I wish more pictures from you. Nice and moody. No industrial areas to be explored still? Or what about a picture like you posted, but then with some god honest real people? Where you have lunch for example? And btw not from behind the window like I usually do, which is more for amateurs, like me.
Oh, just because you're in such a great mood, I had one stuffed on my camera still, especially for you. It even was a "real" camera, as in full-frame no less. Well, actually less, because as usual I cropped, but I won't tell Russ if you won't either.
That's a great shot! Your terrible secret is safe with me!
If I had real people I would probably not be shooting fake ones. But that said, the fake ones don't hand me a model fee slip! This year I feel the heat has just sapped the energy right out of me, hence the wail for winter's rain.
It's 23:59 and I have just watched a repeat of an old
Montalbano story; I feel kinda suspended in mid-air every time I watch him. He is my son's double. I am more aware of that than of anything else that goes down during the production and it leaves me confused, not least because I wish like hell I had access to his restaurants! I am going off my favourite French one: it seems to be ever more crowded and the food less tasty, and just too heavy for summer eating. I get half-way through it and feel I want to go away. It would be a pity, after all these years since my wife died, because it has become a sort of second home for eating. Maybe it's all in my head, or maybe he's running out of steam too. The heat doesn't help.
That's a penalty of tourism: it takes away anything authentic and fake eventually becomes the norm. But without it, these restaurants would close, because that's what most have to do in the winter, telling its own tale of the local economics. But, in years gone by, there were always places we went to regularly all year round. Either the restaurants now make so much money in summer they don't need the work in winter (though the waiters do!) or there simply isn't the local business anymore to support it all year round. I believe the latter.
You have made me feel guilty not using that camera these days...
:-)
