Gridlock #17 Las Vegas, Nevada 2012

I suspect these people didn’t feel nearly as trapped or boxed in as they looked.

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Gridlock #16 Las Vegas, Nevada 2012

 The Tropicana Hotel. In the bright mid-day sun the wall of windows on the hotel was blindingly bright.Besides the fact that they (along with the bump-outs at the roof edge) added an interesting pattern to the almost all white composition, I found the operating windows unusual. Not many hotels have that feature anymore, especially on high up floors.]]>

Gridlock #16 Las Vegas, Nevada 2012

Part of the huge Wynn Hotel building. Looking up at all those hotel rooms all I could think of was what would happen if everybody flushed their toilets at the same time?]]>

Gridlock #15 Las Vegas, Nevada 2012

Given all the huge hotels with thousands of rooms, I didn’t really take full advantage of all the opportunities there were in Las Vegas to add to my gridlock series but I did get a few. This particular shot happens to be a parking garage, for Harrah’s if I recall correctly.]]>

Gridlock #14
Billings, Montana
2011

Some balconies at an apartment building. It looks like an outdoor, vertically oriented. cubicle arrangement, a residential cousin to the more common office cubicle environment.

Gridlock #12
Sacramento, California
2011

A wall on the newer part of the Crocker Art Museum.

Gridlock #11
Asheville, North Carolina
2011

Asheville isn’t really a big high-rise kind of town, as this bank building suggests (in a round about way anyway). If there were a lot of other tall buildings downtown, the windows in this one would more likely reflect other buildings rather than sky.

Problems of Scale #2 Wilsall, Montana 2012

I can see this as a night shot of a big office buildings with a lot of fluorescent tubes lit in the interior; as such it might make a good addition to my Measures of Anonymity (a.k.a. Gridlock) series. In actuality was taken inside the grain elevator in yesterday’s shot, with the light bars of course coming from the sun shining through the cracks between the boards in the wall.]]>

Measures of Anonymity #1 Denver, Colorado 2012

While in Denver I was having fun adding to my Gridlock series of photos of regular grids on buildings when I became intrigued with the thought that these regular patterns could be interpreted as metaphors for anonymity in the city. The massive number of boxes in the grids reflect the number of lives that are carried out behind them while their sameness represents the fact that we know essentially nothing about these individuals. From the viewer’s standpoint anyway these lives are carried out in obscurity or anonymity. So I’ve renamed the series and will be expanding its scope to include varying degrees of uniformity in the building patterns and also glimpses of individuality that impose themselves on the grids.]]>