or the old barrio?
Love it, Ken! Love that it's with the 2D.
Lee Smathers
www.photoevangelist.com
It was taken in Chelsea MA just North of Boston. The area used to be full of scrap dealers - I guess today you'd call them recyclers. There was a tremendous fire in 1973 that wiped out 18 city blocks.
Ah ok, It didn't look like Tucson very much :P
No it doesn't - or rather didn't. What it looks like now I have no idea. I grew up in the Boston area and lived in NY/Virginia/Caliifornia/Japan/and California again before moving to Tucson.
Tucson looks more like this:
Looking East 2 by Kirigakuresaizoh, on Flickr
Looking North by Kirigakuresaizoh, on Flickr
Or at least that's how it looked for a couple of hours a few weeks ago (also 5 x 7 - 19"Artar/Provia/Kardan Bi)
Funny you... I remember 110º
110? That's coming soon. When we moved to Tucson the first week we were there it was above 112 every day. The record high I think was 117. But a couple of years ago it got to 14 in the winter. If you average the temperatures it's pretty pleasant.
Actually we quite like the place in spite of the "warm" summers - I think the August monsoons are fascinating - the clouds are huge.
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