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Foreground, Clockwise from top: Paula, Andrew, Aunt Elaine, Laton, Pat, Duane. Background, from left: Jen, Aunt Millie, and Aunt Adeline
A pigeon admires this work by Lawrence Weiner, reminiscient perhaps of the old painted advertisements seen still on many buildings in Frome. Part of Intervention/Decoration - New contemporary art exhibition commissioned by Foreground.
My attempting at getting a good foreground/background effect. I was going to get a better one, but after this photo, the batteries in the camera decided to die (that's what I get for not recharging them within the last 10 days). This one wasn't that bad, but I was hoping for better. (Due to the batteries being dead and the fact that they take several hours to recharge and people kept on unplugging them, I couldn't take any photos the next day.)
(Foreground: Adam Curtis), ??, Mark Hays, Dave Taylor, Ricky Hamada, Alex Barin, Joe Chang, Art Rozier
Plumed celosia blooms in the foreground at this little park named for Philip Schuyler Finn, son of the beloved "Battery Dan" Finn. On a nearby sign, the Parks Department relates some colorful tales from the life of Finn the Elder:
He became a city magistrate and police judge in 1904, dispensing advice rather than harsh sentences. Admonitions like "Don’t try to compel a girl to love you if she prefers someone else. Get another to take her place," to two youths fighting over a girl, or "Don’t wreck or sell your body and soul for diamonds and automobiles," to a prostitute endeared him to New Yorkers across the city. No incident caused more amusement than Finn’s encounter with three bulldogs on his way to a court session in the Bronx. Under attack, he climbed a lamppost and yelled for help. Local papers carried the story and New York loved it.
The NY Times's obituary for Battery Dan contains an expanded version of the don't-fight-over-a-girl advice:
"You are both as foolish as the fellows who years ago fought over a girl named Helen of Troy. The one who got her had nothing but trouble. Don’t try to compel a girl to love you if she prefers some one else. Get another to take her place."
Was vacationing in the Berkshires last weekend, in the cold and rain, so I spent some time learning how to actually use my camera. Most of these shots are a result of me practicing with aperture priority.
I've been waiting awhile for something interesting to appear in the foreground for this kind of shot to work.
The constant rain and a severe lack of anything new to post had me searching through my archives. A pretty ordinary sunset but I liked the texture of those ripples.