In the visitor center at Tilden Regional Park (Berkeley) is a display on the history of the Bay Area, which includes an old brass telescope set up so that when you look in it, you see a representation of what the early Spanish explorers might have seen.
This shot includes technology of two eras, a perspective on how one group viewed another's technology, and evokes memories of their (mostly) tragic confluence.
My dad wrote these notes. I had the idea for and took the picture.
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I'm not really sure how to critique this... you have photographed someone else's art, but you have added your own twist... I would have rather seen a subject that you created... - setzler