I drove to the city of Pula yesterday. It's the nearest city, only about ten kilometers from where I live. That's why I published quite a few posts about it so far. It's a small city with only about 60,000 inhabitants, but there is often something new to focus on and photograph, and when there isn't, one can always find a new way to approach the old stuff.
In today's post, I'll show you a few buildings and vistas that caught my attention on a two or three-hundred-meter-long walk from the parking place to the apartment of a friend I came to visit.
The thing presented in this opening photograph is a brand-new addition to the city. I never photographed it before. It's a Rotary Garage, a parking solution I didn't know existed before seeing it yesterday, around two o'clock in the afternoon.
It's an interesting construction that allows these metallic parking places to rotate, or go up and down, or both, if I understood correctly, and it's all automated. It involves scanning the registration plates, thermal cameras that can detect a person accidentally or purposely stuck in the vehicle situated somewhere in the construction made for cars only, not for people, and other crazy stuff I don't think about when I'm about to leave my car somewhere in the city.
Here you can see the suburban fields behind the construction. This part of the suburb is very close to the center. Maybe it can't be defined as suburbia at all, it just feels like suburbia becouse of the combination of buildings of a certain type and the agricultural fields.
Mark the nice similarity between the color of the garage and the reddish soil of this part of Istria.
In the following shot ...
... you can see the conventional, primitive parking lot in which I left the car. From there, I photographed the Rotary Garage that opened the post. The parking area is surrounded by pretty large buildings built a decade or so ago. They are still mostly empty. A few small businesses can be seen on the ground floor, but there are no traces of human activity in the windows and balconies. If people do live here, they are very good at hiding.
If you take a good look at the above photograph, you'll easily notice a yellow building in the center of the frame. Can you see it? Ok, good ...
... here I zoomed in to bring closer those distant windows and balconies.
The cluster of buildings near the parking lot is shaped more or less as a half circle with something that looks like a little round plaza in the midlle.
It's a bit more interesting than the usual modern architecture in this part of the city.
Here you can see a cluster of buildings I photographed about a hundred meters further on my way to the center of Pula. One of them is still a work in progress.
This is the relatively large main road that leads to the center. It's a good spot from which to take a wide shot that emphasizes the perspective.
Just out of the frame, behind the wall shown near the left edge of the picture ...
...there is a nice group of family homes with a pretty large yard that ends with an embankment and the wall that separates them from the road. The place looks like a separate little neighborhood, very different from everything that surrounds it.
In this photograph, I zoomed in on the buildings further down the road that leads to the old town, the historic center of Pula. You can see some older buildings, some newer ones, and a traffic sign as well. It's a nice urban mix that conveys the atmosphere of a sunny Easter afternoon, when the streets are mostly empty becouse the people are at home or enjoying nature somewhere out of the city.
I zoomed in even more in this shot. There is a bigger emphasis on straight lines in this composition.
The last photograph was taken in the center. This little journey ends right here.
