Name: “Collegetown Autumn Evening”
Subject: This Old House, and a lot of leaves
Medium: Lumix DSC-FZ30K, Leica OC Vario-Elmarit Lens (1:2.8-3.7/7.4-88.8 Asph.)
– Exposure program: Normal
– 1/1.8″CCD
– f/2.8
– ISO 80
– focal length 7.4 mm (35mm equivalent: 35mm)
– Flash: Off
– OIS Mode 2
Date: November 18, 2005
This is primarily an inaugural test shot from a new camera. The general area in which this shot was taken is in such a state that any real beauty is becoming fast extinct, primarily because it is a town that has become rather schizophrenic. It tries hard to maintain a sleepy college town type of appearance, and yet wants badly to reap the benefits of urbanization, urban revitalization, and gentrification. But with creative framing, it’s mostly possible to eek out the last vestiges of organic beauty here, even though heavy construction and ghastly postmodern art is rudely intruding upon the scene.
I might attempt to take more pictures of this area before the place gets “redeveloped,” which I hear is slated to happen soon. It seems like the last time anyone though of taking photos of the place was back in the day, and no one bothered to really revisit the place when the age of color made it big in photography. It would be nice to catpure what’s left in all its beauty before it’s all gone, and battleship-grey highrises take its place.
