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Today, pictures from valued commenter J R in WV.
Last year we visited Colorado to attend our old friends’ 40th wedding anniversary. These are the folks we have traveled with some, Italy, Whales, etc. We were involved with their meeting those yea long years ago in our hometown.
This is a set of street and building photos around the Brown Palace Hotel, where we stayed for a few days before proceeding to the site of the celebration. As much to test the new Tool as anything else, but there are some cute things as well.
Taken on 2017-09-11 00:00:00
16th Street Pedestrial Mall
This caught my eye. Either the buildings are crooked, or the support column for the suspension bridge is not straight.
Who does that????
f/4.0 for 1/1600 sec. at 25mm Panasonic DMC-FZ1000
Taken on 2017-09-11 00:00:00
16th Street Pedestrial Mall, Denver
It is what it is, Flying Spaghetti Monster present in all his neon Glory on the 16th Street Pedestrian Mall, Denver CO. 420 in the afternoon? Nope, there it was, we had lunch inside, it was good.
f/3.8 for 1/800 sec at 88mm
Taken on 2017-09-11 00:00:00
Parking Deck across the street from the Brown Palace Hotel
I saw several photo shoots on the roof of this parking deck across the street, and decided to photograph the photography. There was a film about a photographer finding a photograph he took with dangerous information way in the background, back in the 1960s…Blow Up, perhaps? This isn’t like that, but it is in the same metaphysical metadata category in a way. Yes, 420. Colorado is a wonderful place!
f/4.0 for 1/100 sec. at 255 mm.
Taken on 2017-09-11 00:00:00
Across the street from the Brown Palace
This is a former mansion built in 1880, now a private art museum.
From our hotel room on the 8th floor the copper roof was a riveting sight to see, a beautiful job on an impossible-looking roof structure.
Taken on 2017-09-11 00:00:00
Union Station, Denver, Colorado
This was taken from a parking deck near the 16th Street Pedestrian Mall, before we realized how close it was to the Hotel. There’s a sprinkler park with kids playing in the water in the left of the photo, and multiple construction cranes in the sky background – I hope they are closer to vertical than the suspension bridge nearby.
f/3.2 for 1/1600 sec at 26mm
Thank you so much J R in WV, do send us more when you can.
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J R in WV
Whoa… first? Really!!
So — No one is looking at the harmless recreation… they’re all studying the reactionary revolution in our polity ? !!!
Really?
JPL
@J R in WV: The pictures are interesting, but the one that grabbed my attention was the Blue Sushi grill one. It’s kinda scary.
Now back to preparing for the hearings.
waratah
@J R in WV: thank you I enjoyed looking st your photos. I have been to Colorado often but not seen downtown. I love the mansion and Union Station.
Wag
Nice photos of my hometown! The mansion across from the Brown Palace was originally a house of ill repute. There was a tunnel under the street so that guests from the hotel could easily enter without going outside.
Mr. Prosser
That’s one dangerous looking pedestrian mall in the first pic, Denverites must be pretty brave.
Wag
@Mr. Prosser:
The 16th Mall ends immediately behind the photographer.
But yes, we are a brave lot.
J R in WV
@Mr. Prosser:
It seemed pretty safe and popular to us, and runs for quite a ways behind the photographer, actually. There are free buses to step on and off running on 16th street, but no auto traffic at all. IIRC there was a light rail line crossing 16th street at one point, but that could be me confused about a new place.
I’ll be sending in more pics from Colorado, in the hotel, at the museum, and in the foothills of the Front Range.
meander
The photo of the photographer at work reminds me of similar photos I took from one of the bridges over the Los Angeles River, looking over a run down parking lot with fancy cars and a few people milling about. At that time I also thought that there were multiple TV shows or movies with the subject of “photographer accidentally captures crime in action, is tracked down by the criminals.”
I can’t think of which films used that plot line, but one TV episode I recall is “Mr. Monk and the Lottery,” the one where Natalie becomes the number picker and announcer for the lottery. One of the characters happened to capture someone sitting together with a known criminal, and it ties them together. I’m sure that Monk has one or two other episodes using this plot line, as it’s a good one. The first shot is photos hanging in the dark room, lit by the eerie red light. The camera zooms into the middle photo, which shows a man with a gun shooting someone. Car licenses are legible. And so on.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Or it could just be lens distortion, pretty common at wider angles. Photos bring back memories, the Brown Palace is a nice hotel.
Major Major Major Major
@?BillinGlendaleCA: no, it’s one of those weird bridges that are like that.
Denver has changed so much since I was a kid there!