My Favorite Idiot-Proof Sign
Broad Street Market Sign
Third and Verbeke Streets
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
submitted by: “wendyvee”
I stopped at both the Broad Street Market and the Midtown Scholar Bookstore today (and posts about each will follow soon); but this post features the Broad Street Market’s sign (taken from the balcony of the Midtown Scholar). This is my favorite sign in Harrisburg. Not only is the BSM sign a super-cool symbol of the market; it is also, perhaps, the most idiot-proof sign to photograph that has ever existed.
Though I try conscientiously, I regularly and spectacularly, FAIL at taking pictures. Thank goodness for digital or I would be blowing through film and crying myself to sleep at night. I can’t even blame my semi-horrible Nikon Coolpix (a temporary replacement for my stolen Canon … which in all honesty was an equally substandard point and shoot … but I loved that camera nonetheless). Blaming the camera is unfair because I know people who could publish a coffee table book with photos that they shot with grocerystore disposables. Ultimately, I just don’t have a natural knack for composition and I seem to have the steadiness of hand that one might expect of someone with a serious case of delirious tremors.
This far from award-winning image (a good photographer would have avoided the stop light peeking out from the right side of the frame, noticed that the blue van making the left-hand turn would be a distraction, and would have mitigated the amount of visible wires) but I think it does illustrate that the Broad Street Market sign is a “super model” of signs … it simply refuses to be unphotogenic no matter the oaf behind the lens.
The sign is great but the first I thought was what a cool angle on the stoplight. It’s so close it’s surreal and the pic is rather artistic.
Well, thank you, Gunnar! I myself waver on the stoplight. Initially, I thought it was kinda cool too 🙂