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Weekly theme: Springsteen Symposium Weekend

Location: Asbury Park, NJ
Date taken: September 26, 2009
Film: N/A
Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ50
Lens: Lumix 35 - 420mm
Focal Length: 35mm
Exposure Time: 1/640
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO: 100
Macro: None
Edited: Picasa 3 on MacBook

About the photo: As Billie writes this week in the description of her beautiful photo, we "both attended the Springsteen Symposium on September 24-27. On Saturday afternoon, before the Stone Pony Concert, we walked around Asbury Park and noted Springsteen's 'City of Ruin.' We took hundreds of photographs between us. Our assignment for this week on 'Composing with Images' was to find a photograph that we took over the weekend that relates to Springsteen's lyrics." I chose this image of the importance of the beach, boardwalk, and pier as cultural spaces in Springsteen's lyrics. The title is taken from the second chorus in "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" from The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle (1973). The song embodies much of what Asbury Park was in 1973; the photo, I think, embodies what it is now: a resilient city lost in a shadow of its past struggling for a new life.

photo categories: B&W, Bill, Springsteen Symposium Weekend
tags: Asbury Park, beach, boardwalk, flag, New Jersey, pier, silhouette, Sun

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