Thirty minutes in "town"

We had a horrendous wind/rain/lightning/thunder storm last night. Abby spent the night under the bed in the guest room and I felt like joining her! I read that the rains are supposed to begin again oh, right about now, so earlier I went into town to see what I could find to shoot.

I liked the nautical decor on this bayside home. And then I found a mural painted on the side of a small building.

In my current online class, students have been working on an assignment called "Extreme Colors," and I'm hearing some whining from the Californians ... "It's dark and gloomy here and I can't find ANYTHING to shoot." Weenies. I found a colorful door on the main street of our town, and then on my way back to the car created a sort of weird composition of the corner of a house. Pretty good colors. And I live in OREGON, you California wimps!  :-)

Murals in the San Francisco Mission District

Sunday I conducted a three-hour photo walk to shoot the colorful murals in San Francisco's Mission District. There were 10 of us and we had a lot of fun finding "art within art" as well as asking Chris to walk back and forth in front of one particular mural. "Okay Chris, next time faster and take longer strides! No! Slower! Oops, I didn't get it. Could you do that again?" Poor Chris looked like a duck in a shooting gallery! These mural images depict Frida Kahlo looking on in a rather stoic manner. ©Carol Leigh