COLLECTIONS: LAMPPOSTS
There are times when I think my head is in the clouds!
I have this tendency to look up – a lot! Not only as part of my outlook on life, but when I photograph as well. Why always look straight ahead when there is so much to see above? Of course, for me that’s not too hard to do since I am a bit vertically challenged at only 5’2″.
While I look down a lot as well, and photograph much at ground level or laying on the ground, up provides interest and perspective uncommon to everyday life. Up is good.
Today’s images aren’t necessarily a reflection of ‘up’, but they are about things that are above us. I have been gathering an assortment of lampposts . . . and it seemed appropriate to put them into a collection and share. These are a few taken recently.
street lamps at Gelson's Market
from the Calle Reale Marketplace
also from the Calle Reale Marketplace in Goleta
Stearn's Wharf lamppost
from the Santa Barbara Train Station
another view of the Santa Barbara Train Station lamppost
shadows created by the train station lamppost - looking down is good too!
from the Getty Center
a creative capture in San Diego
Why is it that these lampposts capture my attention?
I cannot answer this one precisely – perhaps it is the shape against a deep blue sky, perhaps it is the contrast of shape against solid, perhaps because most of us take these things for granted, perhaps it is because I am a little weird and like taking photographs of the mundane, the overlooked, the everyday life things – I do the same with doors and windows a street numbers; weather vanes, chimneys and steeples; signs, shadows and other sundry architectural details.