Quite a few people have commented over time about my photography and the pictures I use in the ‘logo’ space at the top of the page. So with that in mind I thought I’d take a moment to share with you the full size versions of the pictures I’ve recently used in the ‘logo’ space, and tell you where they are from and all that stuff.
The picture above was taken on the 99 from Fresno, California, to San Francisco a couple of summers ago. We rented a car and headed to ‘Frisco’ with no particular plan and just had a really mellow day driving around listening to ‘Redemption’s Son’ by Joseph Arthur and stopping by places that looked interesting. It’s become one of my favorite pictures and is typical of my very un-pro ‘point and click’ style.
This picture was taken last year in Fresno while I walked to ‘The Revue’ cafe in the Tower District one typically hot afternoon. The scene just appealed to me, the lines, the abundance of the color blue and the oddly abandoned bit of living room furniture.
I can’t tell you exactly where these pictures were taken, but we’ve all seen a similar thing ourselves at least once right? The view of fluffy clouds out of a plane window is probably over Northern Canada flying to or from the States. The blurred car on a highway looks to me like it would be a UK highway, taken while I was driving – what a mad man!
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More pictures by me : Point & Click America
Wrote the following comment on Mar 16, 2005 at 6:34 am
The one of the airplane reminds me of a nightmare I had last night about flying….scary.
Wrote the following comment on Mar 16, 2005 at 7:44 am
Your pictures are often so colourful and beautiful Simon. I would never even think to take the pictures you often do. Like the second one here, I’d just walk on past that, I wouldn’t see a picture at all. Your pictures look like the ones you see in those expensive arty magazines :-)
Wrote the following comment on Mar 16, 2005 at 8:16 am
if these were the only pics i’d ever seen from you, i’d say you have a very simple, uncluttered sense of composition and an excellent eye for color.
you should share more from fresno and san francisco…i lived and worked in the Bay Area for a few years, and i KNOW you had a plethora of wonderful subject matter to work with while there…
take care.
Wrote the following comment on Mar 16, 2005 at 11:02 am
*laughing* I appreciate your honesty and no, it doesn’t sound shallow.
Wrote the following comment on Mar 16, 2005 at 12:15 pm
I especially like Abandoned Furniture and am in complete awe over how clean the side-view mirror is on your car in Objects in Mirror.
Wrote the following comment on Mar 16, 2005 at 7:15 pm
:)
Wrote the following comment on Mar 16, 2005 at 7:18 pm
thank you for the comment! you sooo made me laugh!
Wrote the following comment on Mar 16, 2005 at 8:46 pm
Simon.. good answer about how you know the folks I know. Interesting how life works, eh? A few critical connections opened up a number of other connections. If those few connections had been absent.. how different would life be? maybe a lot, maybe not much.I just read that you are working from a Mac.. I am currently typing on an iMac G4 myself. That equates to automatic kinship in this part of the world. I think I will snag your fresno image and try it out for my “‘ desktop picture ‘”. Peace.
Wrote the following comment on Mar 16, 2005 at 9:33 pm
I love the composition of the abandoned furniture photo. It reminds me of the movie Punch Drunk Love.
Wrote the following comment on Mar 17, 2005 at 2:32 am
I can feel your pain. I thought I would be a different country, but I’m not. I wanted to be Scotland.