It’s overcast … but with intermittent sunset-orange tints that turn it occasional shades of burning silver.
Like someone splashed thin veneers of tapered fire across a fading, opal-toned tombstone at dusk.
Tag Archives: Roanoke
VADER’S ON THAT SHIP. I CAN FEEL IT.
Anyone ever notice that the top of the Taubman Museum of Art looks like a lot like an imperial star cruiser?
Looking north to downtown Roanoke, VA, from South Jefferson Street, October 2021
I just like how all those boxlike squares juxtapose themselves with one another.
Workers up on the Wells Fargo Tower, Roanoke, VA, October 2021
I believe I used the word “perch” here several times when I should have said “scaffolding.” What can I say? I’m not very good with words. [Update — a pal of mine just told me the preferred term is actually “cradle.” But she’s British, and they’ve got some funky linguistic differences with us — with their “flats” and their “chips” and their “bangers” and their consistently correct grammar and all that.]
The guys on the right said of the building (near the very top) are about 20 stories up.
Seen from Campbell Avenue SW, Roanoke, VA, October 2021
Pictured after the first photo are the rears of buildings that face Rorer Avenue to the north.
That building you see in the distance in the last photo before the video is the Wells Fargo Tower.
Regarding the black-and-white shots here — Roanoke is actually a very cheery place, and a clean and well kept city. I just like draining the light and color from photos and then boosting their clarity through the roof.
Elmwood Park today.
The leaves are starting to turn.
I enhanced the color on the second picture — of the sky over The Patrick Henry building. I couldn’t resist bringing out the blue of that sky.
It wouldn’t be heart to pull off.
I saw this sign on Luck Avenue. If I leased a space from Poe & Cronk, I’d call them up, demand to speak directly to Poe, and complain about “THE BEATING OF THAT HIDEOUS HEART” under the floorboards.
I’d be joking, though. (It would be just a Cronk call.)
Trains passing beneath Mill Mountain, Roanoke, VA, October 2021
Vicinity of Jefferson Street SW and Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
Salem Avenue SW, Roanoke, VA, October 2021
The front of these buildings face Campbell Avenue to the south.
Intersection of Williamson Road and Salem Avenue SE, Roanoke, VA
September 2021.
The second photo that you see is the Taubman Museum of Art. The very last photo shows (from right to left), shows the H&C Coffee Company sign, the Dr. Pepper sign, and the Mill Mountain Star in the distance.
