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Contree

Contree

A heavily pollarded tree stands in front of the blue sky broken by one expanding contrail, Golden Gate Park Music Concourse, San Francisco, CA.

Photo notes: This is actually an HDR photo using a high contrast naturalistic filter. Using HDR this way increases detail and clarity without increasing noise.

Enter

Enter

Entrance to the de Young Museum, San Francisco.

Lately I’ve been pushing what HDR photos can look like into unknown (at least to me) surrealist reality but without the usual HDR feel. In this photo I left in some of the HDR processing artifacts. Look for the repeated star on the Macy’s bag.

City of Gold and Lead

City of Gold and Lead by ericwagner
City of Gold and Lead, a photo by ericwagner on Flickr.

With pretty magic rectangles in their tentacles the aliens have arrived with promises of golden fortunes, but only leaden dreams await. In this invasion the assimilation is chosen gladly by those who can afford, and the war of freedom is fought human on human and not with the sky.

San Francisco à la John Christopher and my own imagination.