Hang Ah Alley

Nikon FM, Nikkor 35mm f2.8, Ilford XP2 Super

This was late in the day, and it seemed a bit desolate and with the requisite inner city grime and garbage strewn about.

This SF Chinatown alley should be very familiar to anyone who grew up in the area like I did.

It's quite a contrast to Steve R.'s recent photos from Baltimore's waterfront which always seems so bright and clean (probably Steve's choice of subject matter, right Steve?).

I debated about posting this because there doesn't seem to be a real point to the image other than to document an empty alley in Chinatown. Maybe the point is the emptiness? What do you think? Is it just another one of those countless images that you would see, check it our for about 10 seconds, and move on, or is there something in it that does something for you?

--Warren