My Neighborhood

I've taken to carrying my small camera when I can. The iPhone's ok, but not nearly so flexible, so if I'm not feeling already-too-encumbered I put it in my purse.

Last weekend through a curious chain of coincidences I got to meet a world famous photographer, Fred Herzog.

Fred is a big story-teller, & George a very willing listener.

His opening is next weekend at the Equinox Gallery, so he is signing the to-be-framed photos.

I was quite taken with his photos. I have an affinity for doing that kind of photography myself.

So here is a small crop of my photos in response to seeing his work.

Some were taken recently & some taken ages ago.

Most are from my neighborhood.

   Isn't it a 5 or IS it?

                                            The space inside is being renovated.

A surprising sitting room: strangely inmate & intentional.

A foggy day...last foggy week...

...and below views from the Granville Street Bridge....The men are working on the up-grade of the bridge.

....& back to the bridge...

That's it for now.

SO Maui

So George & I went to Maui for 2 weeks.

One of my photo files is called So Maui. These are the things I see that are not 'touristic', not 'brochurable', & are somewhat quirky or super-unordinary.

I love this file.
It has to do partly with the detritus of our industrialized world. It has partly to do with decay & the fact that shit happens.

So here's some of it in no particular order.

                     Window in Haiku, now taken over by a functional business.

                                         Old bottles on a wall. Rainwater incidental.

 Men hanging out at the 'swap' meet where money is swapped for goods!

                         Overloading of truck after palm pruning. Fronds are heavy.

On the north end of the island, in isolated place. Pono is a graffiti added to the car. It means "shame": shame on the person who ditched a car there.

                                      Sugar cane field burn.

 There are bazillion houses like this.

                                         Decaying vegetation is everywhere & many fruit flies.

                                             Lots of great clotheslines.

                                                     Quirky sign on truck.

Another "Pono" &  Closed banana-bread concession north end of the island.

                             Signs quite near the Maui prison....poignant...

                                                    A roadside shrine

A sugar mill building.   

                                                                Part of the sugar mill.

                                                         Poinsettia bushes! 

One of hundreds of water tanks. They all seem to have this 'look'.

 Grave for a Lindberg's pet monkey, in the graveyard where Lindberg is buried.

         ....on the road to Hana...This small village has two churches & poi fields.

Many years ago off of Lahina a boat went down and a large shipment of marbles was lost. The ones above were at the swap meet. These below have been 'sanded' by the sea & were in that shipment.

At our favorite Garden Cafe in the business section of Kahalui. 

                                        The road workers after 36" of rain (on Kaui).

                            With that much rain a lot of soil went into the ocean.

                                                Wonderful color combinations.....

                                        Super many-times-eroded ironwood tree.

                                                            That's it for now.