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Infrabaltzing on the way to the Cohost wake

Black and white infrared wide angle photo of a city block in Oakland featuring the boarded and graffiti'd Startlite Child Development Center

Yesterday was the Bay Area Cohost Wake. Several of these have been held in various locations to celebrate the life and death of the internet's favorite fourth website. (My Cohost farewell post.) On the way I grabbed a few photos of targets of opportunity, despite the brutal heat.

(Some of my photo friends call wandering about photographing buildings and structural features "baltzing" in reference to Lewis Baltz, the New Topographics photographer with the most fun surname.)

Black and white infrared photo of a metal sculpture depicting a tree. It is composed of many flat metal pieces assembled together and stands in front of a glass office building.
Reflector
Black and white infrared photo of a 3-4 story cuboid building with a flagpole on top. The side of the building is illuminated with many overlapping circular/oblong pools of light, creating a somewhat spirographic effect. The US flag on the building appears as almost featureless
Reflectee

These buildings were extremely fun. I did not do the math to make sure, but I assume the angular tree scultpure is contributing something to the spirographic riot of light being reflected onto the building opposite. 

Black and white infrared photograph of a very large tree branch that has been broken off of a huge tree
An empty parking lot surrounded by three tall buildings in deep shade. A tree can be seen peeking around the corner of one building.
Black and white infrared photo of a small parking lot amongst small apartment buildings, framed by bushes, trees, and a utility wire crossing the sky above a parked car.
Black and white infrared photograph of a large US flag displayed from the second floor balcony of an apartment. The flag's most visible features are creases.

In addition to these, I also got an IRChrome shot of my new favorite thing to see in color infrared: some astroturf. 

A color infrared photograph of a small L-shaped patch of astroturf with a bike parked on it, surrounded by live plants which appear pink.