Thanks Nadya. David, I think you hit the nail on the head. It's the windowless feature of the house that struck me because the view from there is quite nice. There's actually a reservoir right there behind the house. Who doesn't want a water view these days? But Dogtown is a strange place. Perhaps some things are best left unseen.
Those shadows are so beautiful! I find myself imagining that maybe the builder could have used this windowless facade to keep out the "shouts" of all those virtues carved on the rocks :-)
It's a sad fact of life that I can recite line after line of dialogue from the films "This is Spinal Tap" and "Airplane!". But next to those fabulously funny quotes, my favorite bit of dialogue is from a late 1950's film that I have never seen.
In the film "Funny Face", Audrey Hepburn, as a fashion model, says to Fred Astaire, playing the part of a fashion photographer, "Trees are beautiful. Why don't you photograph trees?"
Astaire responds, "I do what I do for a living. It has to do with supply and demand. You'd be amazed how small the demand is for pictures of trees."
Astaire's quote still rings true today. For me, the supply and demand part involves sitting in front of a computer most days doing post-production and retouching on very hi-res digital photographic files generated by some pretty talented professional photographers.
But in my spare time, I take a lot of photos of trees and such with very low-tech plastic "toy" film cameras, like Holgas and various Diana clones.
And Fred Astaire is correct more than fifty years later.
There still isn't much of a demand for pictures of trees.
Looks like the perspective of a contemplating bird in a tree... very cool!!
ReplyDeleteIt's all good--the siding, the stones, the shadows, the tree bark. And the mystery of why a house would have no windows on one (or more) sides.
ReplyDeleteThanks Nadya.
ReplyDeleteDavid, I think you hit the nail on the head. It's the windowless feature of the house that struck me because the view from there is quite nice.
There's actually a reservoir right there behind the house. Who doesn't want a water view these days? But Dogtown is a strange place. Perhaps some things are best left unseen.
Those shadows are so beautiful! I find myself imagining that maybe the builder could have used this windowless facade to keep out the "shouts" of all those virtues carved on the rocks :-)
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