Certain architectural features seem to characterize various cities. In Europe, from what I’ve seen, these include the materials available locally for construction, the types of roofs, and the color scheme. This view of the Alfama neighborhood of Lisbon is a case in point — with mostly white-walled buildings and red-tiled roofs.
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I know. Laundry hanging above urban homes in foreign cities is more than a bit of a cliche. I’ll try to minimize it, but sometimes I cannot resist. Here it is really more about the wild range of colors in the photograph, from that laundry to the colorful overhead streamers above the lane, and the contrast with the other less-colorful surroundings.
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This seemed to me like a particularly picturesque curve in the Leie River though the old section of Ghent, Belgium. Although the sky suggests partly sunny light, it remained a bit overcast where we were, thus the very soft light in this photograph. This is a busy place, and there were not a lot of opportunities to photograph just one or two people in this scene.
We were only in Ghent briefly — we took a train there from Brussels for the day. We spent the day walking around the center of the city, where there are many old buildings and perhaps one of the greatest concentrations of church spires I have seen. I made the photograph as we walked a bridge connecting the two sides of the river.
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Needless to say (though I am saying it anyway!), for Californians, Chicago around Thanksgiving seems like a very cold place. (I can imagine Chicagoans shaking their heads and muttering, “Come back in January, California boy!”) To be truthful, we had very nice weather for late November: overcast, but daytime temperatures into the 40s and only a little bit of light rain. Yet, this photograph just looks cold to me!
We had been out for a walk and as we passed the entrance to the Art Institute of Chicago, I decided to use that building (on the left) to frame the early evening sky against the skeletal trees, and set against the other buildings along Michigan Avenue.
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