Reflections and Mashups

Reflections and mashups. Here's a great reflection shot from friend Katie's corner apartment. The actual view looks northwest in this photo. The reflection includes the not-pictured northerly and northeasterly view, mapping huge portions of the city onto its northwestern quarter:


Here's a mashup of two separate shots, one of the bridges of Portland, OR spanning the Willamette, the other of the main fountain in GG Park's Music Concourse with the DeYoung Museum's tower. Each mashup contains the fade in/out of randomly displayed photos via my computer's screensaver:
Worlds within worlds. Here's a non-reflection photo of part of Katie's view:

Here it is reflected:


A mashup of a Swiss tower and the underside of SF's Doyle Drive:

A more abstract mashup:

Playground, at the beach or in the city?


Reflections everywhere:

Escher-like effect:

Mashups can be blatant or subtle. Hummingbird and cityscape:

The Duomo's gargoyles in Milan are lit by an Illinois sunset snapped from a bus:


Palace of Fine Arts in the woods:


Reflection on the comforts of home:

USF's Lone Mountain tower faintly reflected with the Marin Headlands:

SF skyline meets the trees:

Atlantis?

Mashups:

The very next image. Two happy randomnesses:


Crowds:

St. Ignatius dome and towers reflected into the trees:

Swiss hillsides meets SF sunset:



Cloud tree:

Mashups

Mashups. Two or more songs or tracks blended together to create a new work. It's nothing new, but it's fitting that this now wildly popular phenomenon is coming into its own at a time when we seem to be completely plundering the past--especially the recent past--for our entertainments. Yellow and Blue make Green.

In this spirit I offer a few photo mashups of my own. These images are all taken from photos displayed on my laptop's screensaver, which I set to randomly select one of the 17,000 or so pictures stored on my computer. Each image is shown for about 10 seconds and then fades for about a second to a new photo. I was interested in that one second fade-in/out, a brief layering where two worlds gently collide and a new world glimmers. The randomness of the exercise lends an almost ad-lib quality. I didn't what was coming or how it would react to what was leaving. The results are intriguing and dreamlike.


Here's folks walking Bay To Breakers in GG Park transported to Ocean Beach:


A mix of vistas:


Garden sailing:


City and plants:


A mashup of San Franciscos. Downtown skyline looms over blended GG Park and city:

USF's Lone Mountain tower:

Oldenburg Safety Pin in the DeYoung sculpture garden gets a Marin Headlands vista:



Here's three consecutive shots:




Milan's Duomo gets even more gothic:


St. Anne's in SF:



Baby Ezra makes an appearance with a skyline shot of Milan:


Another Ezra shot with the streets of Milan. All random!


Ocean Beach and the apartment view together: