I have a thing with telephone lines. I do not know exactly when it happened, but I gained an acute fascination with photographing these lines in the sky throughout the city of San Francisco. There are times when I think I could spend numerous rolls of film just shooting this sort of subject, strange as that may seem. On a trip with my buddy Dennis to photograph people downtown, I made a pit-stop to take this photo - just more evidence of my compulsive habit.
What normally attracts me to these lines are their straight intersections; making the sky look like a shattered piece of glass. Most of these scenes are quite the opposite of organic - ironically, it was the organic nature of these wires that caught my attention. The pure chaos of these wires are simply amazing to me. Every angle is a completely different visual composition - I feel like I could take a multitude of photos of one group of wires from different angles and have each one be completely unique. If you’re in a dense urban area, I highly suggest taking your camera and looking up - you’ll be amazed at a completely different world.
