Lower Pandora
A couple of weeks ago I went out in the evening to a bar to listen to a band that my son plays in. Parking in that part of town, on a Friday evening, can be pretty tricky so I took the first spot I saw a couple of blocks away. I had my camera with me, and the sun was setting, so I snapped a few shots on the way – the light was nice.
I have shown photos from here before, a long time ago, and from the other side of the street. The derelict façade of a burned-out building photographed in Pandora Street Neglect is now plastered onto the front of a nearly completed new building, which is what the scaffolding is all about in my top shot. Soon enough it will be the decorative icing on the front of a modern concrete structure. I hope the rest of the building matches the area well enough.
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Canon 5Dii, Canon 50mm/f1.4 lens, ISO 100, f2.2, 1/400th to 1/5000th second
burnt embers 
excellent photographs
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Nice time of the night.
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I agree. Sun very nearly down, as can be seen from the shadows of the banners.
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Yes it is part of the equation of beauty 😉
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Superb.
David.
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Thanks!
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Neat photos Ehpem!
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Thanks David, glad you like them!
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The netting in the top part of the first photo threw me off a bit. I stared at it for a while before I discovered it was the netting, slightly out of focus. It gives the photos a surreal look and I like that. Everything looks so clean and well kept up. A nice place to visit (or work, in your son’s case).
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Hi Ken. That netting was what caught my eye. It is pretty brightly coloured but works better in black and white. This part of town is pretty nice, it is the edge of the tourist district and extra care is taken to keep it spiffy. This explains the Cuban cigar store which just for those who can’t live without sticking a fumidor in their face and driving off all of us pests (the kind that need fresh air to live) on light-up. I have colleagues with offices in one of these very buildings. Sounds like a nice place to work – the windows open, for instance.
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You’ve probably anticipated that I will be very fond of the black sky in the last shot….
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Hi Melinda, you were in my mind as I moved sliders around while processing that image.
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Yikes! Were you scared, with me in your mind?
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It gave me a run down, corrugated feeling. Kind of abandoned, decrepit, dark skied and peeling paint-ish, with acres of textured foreground, if that is a feeling. But not scared.
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I think we need to look those symptoms up in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It sounds a little worrisome……
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I already did the research. Turns out its a panhandle condition.
Texas Panhandle, not Alaskan, not kitchenware. Very regional.
Can sometimes be transmitted by the internet, but does not flourish in wet cool climates.
I should be fine.
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(I should have known that you would have already researched this…!)
Is there any chance of a flare-up if you were, for some reason, to visit the Texas Panhandle?
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There is. I am practising flare control (see tomorrow’s post for an example). I should be OK, if for some reason I found myself in Texas.
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Beer. Drinking a good Texas beer or Texas vodka would probably be a good idea, if you’re going to be here. It might not help with the medical concerns, but at least you wouldn’t care about the medical stuff so much. If you had enough beer. Or vodka.
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With enough beer, I might develop real flair.
I thought it was a universal immunising agent as well.
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Beer has a lot of fine properties, as you’ve noted. Just let me know when you plan to be in Texas, and I will be sure to have plenty beer on hand.
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