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Empty playground – States Street

William Poole — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:06:00 +0000

There is something melancholy about an empty playground. This one is tucked into the eastern, sheltered side of Corona Heights Park. The sand play surface and straight-forward steel play structures are considered old fashioned and even dangerous these days, but they create a lovely subdued color palette that seems to fit the mood of the image. Photographed at dusk.

Nature outside the window

William Poole — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:39:00 +0000

For fifteen years after we came to San Francisco, we lived in an apartment with a sliding glass door opening from the living room onto a fire escape and large evergreen tree. Ours was a redwood, this is a pine. Still, this scene struck a chord with me. Image made on States Street, one of the many routes I take from my home took the Castro District.