• Cityscapes/Urban

    Telephone Pole Revisited

    October 8, 2011
    Telephone Pole

    It is a cold and wet Saturday morning. By wet I mean it is a mix or rain, sleet and now snow. The rain started around 3:00 this morning and is expected to last most of the day. And, by cold I mean 36 degrees. This is the transition time between Fall and Winter. I sipping on a hot chocolate at one my local coffee hangouts, watching the moisture and gray sky.

    This past week I had a short overnight in Dallas that did allow for a couple hours to walk around the hotel in the morning before our flight time. I headed to this telephone pole just to see what other images I could come up. I’ve posted two other images from this same telephone pole, here and here.

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  • Cityscapes/Urban

    Yes, this telephone pole…

    October 23, 2009
    Leaning Telephone Pole
    Leaning Telephone Pole

    ..  does lean to the left? Who noticed it?

    I was a visitor to this neighborhood when I saw this scene and the first thing I noticed was the lean of the pole. Heavy telephone lines pull on the pole unceasingly. However, I wonder, if you live near this telephone pole or drive by every day to work, would you  notice it leans? All of us can admit we daily over look the common everyday scenes. Just a question.

    This also reminds me of a tendency I have to tilt my horizons. Not sure why I do it but a fellow photographer picked up on that a few years back. I still struggle with it every once in a while. I have the grid patterns turned on in my view finder to help.  Following the same question as in yesterdays post, do you think therapy would help?

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