Sally Wakelin – Studies in Creativity
Paintings, drawings, sculpture and writing
TRUTH – off the grid!
The Look-out – great sunglasses
Dancing strangers
‘Worshipping’ at pillars outside the City Hall
The Bride and Groom – waiting alone for a ride, at the de Young Museum. I wonder where their gusts are.
De Young Museum reflections
What a shirt!
Doing the usual tourist thing, a boat cruise around the bay, a stroll along Fishermans Wharf and a cable car ride and a walk on the Golden Gate bridge.
Bollards at Pier 39
The museum stands tall over Golden Gate park, a dramatic beacon inviting visitors to the de Young Museum. Designed by Herzog and de Meuron, it encompasses innovative use of texture, reflective and transparent materials, playfully odd-shaped spaces and unexpected transitions between interior and exterior spaces.
My photos are not as I would wish, my camera weighs around 880g and is hard to keep still with my broken but mending arm. It’s even harder to properly compose images quickly before pain begins.
The copper cladding has been worked in ways which are being enhanced by being weathered. It’s is a building which will change and develop over time and will repay visits in varying weather conditions.
Dimpled copper cladding weathering and darkening
Dimpling giving way to perforations
A veil of perforated copper drawn over the tower
The courtyard entrance without a visible entry-way
Beautiful juxtaposition of building, landscape, furniture and sculpture, the man in the caramel clothes was a perfect foil to the dark mass of the building
Sally Wakelin - Studies in Creativity 
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