Critique Welcomed Our Library (With Ducks)

[Brian Moore]

Our library (Huntington Beach Public Library) has the distinction of having been designed by the Neutra architectural firm. Richard Neutra is one of the giants of the modern architectural movement here in the US. He actually died before the building was built but his sone Dion completed it. I think it was finished around 1972 or '78 or so.

(I don't know anything about the history of the ducks.)

Minox 35GT (ex-Hamish) and expired Fuji 200 film.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Nice setting, Brian, and good to have the ducks looking out at the landscape along with us. Ducks have an amazing history. Rumour has it Virginia Woolf was a duck. When you look at her, it makes you wonder.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

A nice cosy film image I can relate to.

 

[John Allen]

I've seen several images of that building, but none from this perspective. Well done. Well done, except for the bit about the ducks. There are no ducks in the image. Those are geese. Canada geese to be more specific.

 

[John Holland]

Thanks, John. I was going to call a fowl on the duck id as well

 

[Brian Moore]

Nice setting, Brian, and good to have the ducks looking out at the landscape along with us. Ducks have an amazing history. Rumour has it Virginia Woolf was a duck. When you look at her, it makes you wonder.

Those are geese Rob. Canada geese, eh?

A nice cosy film image I can relate to.

Thank you Ivar.

I've seen several images of that building, but none from this perspective. Well done. Well done, except for the bit about the ducks. There are no ducks in the image. Those are geese. Canada geese to be more specific.

Thanks John. (And what a good eye for detail you have.)

Thanks, John. I was going to call a fowl on the duck id as well

Horsefeathers!

 

[John Holland]

Those are geese Rob. Canada geese, eh?
Horsefeathers!

That would be a Pegasus

 

[Rob MacKillop]

That would be a Pegasus

As in...

 

[Aaron J. Heiner]

Are those ducks or loons? The necks look really long for a duck? I see a few posts calling them geese, but the patterns don't look right. At least not like the Canadian geese that overwhelm most ponds and lakes here in DC.

 

[John Allen]

Are those ducks or loons? The necks look really long for a duck? I see a few posts calling them geese, but the patterns don't look right. At least not like the Canadian geese that overwhelm most ponds and lakes here in DC.

They are definitely geese. Their shape is enough to identify them as geese. Until recently, the white chinstraps would have been all I needed to identify them as Canada geese. However, quite recently, they split Canada geese into two distinct species each with their own subspecies.

 

[Pete Askew]

The history of the duck is truly quite sad. Often not recognised for their literary prowess, scientific inventions and great works of art much of their work has been attributed to others (such as, as Rob so rightly points out, Virginia Woolf). Not only that, even their traditional association with the duck pond is being more and more frequently usurped by other water fowl, such as geese.

Oh, and a nice shot of the library. Is there a section on ducks?

 

[Brian Moore]

Thank you Pete. I'm sure the library has a duck section and a woolf section too.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

In the old days, we used to give ducks. But these days, nobody seems to give a duck. And that's not right.

 

[John Allen]

I think we are beating a dead duck.