Night Photography by la flaneuse, Bill H
June 4th, 2007 1:12 AMBill wanted to go rubberneck downstairs. We went down to our building's lobby and peered through the curtains at the scene across the street. The doorman said the car turned the corner too fast, crashed into the curb and went up on the sidewalk and back on the curb several times before it landed in its resting place on the sidewalk down the street. Thankfully no one was hurt.
"Take a picture of the car on the sidewalk!" Bill egged me on after the driver was escorted away by the police. He was mad about the crazy driver who could've killed or hurt someone, especially someone walking across the street or on the sidewalk. So I went back upstairs to get my camera to appease him. Then I remembered I could do this task!
Afterwards we walked around a bit. We live in a streetcar-suburban neighborhood, and it's pretty quiet late on a Sunday night. So midnight isn't necessarily the "deepest" of night, but it's certainly no darker around here a few hours later.
I noticed more details at night that I apparently have zoomed past before, like the solar panel on the streetlamps or the old lettering on the traffic signal control box. I caught a whiff of the petunias on the sidewalk and heard the quiet (but bad) music playing outside the barber shop. Too bad there aren't fewer cars here during the day.
Get outta my way!
Ouch
The wheel is back behind the car on the sidewalk.
The circle Sunday night
Usually this fountain in the middle of the parkway's traffic circle is on at night and is really pretty, but tonight for some reason it wasn't going (but cars were, as usual).
Spooky in the shadows
"Is that someone sitting on the bench over there?" I asked Bill when we were across the street from this pocket park. No, it was just this statue in the shadows.
Admiring the pretty colors
This is on a block of shops that I rarely visit during the day, even though they are just on the next street over. Our area is populated by a lot of families, so the shops include a Baskin Robbins, a toy store, a kid's bookstore, and a dime store (newly reopened). This is one of the import shops.
Is the wild thing wondering
why this uglydoll has plastic poking its eyes at night? Or is it some new kind of eyeshade?
Because the toy store says so!!!
Window of the kids' bookstore (not the toy store!)
Import store skeleton
Pinwheel eyes
In the dime store's window
Quiet intersection
Except for the handful of cop cars we saw during our walk. (The district patrol office is further down this street.) During the day, this is almost always busy, and then I hate crossing the streets here because of the number of drivers who don't look.
Xtracycle!
The lone bicyclist we saw after midnight was riding an Xtracycle.
What's that smell?
Oh, it's the petunias on the sidewalk in front of one of the shops.
Hey, is that a solar panel?
I never noticed that before.
Old traffic signals
I never noticed the faintly Art Deco-ish style of the control box of our corner's old traffic signals.
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flat streets.... fountains.... summer........ petunias!
A very pretty set of photographs, well done.
Because you noticed things you never noticed before, you get a vote. It means the task did some good for you. And you literally stopped to smell the flowers.