my glass i saw: Palm Avenue, Early Morning

[Brian Moore]

This is Palm Avenue in Huntington Beach, California. It's aptly named.

I took this shot about 6am one morning with my Holga 120N and Kodak Tri-X film. I developed the film in Rodinal.

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Now that Brian, is top notch!!! Like it very much! the trees look like the either had a good sense of growth and heading to the sun, or they've had a right battering over the years

 

[Brian Moore]

Thanks a lot, Dan. I think it's the prevailing wind that bends the palm trees permanently over time. And yes, they've suffered their fair share of breezy days.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Great shot... perfect Holga material!
How do you find it as a camera? Ive got one knocking about the place .. i dont think i have put a film through it yet!

 

[Paul Lange]

A very arresting image and it seems to be paradoxically somewhere between sinister and peaceful.

 

[Brian Moore]

How do you find it as a camera?

I love mine. Actually I have two. I don't shoot with them all that often, but I find the images interesting. At the moment I prefer shooting color through the Holgas. Ektar and Portra 400 bith turn out good vivid color and the slight distortion from the plastic lens is appealing. Thanks Hamish.

A very arresting image and it seems to be paradoxically somewhere between sinister and peaceful.

Thanks, Paul. I can attest that in real life it was more peaceful than sinister that morning. Thanks again.

 

[Darren Bradley]

Classic SoCal!

 

[Brian Moore]

Absolutely right, Darren!

 

[Hamish Gill]

What possible reason do those trees have for growing so tall??

 

[Brian Moore]

They do so to protect their coconuts, Hamish.

 

[Hamish Gill]

so their coconuts have more chance of killing the people who's head they land on more like ... malign ******* trees

 

[Darren Bradley]

Because that's where the sun is!

Despite appearances, Southern Cal is actually too cold for coconut palms. These are king palms or fan palms, I think.

 

[Brian Moore]

Southern Cal is actually too cold for coconut palms.

That explains the conspicuous absence of coconuts from Southern California palm trees. Thanks Darren!

 

[Pete Askew]

What a super shot Brian. It has the look of a still from a film or maybe a frame from a news report of the hurricane just hitting down. You can almost hear the first spots of rain hitting the windshield. Fabulous!

 

[Brian Moore]

Thanks a lot, Pete. It was one of those spur of the moment things. Driving along, glanced down that road, liked the look of the palms and the mist in the distance, stopped car, snapped photo. It was morning mist only, as it's very close to the ocean, and it burned off soon enough to reveal a typically sunny California day. Every picture tells a story, but it's not always the real story. Anyway,...thanks again Pete.