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Frankly, there is nothing that captures the attention in this image. You must compose your pictures with more thought for the aesthetic.

Fred said: "Frankly, there is nothing that captures the attention in this image. You must compose your pictures with more thought for the aesthetic."

This is where I would disagree, on many levels in fact:

1-Fred and we should be more careful about how we use terms; "aesthetic" is one. My aesthetics may not be yours Fred... and vice versa. My aesthetics, Fred is definitely not yours and the reverse might be true.

2-As far as composition, obviously my opinion is that this photograph has been carefully composed (taken with a 4x5" camera on a tripod = plenty of time to do that). If you analyze it more than 2 seconds you may come to the conclusion that it is compositionally balanced and that the composition is there to foster meaning and an aesthetics linked to meaning.

3-By the way aesthetics and composition are not always linked.

4-the image is about corporate violence (see the sign in the background of this corporate parking lot on Mt Read Blvd, Rochester NY. It was premonitory in fact: the boulevard crosses what is known as Kodak park and shows now even more empty parking lots).