The Grand Basin at night

This is a favorite spot of mine. It’s called the Grand Basin and it’s located in the middle Forest Park in the City of St. Louis, Missouri. I enjoyed this image of the area because it contains views of some rather large objects (like the St. Louis Art Museum and a lake/fountains in front of the Museum, as well as tiny cracks on the pavement, where I took this photo (approximately 300 yards from the Museum).  I placed the camera on the ground and let it auto-shoot this scene.

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I come to this spot on occasion in order to write while the sun sets. From here it’s about a 5-mile bicycle ride back to my home.

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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  1. Avatar of Mike Pulcinella
    Mike Pulcinella

    You're getting quite "artsy" with your photography. I like it!

  2. Avatar of Erich Vieth
    Erich Vieth

    Thanks, Mike. As we've discussed before, here's my "technique": I take a lot of pictures and I delete most of them. I was inspired by Linus Pauling, who was once asked how he had such good ideas. He said: "The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas."

    I don't post 99.9% of the images I take.

  3. Avatar of Dan Klarmann
    Dan Klarmann

    Or Ken Keasey, who typed reams while high, and then kept select paragraphs when sober, to end up with "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".

    I usually take thousands of shots on a trip, and then post a couple of hundred to illustrate it. (My Travel Pages Most of the descriptive text is in the captions, in more recent years).

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