The Galleria Ghost Town
Today Ian has asked me to be a guest poster for the blog, and to kick off the weeks theme of "guest photographers."
Some of you may know me, but chances are a lot of you don't. My name is David Kapp from Life Kapptured. I shoot a mix of film and digital, and have a separate blog for each. Today's image is film, taken with my trusty Nikon F3 HP & Ilford FP4+ Black and White film.
The image is from the Galleria in San Francisco, just off of Union Square. I couldn't believe how empty this place was. It was Friday about 3:00 when I was there. I could almost count everyone in the mall on one hand. I guess its hard to pull traffic away from the famous shopping district.
I know this image is a bit small at 500pix wide, so I've uploaded a larger version if you want to take a closer look.
I had a bit of trouble trying to match my post format with Ian's. The center align I used throws off the site a bit, but hopefully its not too big of a deal.
Let me know if you have any questions, I'll be here all day :)
Dave
posted by timurguest at 17:09
14 Comments:
Very nice study of interior space.
Nice one Dave. Like the depth and dimension of the pic. Can't believe Galleria could be soo empty!
Nice view. Indeed quite an empty space. I am happy I don't have a store there :-)
Gorgeous Dave.. what an awesome shot.. so much depth.. I love it.. What an awesome guest photgrapher! Great choice! You are an amazing photographer!
Lovely b&w!
Hello Dave!
Hi Dave, I've visited your blog before and wondered how you keep up with both film and digital! This is a very nice shot, I love the tone and contrast... the atrium window pattern is great!
Mmmm...this is great, Dave! I love all the lines and curves, of course, that gorgeous contrast! Such a vast space!
Thanks everyone for the nice comments. I really had a lot of fun inside this mall, and will definitely go back in the near future. I've never had complete freedom shooting indoors as I did there. It was great to shoot and have nice conversations with the shop workers. You could clearly see they were bored out of their minds.
Kim- I shoot as much as I can, and pick a different camera depending on my mood. So I'll get out a few times a week with both film and digital. It does get overwhelming like it did this past week when I had 4 rolls of film to develop and scan. Many, many hours spent in front of the computer :(
Hi Dave,
I can't commnt on your site. Maybe I am doing something wrong ?
A great opening to the guest week! Gorgeous and intriguing photo, so derserted that it seems a CAD blueprint! Very nice Dave!
Hi Sidney, sorry to hear your having problems on my site, but I think I know what's going on. When you click the comment link, the text box opens below all the comments. I used to have a popup style comment system but too many browsers were killing it.
Let me know if that fixes the problem, if not I'll have to dig a bit deeper.
Dave
Wow! Great architecture shot! I love this one!
Dave, Thank you for posting this one - this is the first picture on my blog which was actualy shot with film.
i love the way that the canopy and balconies lead to a vanishing point giving an astonishing feeling of depth.
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