DATE: Monday, July 21, 1997                 TAG: 9707180799

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PORTSMOUTH'S HIGH STREET IN COOLER DAYS

If you have been suffering lately from the heat, causing you to work

your air-conditioning overtime, you might gain temporary relief from

contemplating this evocatively cooling photograph of Portsmouth's

High Street looking westward. This exquisitely composed picture,

shot by Mike Williams at the height of a snowstorm that blanketed

Hampton Roads on Feb. 24, 1989, is notable for its stark

eagle-topped street lamps interspersed with bare crape myrtle

boughs, and the lone pedestrian making his uncertain way to a warmer

destination. Take note of how Williams successfully blended the

receding High Street buildings into a nebulous blur over which the

snow-battered spire of St. Paul's Catholic Church was almost lost in

the swirling snowflakes.

- George Tucker

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