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Last Notes npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz #SilentSunday #photography npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Chaos, through the windshield. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz #SilentSunday #photography #NatureyCrap npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Bonus picture for today. This is the cable car barn/powerhouse... where just four 510 horsepower motors and gears pull miles of heavy cables underneath city streets, yanking 40 cable cars up and down the hills of San Francisco. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Don't know why but I've been leaning more and more into monochrome recently. It has weight and serious feels... and it works especially well with grim subjects. I am grim. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz I wish to fish like this. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Wooden flowers are the best kind of flowers! npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz This is a picture... npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Street vendor and smoke. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Yes, it's Monday. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz A Lizard Joke npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Kaiser, French Campus: a passageway between buildings. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Cityscape. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz 25th and Harrison npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz A crane. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Parting Glances. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Ceiling skylight. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz #SilentSunday #Photography #StreetPhotography npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz My friend Bill, on a good day in 2011, four years after his dementia diagnosis. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Just three more days. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Well this was interesting... and totally unexpected! The camera caught what my eye did not see: streaks of soap bubbles flying out of a bubble machine, shimmering, sparkling, and popping like champagne bubbles (but you can't call them that because they're not from the province of Champagne). npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…02nw The can of White Claw cradled in his arms. A 12 ounce can of 5% alcohol only goes so far and it's only lunch-time. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Santa. Googling. Liquor stores near me. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz The Devil's Slide Tunnel. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…r3k9 it's so Christmasy, don't you think? npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Move to the suburbs, she said. The kids will have better schools, a yard to play in, and the neighbors won't be weird. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz The garbage recycling facility. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Me, zooming in: npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Heron's Head Park, yesterday, 2:41 p.m. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz #SilentSunday #Photography #LongExposure npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Market Street, Sunday, January 30th, 2011, 2:41 p.m. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Chinatown, 6:22 a.m. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz 999 Brannan Street npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Dystopia npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Like Lascaux... but with Benjamin Moore's Colors of the Year. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…mg74 Ha! ❤️ this. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Santa Cruz, 4:44 p.m. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…mg74 Perhaps. But in the meantime I will rely on you to keep the fediverse populated with wonderful photos of leaves and mushrooms and all thing naturey. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…j0yh *chuckles* yes. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz 2/ npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz 1/ npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz #SilentSunday #photography npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Market Street, 7: 24 p.m. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…4y0h stunning ❤️ npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Playing "catch the pigeon and put him into the stew pot." npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz St Paul's Church. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Shit. Someone call the Koons. Their dog got loose again. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Ahhh. This is it. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…8mpu I did. You've got a good memory. I have another one ready for some future date... But my brain flits from subject to subject too much to remember to post it. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…8mpu Love this! npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz DAD!!!! npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz "We have enough trouble with leaning skyscrapers in this town without you making it worse, Bob." npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Sunrise. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…0qan Beautifully taken, and a powerful reminder of a terrible war. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz #FotoVorschlag: Metall npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Folsom Street, 12:06 p.m. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz #SilentSunday #photography npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Shit, it's Caturday and I meant to post this photo instead of the freeway shot earlier. Dopey me. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Interstate 80 and the Central Freeway, 4:21 p.m. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Double Vision npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…gget beautifully taken 👍 npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…l92x Handsome set of pictures of the cathedral. Nicely taken. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…aya5 Thank you! npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz "Hey Bob. Remember way back when, when you got all upset because Trump did that Gulf of America renaming thing? Yeah. It turns out those were the good old days, buddy boy. That shithead was just warming up." npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Chaotic Little Angels. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Nature. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…ytt6 Oof. I'm sorry to hear this. I hope the roller coaster ride smooths out and you have a speedy, uneventful recovery. My best to you. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz SRSLY? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…xq23 npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…s8q8 npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz My mother, with a pigeon. Brooklyn, New York, 1945. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…fef6 Good to see you pop up for air, Alfie. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz #SilentSunday #photography npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…30np Really good shot... and this angle is quite striking. And amusing. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…30np Indeed. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…30np npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…5f4d Yes I forgot about the Chinese shrimping village. Pre WW II. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…5f4d They really did a nice job on the signs, telling a story of the neighborhood's shipbuilding and industrial past... and even further back, the slaughterhouses of India Basin. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Hunters Point, in the late afternoon. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz City Hall: like ancient Rome but without the togas. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Of Course The Turtle Was The Last One To Show Up npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…xzjz npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…xzjz @nprofile…wjfe Believe me when I say I have more than a few choice words for them. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…7d6t Welcome home! And damn look at that smile! npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Random architectural thought as I wander around my house on a gray Monday morning: every room in this house could become a wet bar if I just add a sink and some shelving. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…7d6t npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz #SilentSunday #photography #NewTopographics npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…hvh9 brilliant description :) npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz A flower? npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…kvh7 npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…jk76 npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz Omg it's Friday already! npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…vvm4 I'm not familiar with that jingle. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…y54t npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…vvm4 Yep, I can close my eyes and hear George Zimmer's voice loud and clear. npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…uae6 npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…gget These are lovely ♥️ npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz "We like the way you look." npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…my5d Funny you should say that. My grandpa Moishe, a wirey old immigrant who fled Russia a century ago, used to play a game with all his grandchildren called "bon bon butz." npub1prdh24uchm659sn0eqrcjp6zzejteyecy2h6zz2nn84x3hfkulasq9lhkt Bob Horowitz @nprofile…m947 There are some annoying people I would like to toss into the air like this.
