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the new weather
Today while sitting in Rittenhouse and meditating on the bizarre weather, I struggled to capture the feeling I was sensing down on paper. The air was warm and the breeze defied a season. Whatever today was, it wasn’t January-December in Philadelphia.
Weather is a powerful force on the psyche and this breeze was particularly strong. My thoughts turned to the images of a photographer I discovered last night. The themes of this photoblog are long exposures on the empty tangled streets of New York City. New York has a lot of motion and energy. Even a shot of an empty street draws in an enormous amount of that energy.
Philadelphia doesn’t usually feel like that. But tonight, something about that aseasonal breeze reminded me of these photos. The weather is warm in an almost anxious way. The oppressive veil that usually hangs over this place, has been briefly and fleetingly lifted. But enough of that, look at these photos:
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