germanartist

Beautiful photos of the sleepy town of Niles. I didn't know it existed before you showed it to us here. It's like another world. I especially love the photo No 10, with its two different shades of green, a bright blue sky, shining like jewels in a superb composition of rust and red and brown. The white window frame corresponds beautifully with the white cloud. Lovely!

I love those old concrete banisters and walls from the 1920s, when architects and artisans were still thinking of the people who would actually use and look at these every day. Although they're just concrete, they're built with love, yoiu know, they could have just put a cheapo concrete wll there. Also, in San Francisco neighborhoods that were developed in the 1920s, you often see concrete retaining walls and staircases with attractive decorative lines, sometimes with concrete benches set into the walls, so a person could take a rest while climbing the steep stairs (as in Sanchez Steps). I just love those little details.

That's one of your most beautiful, Zahc! It's almost as if the birds were standing on the surface of a lake, strewn with pieces of ice, and the reflections of the birds are not on the surface, but strange creatures hovering in the water, under the surface, below each bird...