Air bag ped, Volvo

One of many to come!

Gas filling ped

What's ped up to. Getting some gas for his moped? No wait, he's an anarchist blowing up a gas station.

Please! No peds in tunnel

Anchorage life, Peds on the go in Spenard

It's a colorful fun life for peds on the corner of Benson and Spenard Anchorage.

Elevator

Wet floor, piso mojado 3

Caution, cuidado, attention

wetfloorped

He's going to break something.

Wet floor, piso mojado

Ped attending the children ped

Odd circle details. Downtown Portland, Oregon Target.

Freakin' ped riding a horse, wearing a cape, reading the bible ped!

Oh and it doubles as a bike rack. And how often to you see non-print sculpted peds?

Duty ped gets doody

Forklift peds

Angular verses round

Ok, The Home Depot Anchorage Alaska! Make up your mind. Angular ped or curvey ped?

Ladder ped

unique stylization

Zombie ped

Bernal Heights, San Francisco
#vernacularped, #quasiped

Camera icon street signs

In Alaska, the section of the Seward Highway, south of Anchorage, where it runs along the Turnagain Arm is a breath taking drive: mountain grandeur, forests, dynamic coastline. There are a lot of scenic sights. To aid the tourists, pull-offs are designated with camera symbols. These symbols are an interesting study in how highway departments have represented cameras iconographically.
 

This is an old one, maybe dating to the 1970s? The camera is an older, view-finder model. 

Then there is this snappy image of a professional SLR camera, note the trapizoidal view finder area above the lense and the shutter timer on the left. This image is suggestive of classic quality Japanese cameras of the 70s/80s: Canon AE-1, Pentax ME and in particular the Nikon FM/FE

In other sections a more ped-like simplified image is used:

Is this a more amateur-friendly camera? Too me the image is not as compelling as either of the first two. Maybe it's newer and it presages digital cameras? A DSLR? The presense of film winders on the top of the camera suggests it still lingers in the film era.

Of course this begs the question: What is the relevant image now? For most people the camera is dead. It was superseded by the smartphone. Maybe we should have just stuck to the binocular image all along?

Coffee

A-board sign PSU campus, Portland, OR
#merchped

Redundant ped much?

One smelly pit toilet, nine stinking peds! Ped pollution
#toiletped

barrel-chested ped, classic, platonic ped

Behold! Barrel-chested ped, at least that's what I call him/her. Barrel-chested ped is also known as The Walking Man and the profile person. You can't have a ped blog without this image. More to come. Because, I know, I know, you can't get enough!

FED PED, peds of the Boeing 737-900 er

 escape ped

 FED ped

call button ped

#travelped

Run, ped, run!

#dangerped

Peligro ped

#dangerped Costco

Seattle tarmac

Tarmac walking ped

Ped, do not enter

Too late. We're going there. Welcome to the world.