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Downhill From Here
30 November 2020
It is difficult to take a photograph of a hill. As soon as you abandon depth perception, the sense of a steep slope or rise flattens into a wall. Your eyes give your brain twice the information a lens does for a reason.
Downhill From Here. Nikon D200 with 43-86mm Nikkor at f8, 1/750 second and ISO 200. Processed in Adobe Camera Raw.
But we keep trying. In our neighborhood, there are nothing but very steep hills. The kind where the sidewalks have steps built into them so you don't go skiing down into the next intersection.
This was nearly successful, although we've struggled with the edit.
It helps that we're at the top of the hill so you can see the parked cars receding along with the facades of the homes on the block. And San Bruno Mountain in the background helps shore up the perspective, too.
But there isn't much to look at. Things are only partly glimpsed. Cars, Homes, the rest.
Still, we'll keep trying. It may seem to be an uphill battle but we won't mind at all if it's all downhill from here.