This is an appealing gallery of photos. I get the feeling of a lost or abandoned town from them, the lack of people in the photos and the lighting you chose to capture asserts that.
Of the set, my favorite is pic16 ... the brass doors and the road sign. It seems to say more than the others to me. Interesting place ... I'll have to look it up, might be worth a photo expedition or a NorCal PDML gathering ... ? ;-) Godfrey On Sep 29, 2007, at 10:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I took these pictures about 14 months ago. > > Where I live, Contra Costa County, doesn't have much that is old > and funky. > Expect for Port Costa, a tiny town beyond Martinez. At one time it > was a > major port in the California SF Bay Area, now it no longer has a > pier and it's > population is about 100-150 or less, probably the smallest town in > the area. One > of the oldest too -- it only has about three buildings on each > side of the > main street (which is almost unpaved, because it has so many > potholes). There > is one restaurant people go to, but that is about the only surviving > business. > > Its so small one would think it hasn't much to shoot... on the > other hand > it's sort of a surreal little town. > > http://members.aol.com/eactivist/THEATRE/index.html > > Comments welcome. > > These are not my best but I haven't shown any for a while, haven't > shot for > a while, and went through my archives and thought these were > passable. I hope > to get back to Port Costa to try again one of these days. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
