Perfesser_Bear
Centro de la Comunidad 3
Blinman Street, New London
I was looking for a particular older building. I remembered it on a back street in New London, Connecticut. It faced a narrow street and had a sort of 'Green Man' escutcheon on the second story level; but it had been twenty years since I saw it last, and it could have been gone. I didn't have a lot of time to search because I had planned to shoot the Cruise Night at Ocean Beach starting at 5:00, and it was already past 3:20 p.m. Heading down a back street to Bank Street (New London has no Main Street) I saw an old building I'd passed a thousand times, but now it caught my eye. Like many older buildings in cities across America, it had been re-purposed, given new life when it was recycled for a different use.
The broad, high steps told me the architect had intended it as a place of worship in the Judeo-Christian mode; the twinned, arched doors are symbolic and date back to at least the Gothic era -- witness any given cathedral in Europe. The Oculus window above the doors was telling me something, but I couldn't make it out, just then. I parked Eos across the street and unloaded my new camera and the tripod I'd built over the past several years. This one, I thought, is a candidate for the Brick and Mortar Pool.
(To be continued...)
Centro de la Comunidad 3
Blinman Street, New London
I was looking for a particular older building. I remembered it on a back street in New London, Connecticut. It faced a narrow street and had a sort of 'Green Man' escutcheon on the second story level; but it had been twenty years since I saw it last, and it could have been gone. I didn't have a lot of time to search because I had planned to shoot the Cruise Night at Ocean Beach starting at 5:00, and it was already past 3:20 p.m. Heading down a back street to Bank Street (New London has no Main Street) I saw an old building I'd passed a thousand times, but now it caught my eye. Like many older buildings in cities across America, it had been re-purposed, given new life when it was recycled for a different use.
The broad, high steps told me the architect had intended it as a place of worship in the Judeo-Christian mode; the twinned, arched doors are symbolic and date back to at least the Gothic era -- witness any given cathedral in Europe. The Oculus window above the doors was telling me something, but I couldn't make it out, just then. I parked Eos across the street and unloaded my new camera and the tripod I'd built over the past several years. This one, I thought, is a candidate for the Brick and Mortar Pool.
(To be continued...)