Today's random photograph is an older one, taken in 2008 during a photo safari for the 'Available Light' photography class I was taking at Focal Point Photography School in Vancouver (which sadly closed its doors last year after 39 years).
The more I look at this image, the more I like the elements within it. The natural separation in thirds between the metal panels, the shaded overhang and the pink neons. The diverse linear shapes, tone, width and direction. The contrasting colours, the juxtaposition of neon light tubes versus bulbs, the gathering of raindrops on the pink neons and the varied phases of life - and death - among the five lightbulbs.
I took it shooting upwards into the canopy over the entrance to the Granville 7 cinema which, at the time, was the last movie theatre left on downtown Vancouver's once thriving “theatre row” on Granville Street. Sadly, it too closed its doors last year as the Street's gentrification into an over-priced, slut-fest and drunken gong show of an "entertainment district" nears completion.
Too bad the lights have been extinguished on yet another of Vancouver's diminishing number of historical landmarks. I've no idea what's in line to replace it (or has done already) - likely a Subway, Starbucks or Vancouver's gazillionth nail spa - can you say money-laundering?
Cynical? Moi? Perish the thought.
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