It's pretty neat, actually. If you use Gemini's Nano Banana with a photo reference, it's pretty good at keeping most of the things that matter. I walk down 4th Street daily and that's pretty much what it looks like near Berry St.
And the thing I'm trying to remember is not, say, her athleisure or his white jacket. I'm trying to remember a couple with a dog with the man carrying a bag and a garbage grabber.
This notion of precision is actually an interesting thing to me. It's a question of what I'm trying to memorialize. Their clothes or their fitness or the colour of their dog doesn't matter so much.
You know, like some people object to statues of John Muir because he said some things like calling indigenous people "dirty and irregular" and stuff like that. But I think statues don't memorialize the man, they memorialize the symbolic man. The actual John Muir is dead, and we have his memetic descendant John Muir The Image. John Muir the image is a chalk drawing of John Muir the man, and the fact that the latter liked a dog, or hated boiled potatoes, or loved a woman, or whatever is irrelevant to me. I have taken this person, and flattened him on a canvas, and painted his acts on them as a guideline for myself. The rest of him is gone. And I like it that way.
I've had this as a draft post on the blog for a while so if you don't quite get what I'm saying about this accepted imprecision, it's probably because I haven't yet found a way to write this idea out in a clearer way.