Skylines — Photography by Bill Nash: series, travel, skyline, New York, destinations, cityscape, architecture, canada, vancouver, 1920x1080.
The wallpapers are just an output. I used that tag to help people find them if that's what they wanted from the internet that day. For me, a skyline is a souvenir of sorts, an opportunity to take in the wide angle character of a city. The buildings tell a city's story, some of its history. A good skyline will give you a chance to ponder that, maybe see what the people who live there keep falling in love with.
A little of column A, a little of column B. I can look at each one and remember that trip, who I saw, what I did. The least remarkable skyline in the set, which to me is Denver, was otherwise an amazing trip, where I got up at 6am to photograph wolves and had an ambassador timberwolf with a jaw-span as long as my forearm demand belly rubs.
A visitor can see some of those shots on their own, reasonably easily. But a few have my perspective, my effort, my unique relationship with light and time, and they'll never see it that way on their own. So I'm sharing what I loved about it, and maybe that resonates with someone else. I really love New York, and shooting a skyline there is almost cheating. London's a close second. I need to get back to Japan, though, and Prague is on my short list.
You really have to love a city with a hard winter, and New Yorkers and Denver... ites? Do they have a plural of their own? I dunno. Anyway, they're a breed apart, they both stay for very different reasons. But Seattle. When you see Tahoma peeking out of the haze and it tickles something in your brain, you've got something in common with the folks over in Tokyo, and their love for Mount Fuji.
Ugh, Nashville. They went through a crazy construction boom, lots of cranes, a big tall building that looks like a nameless telco was paying homage to Barad-dûr. The cranes killed it for me. It just felt wrong, and I didn't want to edit them out.