brooklyn bridge
Fine Art Photography
private altar, civita di bagnoregio
richard pelletier https://www.snappysan.com
Civita di Bagnoregio is a hilltown about an hour north of Rome. So beautiful, it’s sacred. Think of a hilltown as a cake that rises from the valley floor. The town sits on top and there are walking paths (now you’re walking along the outside surface of the cake) that wind all the way around and down to the valley floor. On the trail was this private altar which is a kind of cave, carved from the hillside. I shot this from behind a locked steel gate.
“You may have the universe if I may have Italy.” – Verdi
Chinatown
doggie diner
richard pelletier https://www.snappysan.com
Doggie Diner Designer Died
Harold Bachman, 84, the advertising artist who dreamed up the Doggie Diner heads, died Oct. 1st in Santa Rosa, Ca. In 1965, Bachman sketched the concept for the happy, rotating dachsund head to promote a restaurant, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The roadside icon, which once flourished in the Bay Area and was immortalized in Zippy the Pinhead comic strips, today can only be seen in one public place. In January 2005, a restored Doggie Diner head was added to the median strip of Sloat Boulevard near Ocean Beach in San Francisco. [10/12/2005 roadsideamerica.com]
the nymph of balch pond
I have meant what I have done. Or – I have often meant what I have done. Or – I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or – I have tried to mean what I was doing. (Jasper Johns) I confess here and now – when I was bobbing around in a canoe back in the summer of 1998, circling my prey again and again, I didn’t know that this was what I meant until today, October 19, 2010.
the anderson valley
I don’t know what it is, but the Anderson Valley, which lies north of San Francisco, and about an hour from the Pacific, is some sort of zone of pure magic and incomparable beauty. Whenever I am there, I start to vibrate from the intense and intimate beauty of the place. In the early 80’s I made a series of photographs of a few vineyards and wineries. Memory is fickle; I can’t pinpoint this location.