The Urban Image Thread

[Country Parson]

Reputed to be one of the two largest Home Depots in the world, Union, NJ. (It is said that the other one is in China)



X100 (ISO640)

[Luckypenguin]

A very nice start so far. Thanks BB, Olli, Pennyann and Dan!

[pdh]

I rarely do eye-level "street" because I have a bit of a thing about intrusion (and no I will not get on the couch about this) but I do like the impact of humanity in photographs ... hmm starting not to make sense ... whatever ... really liked Nic's thread(s) on this over at mu-43 and glad he's accepted my nudge to initiate one here .... anyway, looked through my Flickr stream and found less than 1% would fit, but then I suppose I live in a rural environment so perhaps not surprising.
Shall I just STFU and post something? Well yes ... I love this photograph ... the blonde is planned, the blue is serendipitous ... I think it's urban enough ...


crossing girl pz by _loupe, on Flickr

[Will]

Great idea for a thread!

A selection

GRD2

_0013343 by meaning_of_light, on Flickr


R0010313 by meaning_of_light, on Flickr


R0011459b by meaning_of_light, on Flickr


DP1


SDIM2124 by meaning_of_light, on Flickr


SDIM1835 by meaning_of_light, on Flickr

[Penny]

I agree with Will this is a great thread which should (already has) thrown up a lot of variety

[Ray Sachs]

OK, here are a few that have minor elements of "street" but are mostly urban scenery. All X100 within the past few days.

-Ray



I think Don may have done one like the following not too long ago - it looked familiar but I'm not sure. If so, he no doubt found some humanity in the scene...






The prettiest bus shelter I've EVER seen:

[pdh]

there is just something weirdly (and wondefully) "hyperreal" about those GRD shots, will ... I've noticed this clarity and transparency before ... works so with this sort of content ... yum

[Luckypenguin]

Wow, I'm glad we started this thread. Thanks for the suggestion, pdh!

[Ray Sachs]

there is just something weirdly (and wondefully) "hyperreal" about those GRD shots, will ... I've noticed this clarity and transparency before ... works so with this sort of content ... yum

Yeah, those really are quite nice - partly camera and largely photographer, but the IQ is mostly camera and its stunning for such a small sensor. Must be a great match with the lens. Makes me think about selling the LX-5 (it seems to be largely out of a job) and getting one of those. But I'm gonna have to spend some time with the X100 before I go off buying more stuff. I've got the classic 28mm field of view covered eight ways till Sunday (as one might say) and I'm gonna have a tough time justifying another (even to myself). But I'm very impressed with what I've seen from it. Maybe because its such an unknown camera that it only falls into the hands of good photographers and there's very little crap floating around from it?

-Ray

[Djarum]

A few from when I was in Atlanta