underfoot mandalas
I’ve long been fixated on manhole covers and service panels. There’s something inspiring about the way an object with a completely ordinary and necessary form and function can be expressed in so many different ways.
London 1
London 2
London 3
Some of them highlight the region or the manufacturer, others simply interpret the design requirements in all sorts of creative ways.
New York 1
New York 2
New York 3
I’ve been capturing these things since before phones had cameras although the majority of the shots were shot with whatever phone I had on me at the time. Others were shot with actual cameras. All of these were shot by me.
Bay Area 1
Bay Area 2
Bay Area 3
For this aspect of the project, I figured that since my goal was to get people to notice these things in a new light, I’d show them in a variety of styles. In this regard, Lightroom offers perhaps too many options. After a while, I centered on one each between color, black and white and duo tone.
