The things you see in San Diego alleys—this one between Cleveland and Maryland in University Heights. As my wife and I approached the exact location where we walked by a discarded 1970s-era gas range 15 days earlier, she wise-cracked: “Is that a psychiatrist’s couch?” You know, it could be. But as we passed, something even odder caught my attention: Bagged cookies hidden in a garbage bin—stuffed in the handle-opening by which a truck would lift the container for emptying. That’s not the sanitary place I would keep my snacks. Would you?
I thought that the juxtaposition of cookies as comfort food and the abandoned couch as a place of comfort—or consolation, if the doctor was listening (hehe)—made a memorable moment. So I pulled out Leica Q2 and captured the Featured Image. Vitals, aperture manually set: f/11, ISO 100, 1/125 sec, 28mm; 9:38 a.m. PDT, today.