09.08
Sometimes, I feel drawn to a composition. If I don’t stop and get the photograph when the urge first hits, the pull increases with each time that I pass the spot.
This is one of those spots.
A simple aluminum fence, marking the border of a parking lot, like many other parking lots in the Downtown Springfield (Illinois) area. Too many parking lots, many say.
The alley way between two parking lots, leading across the street to another alley, which ends at the 3rd Street railroad tracks and the train station beyond.
An old high rise former hotel, now a collection of apartments with a nice nouvele cuisine restaurant in the ground floor.
The skyline of a small Capitol city.
It’s the perspective of the fence, broken only by the tall lamp post that catches my eye, and blows wistful across my soul. A mystery, but one now caught and committed to memory if only a digital one.
This is enough for now. Likely I’ll revisit the scene in a changing season, for more perspective.
Another nice one, Matt. Is that the St Nicolas (?) Hotel in the background?
Tis indeed the old Saint Nick in the background. The restaurant on the ground floor is Catie Girl’s http://www.caitiegirls.com/ Their menu is full of locally grown and full flavored twists on traditional fare. They even have a decent horseshoe sandwich made with jalapeno cornbread and tri-colored fries.