Traffic Lights

finally got something interesting reflected in granite.

That's quite a change with respect to the other reflections of yours...

 

First and foremost, I like the canvas -shall we call like that?- on which you've assembled this. Warm colours and colder hues in all possible mixes... stripes, lines, dots. Without any reflection whatsoever that by itself would have a very interesting nature to stare at.

 

What I like the most is the lower part of the image. Sort of police ID shot... we have the face of the traffic light on the right (with its red spot having a great visual weight. That's the first thing I look at with the picture in front and a corner element in my looping around the image -see later.) and the side to the left...

 

At a first sight, all this action to the bottom seem slightly unrelated from the rest of the image, but then -even though I have to look a while to the image for this effect to kick in- the pattern of horizontal lines slowly lifts my eye to the reflection of the lamp post, and follows its curvature, to fall down to the brown sector of the lights... and start the looop again.

Could you possibly have squeezed any more essential parts into this shot? You've got the textured upper left, shadows and warm colors lower left... some form of an everyday object in three of the four quadrants, your trademark warped reality of reflection... symmetry and a-symmetry. nd all that rolled into one? Wow. Let's see if this thingy will accept a couple of 7's. This may not be everbody's idea of a great shot but for me it's a masterpiece without exaggeration

by the way... impossible to tell what scale this is. Roughly how big was this section of wall?

This isn't exactly a dramatic image, so I'm pleased that you both had a positive reaction. This is a full frame shot at the 300mm end of my 100-300 zoom on my D200, but because I can't give you a distance measurement, the whole concept of scale is sort of elusive. I'll say 20 feet, but the distance between the surface and subject is actually more important and I never even turned around to see what the original scene looked like. Some of these compositions are easier to deconstruct than others, even when you're right there looking at it.

This is a great abstract, well seen and perfectly composed.

Original and artistic, Carl.... I like it very much!

I love this one. I haven't commented much on your portfolio but I've been skulking around for weeks and I keep coming back to this one. It seems so simple, but there is so much to it. The best (and most difficult) kind of photography.

Carl...this is my kind of picture. Geometric, abstract,mysterious. 7/7

Thank you, Linda.

 

I finally got around to printing photography business cards recently. This one was selected as the background, mostly because I could put text in the upper left rectangle.