Many U.S. communities advertise their special qualities via artwork on tall water towers. This one, locally known as “the Gaffney Peachoid” in Gaffney, South Carolina, touts the area’s tasty peaches. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2017 Oct. 28. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.46659 Water towers dot the landscape, almost always the tallest structure in the nearby area. When taking long road trips, they catch my eye, especially ones where the tower has been painted to reflect something about the region or when the tower itself is an unusual shape. For example, the tower at right, in Gaffney, South Carolina, proudly touts the area’s peach production with this 130 foot tall tower shaped and painted to resemble a delicious peach! As always, my visual interests…
Morgonsol i Malmö
Så skönt med ljus när man åker till jobbet. Fortfarande lite kyligt på morgonen men underbart med tvåsiffrig temperatur senare på dagen.
Idag kom jag fram, i tid
Idag kom jag fram i tid med Skånetrafiken. Värre var det igår morse då bussen packade ihop på Almgården i Malmö. Alla passagerare fick snällt stiga av och vänta in nästa buss. Inte den bästa starten på veckan.
Reflections of Dorothea Lange
Each month, I gather images from the holdings of the Prints & Photographs Division for a Flickr album. The albums have a theme, the most recent one being Women Photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information (FSA/OWI). It features the work of Esther Bubley, Marjory Collins, Dorothea Lange, And Marion Post Wolcott. As I was looking through photos in the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) taken by Dorothea Lange, I spotted a photo, which at thumbnail size on my laptop, showed a car’s hubcap. When I enlarged the image, I got very excited when I saw reflections both on the car’s fender and in the hubcap! Untitled photo, possibly related to: Close-up view of abandoned dry land…