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That crack in my sidewalk looks like a perfect landscape painting
I was walking to my car after a night shift, totally brain dead, and I stopped because this random crack in the concrete next to my apartment building caught my eye. It had filled with dirt and a little moss, and the way the sunlight was hitting it made the whole thing look like a tiny mountain valley with a river running through it. I actually pulled out my phone and took a picture, felt kinda silly doing it at 7 in the morning. Later I cropped it a bit and added a filter on my phone just for fun, and my roommate said it looked like a watercolor painting she saw in a gallery once. Now I find myself scanning the ground everywhere I go, looking for cracks or stains that accidentally look like something cool. Has anyone else ever stopped to photograph a weird stain or crack and been surprised at how good it turned out?
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umab861d ago
The moss does all the heavy lifting honestly, gives it that instant landscape vibe. I have a whole album on my phone dedicated to weird pavement art I find biking around. You start seeing faces in manhole covers and rivers in gutter cracks once your brain locks onto this stuff. It is a little ridiculous but also kind of addictive, like a free art gallery under your feet.
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