Waiting For The Train

Hi Jack, brilliant picture, this (pole/column) in the middle makes this picture unique, it has 2 sites, in the same place, yesssssss I love it

 

-with love Els

"Where are you?"

 

"i am at the train station. Where are you?"

Someone Else - I'm not surprised that you like this picture since I'm well aware of your active imagination and original photography.

 

Dennis - What's up, Bro? I don't own one of those things, I refuse to limit my world to a 2" square. Does that make me hopelessly out of touch?

That's not the thing that makes you hopefully out of touch my friend.

Nice one...duality. You don't own a mobile phone? Oh, the horror! Actually, I quite often walk around capturing people with their mobiles as a bit of a theme. I'll collect enough of them one day to show as a work...it's an interesting subject to me...the social conditioning, everyone with their heads in their phones....and it's gonna get a lot worse. The times they are a changin.

The centered pole is very symbolic of their world because despite all their communications gadgetery they are increasingly disconnected from real life while theirs has become a virtual life more than anything else. Their train is leaving, will they be in time to catch it? That's the real question isn't it?

 

Yours is a very good observation. Shame your photo lacks sharpness.

It has to be seen large in order to see details. The focus was on the pole and not on the people, that imo gives them the general anonymity of waiting in a train station, also by being nearly silhouettes due to the backlight., what "connect " them is the cell phone "epidemic"....It is an interesting composition that has a message.

and yet those little shifts of balance- so similar to the delicate flying of a butterfly...Someone, somewhere, will look at this photograph and see his Doppelgänger awaiting for a ghost train... Thank you for sharing, Giuseppe

A counter mirror - never seen before!

Interesting observation by Daily & others,Jack. World is becoming small ,"2" square", to most of us.

I like the compo and the subject is so representative of our society where the gadgetry is taking huge importance to lots of people for reasons I don't seem to understand fully....I have seen lately two people facing each other at a bar's table each with a mobile phone and separated phone conversation...for a long while...unluckily for me I had no camera...

Yeah, I know what you mean. Those things are called Keitai over here and I refer to these people as "Keitai slaves". Never have so many been busy communicating so little.