November 11
Old Route 66 is the spine of town, traversing the length from east to west. Along the way, in addition to Bobby’s Trading Post (above), you can see a graffiti swimming pool, a dark and vacant highway, this abandoned liquor store, and a vacant gas station.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 8.31.12
Posted on November 11, 2012, in architecture, Photography and tagged 365 photo project, black and white photography, haiku, laurie jameson, melinda green harvey, new mexico, one day one image, photo a day, photography, santa rosa, santa rosa new mexico. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.
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Starburst of streetlight
shadowed benches, lonely store
no more travelers.
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This is just like a dolls house (or store I guess). Something very strange about the apparent scale but I can’t tell what makes it so. I think maybe the size and shape of the windows. Or maybe the upper front that looks a bit like a sloping roof.
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I’ve been thinking about your comment re. the scale of this building, and can’t really decide what it is that makes it look strange. It looks fine to me, but of course I stood in front of the place and took the photograph! Maybe it is because the top of the building is in shadow (because it DOES tilt back a bit from the plane of the building), so it’s got a bit of tilt-shift effect going on?
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I have had another look, and it still has a diminutive scale to me. Maybe its because I live in a house full of 6″ dolls? It is interesting that the front does tilt back, it gives it a curved look at the top. The upper darkness and rough finish might contribute. But mostly I think it is something to do with the proportions of the window area vs. the rest of the front, including the light above the door. It leaves an impression that the entry way goes all the way up to the stucco. And the tables in front look like benches for sitting on, which also adjusts the scale a lot if you think of them that way. The apparent scale is hard to decipher and explain, but it does not change for me now that I am having a second look. I guess you will never see what I am seeing, but that is just the way it is. You can’t trust a temperate rainforest dweller to see the desert properly:)
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I think it’s the benches/tables – if you look at them at think they are benches, your mind scales the building one way, but if you think they are tables, it scales it another way.
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