"Bowl for Health", Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA, 2007.
All the pixels, shoe rental not included, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/2123765265
"Bowl for Health", Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA, 2007.
All the pixels, shoe rental not included, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/2123765265
This was captured with a BetterLight scanning digital back and Nikkor 90mm lens on a Sinar P 4x5 camera.
This now-demolished bowling alley was part of the Treasure Island Naval Station, closed about 15 years earlier and then just starting to be redeveloped (a process that's been slowed by serious environmental contamination).
The composition emphasizes the simple lines of the structure and the isolated, rather desolate setting.
By now many, though not all, of the structures from the island's military era have been demolished (including the bowling alley in the photo). Environmental remediation is proceeding slowly.
A small community of mostly low-income families live in the island's housing, and some of the larger buildings are used as sound stages for film production and related industries. Fancier redevelopment is starting to accelerate.