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Looking For Inspiration
 Dick Cheney shot a senior citizen in the face with a shotgun this past weekend and I think that’s just spectacular. I don’t know why this news fills me with glee, but it does. Some things defy explanation. The man will be OK, so don’t call me a heartless bastard either.
Getting on to other things, I’ve been in a creative lull. I’ve just been feeling kind of dull. I took some photos on my walk home this evening, forcing nothing and only taking my camera out when I saw something that really, truly caught my eye. The spark came in the northern entrance to City Hall. At the top of this page is a doctored shot of that space. The rest of these photos are, except for a little cropping on a couple of them, completely untouched. I hope you enjoy them. I enjoyed the effect generated by metering for the darkened corridor, while harshly overexposing the evening light beyond:
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A door and a light:  *
* Dragon:
* Chandelier:
* Wheatpaste at Juniper & Drury:
* Discarded snow-chains in melted snow:
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Best of the Night, Frozen Diner:
* Frozen Diner 2:
* And finally… this photo will drive me crazy for a while. I was a block and a half from home, I had almost put my camera away, but didn’t. A shadow caught my eye and I glanced up towards a window across the street. Perfectly framed there was a man, head tilted and hands raised in the act of lighting a cigarette. For a second, I forgot I had my camera. A second later, I raised it and hit the shutter, not having enough time to think or care about how I was metered. I didn’t catch the classic noir shot of a silhouetted man lighting a cigarette within the frame of a window; but it’s still pretty decent:
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