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Shopfront, San Pablo Avenue (Richmond, California).

#photography #StreetPhotography #RichmondCa #surreal #UnintentionallySurreal
November 17, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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La Cienega at night (2013).

#photography #LosAngeles #urban #ZombieWigStore #StrollsWithAniPhone #UnintentionallySurreal
A bunch of wigs on lit-from-below modeling busts seen through a store window late at night on La Cienega Boulevard, LA (almost but not quite Beverly Hills).
April 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Basin, California, 2015. No one believes me when I say we just stumbled upon this exactly as you see it here (in the middle of nowhere), but we did.

#photography #LandscapePhotography #Mojave #Desert #California #TravelsWithAniPhone #UnintentionallySurreal
A slightly shot-up and broken white hot water heater stands tall in the hilly Mojave desert near Basin Road, in the middle of nowhere. The heater's topped with (what I think is) a hairdresser's practice head, also shot-up. The light's very hot and flat.
August 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Rodeo Man (San Pablo Avenue, Rodeo, California, early 1990's).

#photography #UrbanLandscape #urban #BayArea #California #SanPabloAvenue #UnintentionallySurreal
A pouty topless monochrome male model poses barefoot in Levis on a bus shelter advertising poster in front of the oil refinery in Rodeo, California. Some distance behind the model and the bus shelter a tall pale funnel or smokestack emits a frilly puff of steam.
April 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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A very concrete abstract… (The Embarcadero, Oakland, 2005). The concrete plant's long been replaced by blocks of crappily-built condos, of course.

#photography #streetscape #urban #oakland #california #UnintentionallySurreal #PreGentrification
A line of yellow concrete trucks recedes into the distance away from the camera off Oakland's The Embarcadero. Each truck has a bunch of black and grey tires and wheels in weird and unlikely places.
March 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Last! Back in the 1980’s I used to watch the posters on the walls of the Underground change every day in surreal ways like this; I wish I’d taken more photos of them (London, 1986).

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Torn layered posters, mostly in a reddish sort of orange or white, with some text on the left hand side (the Shaw Theatre! I remember that…).
September 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Wilhelm-Leuschner Strasse, Frankfurt am Main (2020, immediately pre-Covid).

#photography #streetscape #UnintentionallySurreal #frankfurt #germany #StrollsWithAniPhone #FastNachtsZug
A man dressed in bright orange waterproof clothing nonchalantly drives a green tractor through a rain-dampened intersection in Frankfurt (Germany). The tractor's towing a big yellow red-billed duck on a blue crown on top of a trailer with red sideboards. In the background, various low-rise apartment and commercial buildings hem the scene in. (It's all a prelude to Fastnachtszug…).
February 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Matching Tie and Handkerchief (San Pablo Avenue).

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The top half of a storefront mannequin with a featureless reflective golden head is dressed in a checked coat with a (very!) bright red tie and matching handkerchief and a (very) dark brown shirt. A rather rainy San Pablo Avenue is reflected in the intervening shopfront window pane. I pass this clothes store / tailor's every few days; it's full of reflective-headed mannequins like this, but the suits are usually rather sober…
December 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Cats. Fuck. #unintentionallysurreal
November 4, 2023 at 4:20 AM