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John FitzGerald

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Posted: 21 Jan 2024

Taken: 15 Jan 2013

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12 comments - The latest ones
 William Sutherland
William Sutherland club
Excellent traffic lights capture and perspective!
13 months ago.
John FitzGerald club has replied to William Sutherland club
Thanks, William.
13 months ago.
 Joe, Son of the Rock
Joe, Son of the Rock club
I love the colour contrast between yellow and blue, John. I hope you have a great new week. Kindest regards, Joe
13 months ago.
John FitzGerald club has replied to Joe, Son of the Rock club
Thanks, Joe, and the same to you.
13 months ago.
 tiabunna
tiabunna club
A good composition and quite an array of lights.
13 months ago.
John FitzGerald club has replied to tiabunna club
Thanks, George. The City of Toronto loves traffic lights.
13 months ago.
 Ulrich John
Ulrich John club
Big City Lightshow ! Another nice candid, John !
13 months ago.
John FitzGerald club has replied to Ulrich John club
Thanks, Ulrich. Tronto is addicted to traffic lights.
13 months ago.
 Ecobird
Ecobird club
Well captured John. Great colours
Have a good week
13 months ago.
John FitzGerald club has replied to Ecobird club
Thsnks, Carol, and the same to you.
13 months ago.
 Steve Bucknell
Steve Bucknell club
For me, this is a window into an very different world of bright blue/yellow vibrant, contrasting colours. It made me think of a Wallace Stevens poem: ‘On the Surface of Things’:

‘In my room, the world is beyond my understanding;
But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four
hills and a cloud.’

Or, as here, poles, bricks, yellow lights, wires like the strings on a blue guitar. Things exactly as they are, yet…heightened? The seeing engenders a lighter sense of being. Perhaps this is what the walking photographer seeks and, by happenstance or with deliberation, seeks to capture and convey.

In other words, I quite like it, I do.
13 months ago. Edited 13 months ago.
 John FitzGerald
John FitzGerald club
Thank you very much, Steve. Your comments and the quotation from Stevens clarifiy why I have all those photos in my Everydayland album. Thanks again. I'm not familiar with that particular poem but -- honest -- I have a collection of his poems on my phone and will look it up.

Speaking of blue guitars, "The Man with the Bluw Guitar" has a highly interesting related theme. Some friends of mine and I recorded (for circulation among ourselves) an extract from "The Man with the Blue Guitar" (starting with "Am I a man that is dead"), with a punk arrangement and sensibility.

"I have a collection of his poems on my phone" -- why, when I was a boy if I'd said that everyone would have thought I was newly arrived from Mars.
13 months ago. Edited 13 months ago.

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