The License Plate Guy

Your photos are always interesting. I enjoy reading all the comments. Like Ellen, I'm not much of a writer but do enjoy viewing.

As I approach a major birthday (and get closer and closer to yours) I just don't feel or act my age.

 

Yours is the 25th comment on this 'little' photo, posted in a 'minor' folder, just as an illustration of something posted primarily for personal reasons (which will go unwritten).

 

Imagine my surprise when this folder has drawn such attention -- after all I only spent half a day in Nevada to take these photos (and a few others I will some day get around to posting).

 

If anybody ever tells you 'you can't teach an old dog new tricks', first take them to your fine portfolio, then drag them over to mine, and sneer a little at them, menacingly a little, and maybe snarl for good measure, just to get their attention.

 

After all, you may note, I GAVE UP photography for over 30 years, except for an occasional photo here and there 'just to prove I could take a photo', and otherwise not caring to try, as photography was always 'hot sweaty work' that almost gave me headaches it required so much concentration.

 

Now it's just the opposite, a great joy in my life.

 

Go figure.

 

I think the difference is the Photo.net audience and the great feedback opportunities it gives the photographer. I thrive in a climate like this.

 

Don't you.

 

And doesn't it make you really forget your age?

 

John (Crosley)

 

(and no, I'm not writing my age here, but if you e-mail me . . .)

 

JC

hey John, great image, I like the idea, the take from below, use of WA . I am a picky one as far as the compo, I am attracted to the empty right upper corner... Maybe You can frame the image at least with a thin dark frame. cheers Jana

I don't use 'frames' preferring that each image stand on its own, but when I will consider frames, after I learn how, I will consider your advice.

 

And I like that you always offer some small bit of advice with your observations -- it is very helpful and for which I thank you. You have a good eye for which you should be proud, and it's in the finest PN tradition.

 

I try to do the same thing, but many don't and maybe we're the candle holders.

 

Let there be light.

 

Glad you liked the capture; it seems to have universal appeal. I hardly was aware of any empty space here until you mentioned it.

 

My rule: Fill the frame with interesting stuff and crop all the uninteresting stuff out in the camera, leaving only interesting photos. I fail all the time, with just a few keepers and the rest fill hard drives with lousy or failed photos as I hunted for the good ones.

 

Thanks for stopping by and commenting.

 

You are always welcome here.

 

John (Crosley)