Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Interesting set, Richard. Thanks for sharing. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Man" <richard at imagecraft.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 3:32 AM Subject: [Leica] Our Fair City - Palo Alto > (Drat, something wrong with my new domain www.richardmanphoto.com so this > will be an inline post!) > > I needed to test out some film processing procedures, so I took the bike > out > and rode out with the XPan. Nothing special here, but may be give you a > sense of life in our fair city. > > The unemployment rate in California is well over 12%, but you wouldn't > know > it in Palo Alto. This new house is designed by an architect, being built > on > a "large" (quarter acre?) lot. Most houses that come to the market are > sold > within a few short weeks. Facebook/Google effect. > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-1.jpg > > The following non-descript photos of a blocked off temporary fence is the > new home of Larry Page. We rode by it over the Summer and we were aghast > at > how big the property is. It's about half a city block long! We didn't know > it's Larry Page's house of course, but we did figure that it must be some > rich CEO or something. > > Then the day afterward, the local newspaper said his new neighbors > complained that the construction was pumping out a lot of ground water > with > an accompanying photo. > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-2.jpg > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-3.jpg > > A basker and someone taking a nap: > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-4.jpg > > Border declared bankruptcy and closed all stores. The Palo Alto location > was > in an old theater that probably dated from early 1900s. The restaurant > next > to it, Hans Bistro, has my images on their wall since 2009. > > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-5.jpg > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-6.jpg > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-7.jpg > > The other old theater, is still functional! Thanks to David Packard (the > son > of the HP founder). > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-8.jpg > > And we even have a local bookstore! Apparently since 1932 > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-9.jpg > > As you may have seen from Herb's photos, our city likes to spend money > on... > arts. There is now an art building made with glass bottles of different > sizes right in front of the City Hall: > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-10.jpg > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-11.jpg > > The local fire department must also be doing some sort of employee > appreciation day or something: > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-12.jpg > http://5pmlight.com/PICS/PA-walk-2011/pab-13.jpg > > With that, my roll of film was finished, and time to go home. > -- > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> > // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all > previous > replies in your msgs. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >