Seeing 2012 (#96)

For your consideration:  a pitch for recyling clichés, perhaps:  is anyone else out there already exhausted by the once-a-minute use of fiscal cliff as our latest addition to the national lexicon?  It doesn't have quite the potential lasting power as Day of Infamy, associated with today's date since 1941.  (Let us pause to remember the USS Arizona, among the many fallen at Pearl Harbor.)

Well, while on the matter of slippery slopes, forthwith an offering from one of the more eclectic areas of downtown San José.  I photograhed this subject from a number of angles; this submission is the most acutely angular, and suitably composed in order to simultanously depict an incongruous stasis amidst a severely plumeting perspective. The juxtapostion creating considerable energetic tension.

The most challenging aspects of capturing this scene were manging the sun's glare while also trigging the shutter just when those racing flags' flapping were synchronized by a stiff breeze  — it took several attempts before I nabbed them such that there is space between the upper paired poles.

Untitled (Disoriented Downhill Racer), #9986-7D

© 2012 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.

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Details: September 2, 2012; Canon 7D; f/11 @ 1/1000 sec; ±0 EV; ISO 500;
Tokina AT-X Pro 11-16mm f/2.8 DX @ 16mm

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