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You And I Are Interested In Some Of The Same Things, Darrow Montgomery...

2:13 PM 4/29/2007

I opened up the Washington City Paper this week to see a familiar looking object in the page 3 photo. Severed electrical cables hanging in a store window. I might not have paid it much attention, except for the street address: Wilson Blvd. I don't have a copy of the paper with me at the moment, so I'll append/edit when I get back home. I didn't see the picture on their website, but there is a photo blog for Darrow Montgomery, so you can see a bunch of his work in one place. He takes pictures for a lot of the feature articles.

This is from about the same spot as the DM photo in the City Paper...

Electrical cable hanging in an empty store window -- Click for Larger Version


And here it is from the opposite side. I was really liking the double-exposure look of the sky in the window reflection masking the shadows of the store...

Electrical cable hanging in an empty store window -- Click for Larger Version

Electrical cable hanging in an empty store window -- Closeup


And, incidentally, I thought about this blog entry on Thursday, but only today did I know to use this long title; did the title condense from the mist of idea into the hard shell of implementation. My work computer's screen saver is set for 'My Pictures Slideshow'. I was sitting at my laptop when I looked over at the pictures flashing by - you see, it's meant to inspire me with serendipitous recall: I use all the photos from my camera (that I've bothered to upload), and among those photos are some shots I took of the time the band 'Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin' played at Olsson's. I have to thank them for the cheekiness of the delivery, even though I wasn't excited about their music...