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Beautiful brownstone townhouses on Union St in Brooklyn.The other shot showed brick townhouses,these are the real deal.
Post number 11, counting down to number 3 of 13 images in the series based on a common inspiration - Life During Wartime by Talking Heads.
The sound of gunfire off in the distance Somewhere in BKLYN.
Washington Park is the name of the street, and it's right across from the very spacious Fort Greene Park where we went for the afternoon Halloween festivities. These beauties are about a hundred years old, have four floors and are worth in the millions of dollars...each floor sometimes a million or more. A lot different than the southern part of New Jersey where I live!
Brownstones in Boston's Back Bay, reflected in the lagoon along the esplanade.
With the Sony, I got a much wider angle than with the iPhone, which is nice for this scene. But I just snapped this one handheld, so it doesn't have the long exposure glassiness of the other shot. Which do you like better?
I also did more editing on the colors on this one, so I might have to further upload a similarly edited version of the iPhone shot for a fair comparison.
These Upper West Side Brownstones, photographed between two opposing brownstones, reminded me of a Magritte painting.
So much interesting architecture in Brooklyn. Who knew? Should have read my history before I hit the streets......this is the look of Brooklyn!
Brownstones in Boston's Back Bay. I'll have to go back here more often to try for different lighting, but even at dusk all the brownstones lined up together look kinda neat.
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Another iPhone shot from Sunday - this one just shot in the built in camera app using HDR, and then edited in Lightroom Mobile.
I love this spot but now I'm kicking myself - I think I messed up the perspective and should have moved a little to the right to get better symmetry. Well, the problem is its not perfectly symmetric here no matter what you do, so its always a little frustrating.
I'll have to go back and try again next time the clouds look good! I'm also happy they finished construction on that building in the middle, it looks much better now.
Boston brownstones in the Back Bay, shot with Sony a6000 and 55-210mm lens, from the Prudential Skywalk
I was working on this project and I was struck by the fact that this song was initially released on the studio album "Fear of Music in 1979. Now I feel old.
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This manic performance of Life During Wartime was recorded live in 1983 in Los Angeles for the film Stop Making Sense
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Life During Wartime by Talking Heads
Heard of a van that is loaded with weapons,
Packed up and ready to go
Heard of some gravesites, out by the highway,
A place where nobody knows
The sound of gunfire, off in the distance,
I'm getting used to it now
Lived in a brownstone, lived in a ghetto,
I've lived all over this town
This ain't no party, this ain't no disco,
This ain't no fooling around
No time for dancing, or lovey-dovey,
I ain't got time for that now
Transmit the message, to the receiver,
Hope for an answer someday
I got three passports, a couple of visas,
You don't even know my real name
High on a hillside, the trucks are loading,
Everything's ready to roll
I sleep in the daytime, I work in the nighttime,
I might not ever get home
This ain't no party, this ain't no disco,
This ain't no fooling around
This ain't no Mudd Club, or C. B. G. B.,
I ain't got time for that now
Heard about Houston? Heard about Detroit?
Heard about Pittsburgh, P. A.?
You oughta know not to stand by the window
Somebody see you up there
I got some groceries, some peanut butter,
To last a couple of days
But I ain't got no speakers, ain't got no headphones,
Ain't got no records to play
Why stay in college? Why go to night school?
Gonna be different this time
Can't write a letter, can't send no postcard,
I ain't got time for that now
Trouble in transit, got through the roadblock,
We blended in with the crowd
We got computers, we're tapping phone lines,
I know that that ain't allowed
We dress like students, we dress like housewives,
Or in a suit and a tie
I changed my hairstyle, so many times now,
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I don't know what I look like!
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You make me shiver, I feel so tender,
We make a pretty good team
Don't get exhausted, I'll do some driving,
You ought to get you some sleep
Burned all my notebooks, what good are notebooks?
They won't help me survive
My chest is aching, burns like a furnace,
The burning keeps me alive . . .
Taken
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Today was the final post in this series. I could have easily made 15 or 20 images, but I like the number 13. Now that they are all posted, you could run the slide show function from my photostream page as the music plays.
Same street as the previous shot with the flowers. No colourful flower displays here, no children's boots made into flower pots.. nothing interesting :( Just some houses - and I find this interesting enough to snap a shot?! Am I a weirdo or what??
Not just take a shot but even process it twice, one for BW - who does this? :(
A glimpse at a street full of the iconic Harlem brownstones of New York.
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