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I don’t even remember taking this photo.

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And it isn’t well composed at all.

But it’s still interesting, because there’s a lot going on here.

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Night Train!!

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No, I’m not talking about the truly abominable malt liquor.

I’m talking about an actual night train in Roanoke, Virginia.

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“Night on Mill Mountain?”

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I thought this Campbell Avenue storefront display was pretty cute.  What you see is a gargoyle overlooking one of those quaint ceramic villages.  (Sorry for the terrible picture … there were reflections in that glass.)

I don’t know if this diorama is an intentional reference to the “Night on Bald Mountain” sequence  in Walt Disney’s “Fantasia” (1940), but that’s what it makes me think of.  It would make it a really clever homemade Halloween decoration.

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I wish that you could see my sky.

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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.

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VADER’S ON THAT SHIP. I CAN FEEL IT.

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Anyone ever notice that the top of the Taubman Museum of Art looks like a lot like an imperial star cruiser?

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Looking north to downtown Roanoke, VA, from South Jefferson Street, October 2021

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I just like how all those boxlike squares juxtapose themselves with one another.

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Workers up on the Wells Fargo Tower, Roanoke, VA, October 2021

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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 side of the building (near the very top) are about 20 stories up.

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Seen from Campbell Avenue SW, Roanoke, VA, October 2021

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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.

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Elmwood Park today.

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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.

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It wouldn’t be heart to pull off.

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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.)

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