she walked like punctuation across the sentence of a shutter. her silhouette wrapped the sun like a warning. portolito above, silence below.
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she walked like punctuation across the sentence of a shutter. her silhouette wrapped the sun like a warning. portolito above, silence below.
the world bends and warps behind the glass blocks. figures split, multiply, distort. green patches flicker like broken pixels in an old screen. a reality rearranged by architecture. a city fragmented.
The 2018 summer reading theme includes the idea that much of what goes on in and around cities passes unnoticed; hence the series name, "The Unseen City." One of the events linked to the theme was this evening birdwatching walk from 7 pm to 8:30 pm. Far above the rooftops were clouds of Chimney Swifts, along with an occasional songbird, crow, or pigeon. Later someone pointed out one of the city's peregrine falcons (there are 2 nesting pairs, but by now the young fledglings have left, for the mostpart). Here is much of the 50-60 who attended atop Crescent Park in city center, overlooking the high, brick courthouse building. Hovering the mouse pointer at the top-right corner of the image shows the location of the nesting box where interested viewers can see the hatchlings in springtime grow into fledglings. By now in early August the raptors are out in the world, well on their way to seizing territories of their own and then later to invite a mate to begin the next generation.
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The evening bird walk came to the bank of the Grand River, south of Pearl Street bridge, for a look at water birds going about their lives. The city's 2nd site for a nesting box built to reintroduce peregrines sits at top-right corner of the GVSU (Grand Valley State University) building that fills the right edge of this photo. Somehow the peregrines living in the box atop the court building, about 400 meters to the east and north, across the river from this one, do not encroach on each other's hunting territory.
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From 7 to 8:20 p.m. a group of 55 or 60 enthusiasts from stroller age to octogenarians tagged along with the bird walk leaders to gaze at one of the nesting pairs of falcons; study the water birds on the Grand River in city center, and track the groups of Chimney Swifts darting high overhead in the insect feasting. Others in cars or spending money downtown noticed the group's size and coordinated viewing with most holding some form of telescopic lens to their eyes.
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A Martin Parr-type shot taken outside the Martin Parr exhibition at the Guildhall Art Gallery.
(or is it USE NEN City?) The Martin Parr exhibition at the Guildhall Art Gallery in London.
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