Day 105: Roof Access to the Factory

2026-05-22

Hello!

Remember how I said I don't usually set up a composition and wait for someone to walk in the frame for a photo? Well, today is one of those exceptions.

This historic clay factory was open to the public the day I went, so I walked up the stairs and got to the upper floor. I'm not sure where the boundary is between public area and staff-only access, so I can only hope that I didn't see something I'm not supposed to.

The upper floor grants access to this outside walkway, and I knew it would be a cool frame to capture with my camera. I didn't bring my zoom lens that day, so I walked into the right spot that would include enough of that walkway across the walled courtyard, and waited.

I didn't have to wait long. Less than a minute after I had decided I wanted to take a photo up there, someone with a rainbow tie-dye shirt came across, and I took this photo of them at the rightmost rule-of-thirds line.

I wish they weren't staring at their phone as they walked (really, street photography isn't interesting to me when everyone has the same boring white wireless buds and staring at their boring phone with that boring slouched posture), but they're far enough in the distance that I wonder if it would even be noticeable until I mentioned it at all.

Now, should I have kept the white tents below? In my editing software, I attempted cropping the white tents out and just keeping the upper floor walkway. But without that context, you can't easily see that it's the upper floor, and the aspect ratio becomes really, really thin. So I kept the white tents. Maybe you think a panoramic crop would have fit better...

Finally, lifelogging your photos. That's kinda what I do! It's a bit haunting knowing that if I were to take one photo every day, like I have been, I would be dead by Day 20,000.

Until then, I've got bills due soon. So allow me to promote my tip jar and my expenses.

I pay $262.16 USD every year to keep this site working, so if you want to help fund one month of site maintenance, I would very much appreciate your contributions. I'll grant access to all the Originals if any of them seem like good computer wallpaper material, or if you think you can edit the raw files better than I can :-).

(I make it seem like twenty-ish dollars a month is extravagant to me, but I'm managing fine on my own! You don't need to support unless you really want to, but I'm here to make you aware that this is an option to consider.)

Cheers,
David