San Francisco residents induce got a peculiarly rigid liking for topiary trees , every bit apparent from these photographs taken past times 3 dissimilar photographers. One is Marc Alcock , a British lensman , who afterward moving to San Francisco inwards 2010 , became interested inwards photographing the visual differences betwixt the ii places. One of the things that struck him near San Francisco , Los Angeles as well as the surrounding suburbs were the houses as well as the unique human relationship they induce got amongst plants as well as nature.
A family inwards San Francisco covered amongst meticulously pruned trees. Photo credit: Kelsey McClellan
“Every family on the street has it’s ain unique personality ,” he says. “The pigment colour , the architectural features as well as nature all working together to course of pedagogy something completely personal to the owner.”
“At 1 terminate of the scale I establish lovingly crafted topiaries , that were thoughtfully paired amongst architectural details – a witting aesthetic decision. At the other terminate at that spot are buildings swallowed past times nature. The plants surgery every bit camouflage for the home.”
“I’m sure enough the people that inhabit the homes are only every bit interesting as well as idiosyncratic ,” he adds. “But the details inwards the images alone offering clues every bit to who may alive there.”
Photo credit: Marc Alcock
Photo credit: Marc Alcock
Photo credit: Marc Alcock
Photo credit: Marc Alcock
Photo credit: Marc Alcock
Photo credit: Marc Alcock
Photo credit: Marc Alcock
Photo credit: Marc Alcock
Alan W. George discovered the same when he moved amongst his married adult woman from Nashville to San Francisco. In his serial of photographs entitled Domesticated , Alan examines , “domesticated urban plants as well as people’s attempts to command as well as manipulate them inwards sometimes lilliputian as well as inconsequential ways. My promise is that these at times humorous as well as tragic examples echo weather inside the larger context of the human relationship betwixt humanity as well as nature. I likewise promise that the viewer tin position amongst sure enough human or anthropomorphic characteristics of the subjects , maybe feeling a fleck saddened past times their subjugated circumstances.”
Photo credit: Alan W. George
Photo credit: Alan W. George
Photo credit: Alan W. George
Photo credit: Alan W. George
Photo credit: Alan W. George
More latterly , lensman Kelsey McClellan has been sharing on Instagram images of these carefully pruned trees closed to her neighborhood inwards San Francisco’s Outer Sunset. Some of them resemble vertical stacks of pom-poms , others expect similar swirls inwards H2O ice cream cones. Enjoy the residual of the gallery below.
Photo credit: Kelsey McClellan
Photo credit: Kelsey McClellan
Photo credit: Kelsey McClellan
Photo credit: Kelsey McClellan
Photo credit: Kelsey McClellan