Little Boxes, University Mound, San Francisco, CA, 2024.
All the pixels, made of ticky-tacky, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54062971395
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Captured with the Rodenstock 138mm/6.5 HR Digaron-SW lens (@ f/7.1), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50, 1/125 sec), Cambo WRS 1250 camera. Stitched panorama of two images, shifted left and right +/- about 18mm.
This view reminded me of Malvina Reynolds’s famous 1962 song (though she was inspired by nearby Daly City). If you look closely, the houses don’t quite “all look just the same”, but somehow, viewed on the hillside, there’s more uniformity than there is up close.
This is an image that works best at the highest resolution. The Rodenstock 138mm lens has extraordinary edge-to-edge sharpness and a general lack of distortion that makes it especially well suited to wide stitched panoramas like this one.
The effect is sort like Where’s Waldo; the whole is shown mainly to invite you into the details.
Anyone else hear this song for the first time from Weeds?
@mattblaze@federate.social I sing that to myself every time I take BART from the airport
@mattblaze@federate.social Little Boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same.
How stable are those hillsides?
@resuna@ohai.social Those are pretty gentle hills, not like the oceanside cliffs that erode out from under you.
@mattblaze@federate.social @resuna@ohai.social and many of them are bedrock. The scary places to be are the Marina, eastern downtown, and Mission Bay. Those areas get liquefaction in earthquakes.
This is good.
