Second-hand Sunset No. 1

I have some shots of just the cityscape and once I get one worked up, I'll post one for you so you can take this in with out the emotional distraction of the bottom portion.

 

Thanks for your thoughts both emotional and cognitive they are always appreciated. I did specifically ask if the bottom portion aided or hindered so I am appreciative of your response.

Happy to help whenever I can, but Gordon, it may be a HIGHLY idiosyncratic response.

I've been looking at it for awhile now, and still can't get enough of it....No wonder you've been getting so many interesting comments about it. Personally, the more I look at it, the more I keep going back to that white plastic chair in the roof, I find it amazing, this picture being all that's been said already, and much more, that simple detail does it for me, I really cant explain it, it just gives it a different lecture.

Thanks for asking. I definitely value the foreground on this view: it's presence in terms of details and colors add interest, especially after detecting that white chair up the roof my thoughts as a virtual sitter-by start rolling: how would that scene be experienced by myself in real life? Without this foreground just another skyscraper scene, though very successful as such.

Thanks for your comment. I agree that chair does something for the shot. I think it maybe adds a human touch to the scene, just to know that somebody goes up on that roof to watch the city and perhaps the sunset. At the time of taking the photo the chair seemed less significant than it did viewing the scene afterwards.

Thanks for your response it helps to be able to ask the opinion of others and get a well considered answer. My gut feeling was that the foreground added to the image but I am just one person, so it is meaningful to have your thoughts.

... the foreground element enhances the abstract nature of the shot. That steam plume in the left third gives an organic element which sets off the abstract even more. Well done.

Thanks for stopping by and sharing your thoughts. Living out in the bush I do not get much opportunity to shoot architecture but this scene caught my eye while I was descending a stairway in the old Gladstone Hotel in Toronto. I was facing east and although the sky was already settling into night, the setting sun was bouncing off the faces of the bank towers downtown.

 

The lawn chair with its back to the camera, on the roof of the foreground building, gave me a smile when I imagined some tenant of that building enjoying similar sunsets.