City Takes # 2 -Lines and Rhythm

                                    

                        San Francisco has an elegance.

Even as the city morphs and changes, there is a fusion of linear forces that vivifies.

We mourn the loss of the old places, and funky personality.

Economics, largely driven by tech, disrupts, it is true.

        

     As in any city with real imagination, the architecture is a kind of code; who we have been, and who we are becoming. 

    It is not about architecture only though, at least to those of us with cameras. It is also how it all comes together; angles, spaces and the juxtaposition of style and line.

        

    This post tries to celebrate those LINES AND RHYTHM.

    

Old and new, edged and rounded, light and space

creating feel and flow.

 

After a year and half of pandemic restrictions, we were excited just to see The City.

     As a kid, when westerns were the fare on television, my midwestern sense of the West was Dodge City, Tombstone, Boot Hill and such, until Have Gun Will Travel changed all that. 

    Paladin, a sophisticated well tailored bon vivant, graduate of West Point, a Chinese martial arts specialist, president of the San Francisco Stock Exchange Club, chess player, and swordsman made his home a city that appeared as exotic as the problem solving hero. No Roy Rogers or Marshall Dillon, he.

     In 1957 that was a mind blowing concept-a gentleman gun fighter private eye who quoted literature. 

                "Wire Paladin San Francisco."

    After that the old west was, old and primitive, but San Francisco locked in my mind as, exotic, unique, a place where Asian and Western culture mixed and in a place that looked unlike anywhere else.

        There is something else in this city that deserves a look,

Urban Alchemy. That is coming in a future post.

     See you down the trail.

City Takes-Emotion and Vibe

 

        San Francisco is full of texture and emotion. This post tries to capture some of that vibe in this age of pandemic.

        Not since our pre pandemic visit to Dublin, Edinburgh and Glasgow have we been in a city. So here from a recent trip is COLOR AND NUANCE, the first post of an urban celebration of "The City."

        I hope you'll give yourself a couple of minutes to look at these frames, their color and detail, the larger the screen the better. 

        Taken in total or block by block San Francisco is a artful, arty and visually entertaining.

     

    

       

        I'm always fascinated by how people interact in public spaces. These shots capture the social distancing with dashes of California color and irony.  Create your own dialogue for the couples.

        San Francisco has stunning structure and architectural rhythm. That is coming in a future post. 

        Look around where you live and notice what you see that others may not.

     See you down the trail.