When there´s no horizon [Quando não há horizonte]

I looked at the picture several times during the week trying to appreciate its feel but still it remains dull and boring. The only thing I appreciate is the similarity of the structures but that may be because of the architects running out of imagination rather than how the photo fills the frame.

 

I thing the editors ran out of imagination on selecting the POW.

Excellent photo. This photo, like so many others, either does something for the viewer or it doesn't. Different images evoke different responses depending on one's life experiences and personal tastes. This photo works for me so well because I grew up in New York and New Jersey, and spent so much time in such areas. I see so much more than just buildings.

For a quick viewing, this picture has a high risc

for beeing rated too low. When looking closer to it, you will find the value of this image.

Yes now doubt , thats a POW !!!

Without the POW explanation and commentary this would be just another of the millions of photos that have been taken of the urban landscape. I would be asking 'where was this shot? Why was this shot? What was the photographer trying to accomplish?'

 

Bottom line? If a photo needs a paragraph of explanation - from either the photographer or a contest judge - it is a failure as a photograph.

I like it because it is full of rectangular figures, and crowded with information, but empty of any sense of human activity. i would say it seems nearly abstract, but then the concrete aspect of an urban environment is that it sometimes has been made uninhabitable.

it reminds me of my first trip to NYC, where the environment from some viewpoints seems abiological. the sky can barely be seen. to someone who grew up in close proximity to trees, grass, and being able to see the horizon at any moment, the overdeveloped urban landscape can seem like a void. the film blade runner is set in a post-industrial future los angeles. the inhabitants are the people who were left behind. the worthy folks have left the nightmarish, dark, overdeveloped

artificial space for other colonies. any animals we see in the film are synthetic...an owl, and a snake. they were fabricated by humans.

 

i also like that fact that the image is small, because the subject is huge. it's an effective contrast.

 

i'm a little concerned that photos without an obvious 'wow' factor do not get fair appraisals.

i don't think of photography as entertainment.

I bet a photo of a well-centered model with breast implants would get higher ratings, at least from the male respondents.

 

This photo seems to be about the inherent lack of organization, and foresight of humans. We just go about our business in our little boxes, and build more boxes, with no regard or planning for the future. Eventually we wonder if building boxes is a good thing, and we find out, and admit much later, that it probably wasn't such a good idea. So, then we build some more.

 

Welcome to the future!

post-industrial future los angeles from blade runner

i think this is a great example of a shot that might initially seem to be an easy one, but which in fact needs a lot of inspiration and artistic talent to pull off. to me this looks like one of the classic photos that would be excellent framed on the wall of a nice room.

My major problem is: I don't see any real justification to select this as a POW... It is decently taken, for sure, but talking about an abstract is already quite wrong in my opinion...

 

I mean this is a photo of a city, taken from a good angle, but I miss the original and artistic elaboration by the photographer. Pictures like this one are thousands - just not this particular city, that's all...

 

I would have found much more interesting to select a certain area of this image and to actually turn it into a real abstract.

Very nice photo. I especially like the composition. You show old building with newer ones at the background. The scene looks really like a dead metropolis. The exposure is great, the detail is all there. I'm also interested in urban landscape, your photo inspires me a lot, thanks!

Actually, "artistic elaboration" dissapears when it works. It works.