neon – Decaseconds

Tall Stack

2022-Feb-11 adohertyhLeave a comment

Seeking to print some images for a tall, narrow section of wall near a window in my office, I realized that I don’t shoot vertically very often. Perhaps that comes from what originally drove my interest in photography—making cooler desktop wallpapers for my computer. I traveled back to 2013 to find a vertical shot that really tickled my fancy (though luckily Adobe’s Super Resolution was up to the task of upsizing for printing.) The warm sodium-vapor-and-neon glow of San Francisco’s Embarcadero (stacked with the Transamerica Pyramid and Coit Tower) are a moment frozen in time, if not least because the switch to LED streetlights is totally changing the hue of an American city at night.

Wild Salmon

2018-Jun-142018-Jun-14 emceehammrLeave a comment

Seeing the neon signs and hustle and bustle of people at Pike Place Market reminds me of my childhood, doing the shopping with my parents for fresh vegetables.

Organic Hot Apple Cider

2017-Mar-14 emceehammrLeave a comment

Public Market

2017-Jan-19 emceehammr1 Comment

I love the neon light market sign at night.

Labatt Blue Velvet

2014-Nov-12 adohertyh8 Comments

In the past, I’ve documented the slightly sinister feel of Canton at its most David-Lynchian. Here again, the lights of Main Street are friendly and inviting, but with that edge that small towns have. I can’t wait to see it carpeted in snow—the ambience changes again.

Bokeh Bus

2013-Jan-07 adohertyhLeave a comment

The bus is inherently uncomfortable: the seats are too hard, the surfaces feel like too many other people have touched them, and the other passengers come with a side of freaky west coast aggression. All of that misery is forgotten late at night; an empty bus ferrying me home is such a calm respite from the sodium-lamp misery of the outside world.

Under the Glow

2012-Jul-02 adohertyhLeave a comment

There are many times when HDR helps us to capture images that appear more similar to what the human eye naturally perceives than a camera would normally be capable. In other cases, however, HDR reveals features that we might never have perceived. In this case, the complete intricacies of a gas-discharge lamp acting as a sign are revealed. (As a neurotic chemist, I can’t properly call it a neon light–those only glow orange!)