Back Alley Blues ... for CoreyBlack by auntietk
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For Corey ...
Every time I look at this shot, I think of you, my friend! I could almost feel your finger on the shutter when I made this picture in downtown Seattle on February 4, 2010. It's between 2nd and 3rd, off Stewart.
In a fun little twist, the brick wall of the alley is the back of an old car sales showroom. (You know the sort ... two floors, big huge windows all across the front, built in the 20s or 30s.) It's now a luggage store, but the character is still there.
I loved the brick, the arches, the graffiti, and the line of trash cans SO tidily lined up! (Seattle is just a Chicago wannabe when it comes to stuff like this ... like a church kid trying to look tough and cool ... it's just too CLEAN!)
Comments (28)
wysiwig
Fantastic image. It made me think of an installation in a museum. Everything is so wonderfully color coordinated. All the bins are neatly lined up with just two lids slightly open. For a back alley it does look very clean.
cfulton
Too clean!? Wow, would love it if our cities could match. I love the city grime on the bricks, gives loads of character! Clive
jayfar
Realities of life captured in one click of the camera. Great shot.
awjay
the wheelie bin blues
lyron
Cool capture!!
durleybeachbum
I can so relate to whoever lined those up like that: when you live on the edge of disorder, any attempt to file things makes you feel better... Believe me!
GARAGELAND
Street trash at its best!! Cool capture
KateBlack10
Fantastic shot and tribute to Corey. This is so HIM!
cannonn
very very wonderful
Faemike55
Excellent capture, Tara!
beachzz
Right up his alley (sorry, sometimes I just can't help myself!!)
Meisiekind
LOL @ Marilyn... No pun intended there! Great work Tara and excellent dedi to Corey!
helanker
A really awesome dedication to Corey :-) A reallt excellent capture.
bmac62
Gee, the next time we go for a walkabout Seattle, we'll have to do more back alley looking. Like your perspective very much...both the visual and the verbal:* Should think this will suit Corey to a "T".
neiwil
This is a surprise....'it's Liverpool'. When we went to watch War of the Worlds we made our way through the back streets of central Liverpool and this is it. Different cars, slightly different wheelie bins but the brickwork and graffiti are the same.'Global sameness' excellent.
billcody
"Beautiful wasteland" is a song title by my famous scottish rockband "Capercaillie". Looking at all the fine waste cans I had this idea.. This could be a backyard somewhere in downtown Berlin, but your place is much more clean.... A pic with a great atmosphere!
npauling
I like how people have at least made an attempt at keeping this place tidy. I would rather see it without the grafitti, but I guess that is the modern way. [sighing]. Excellent shot.
goodoleboy
Great lighting effects, brickwork, trash bins, but, for personal reasons, I believe graffiti sucks, and is a reflection of society's plunge down the abyss. The very least they could do is spray something intelligible for the man/woman on the street to understand.
MrsRatbag
It may look tidy, but I've seen these alleys in Seattle and they do smell just like the messy ones...It does make a wonderful capture! Great work!
RodS Online Now!
Delightful back alley shot, Tara! One can almost hear saxaphone music issuing from one of those doorways. Excellent photo! You've inspired me to get out and explore KC a bit more (when it warms up...)
moochagoo
This is real life :)
Chipka
I love the backsides of cities! This is such a marvel. Corey and I both know a person who would look at this, pucker her lips as if she'd just bitten a lemon wrapped in aluminum foil, and then say something about "urban blight." But that's okay. I love this shot. There's so much in it and it's so NOT like a Chicago alley...you can actually SEE this one! It's got all sorts of surface excitement in it: textures, colors, graffiti curves and angles, lines and other stuff that goes with graffiti. Really nice. I love the neat line of the bins, the various colors, and what really draws me is the graffiti. It makes me wonder who wrote it and what it means to them...something, obviously, but it's so cryptic and easy to dismiss as "blight." This rocks and no pun intended, it's right up Corey's alley. Okay, I couldn't resist that one.
bazza
Cool shot, well done!!
Cosme..D..Churruca
wow... those walls... love it!
PHELINAS
Splendid photo ,very realist!
junge1
Great capture Tara! This could be anywhere, but I thought it may have been somewhere in Germany with the variety of cans. Turns out it is in Seattle and you are ahead of us (Phoenix) in the number of recycable items (you have three types of cans, we only have two).
gonzojr
Awesome shot!
YorkBerlin
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