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By cutting off the letterforms I am hoping to make them more enigmatic

and alchemical, their meanings lost or transformed. Or maybe it's

just a random snapshot of the side of a rusty boxcar, you tell me.

All comments welcome.

I like the composition and colors alot. This is not a random shapshot to me...

What is this? I think you aught to try a little harder.

There seems to be quite a lot of meaning to this shot. There's something organic about this one, even through all the metal. I'm highly interested in abstract art shots, and this photo is a great example.

It's funny what some people call art. I don't see the motivation behind this.

Dave, as my request for critique says, my original motivation for taking this photo was typographical. But if you insist that a photo must work for a living, maybe you'll be less disapproving of this one's lifestyle if I tell you that it makes a fine computer background screen -- I've been using it on my laptop since I shot it and haven't grown tired of it yet.

To me no visual tension. Textures can be nice to look at but I still want my eye to be directed by the composition. With this one my eyes wander around aimlessly. I can see by the above comments each person sees differently and has different expectations of an image. You'll never please us all, so always please yourself.

I like it a lot. I like the composition and enjoy the absence of a precise focal point. The white characters, bolts and holes create a nice rhythm.

David, I like patterns as sole subjects of photos, so I like this one too. I don't think that the absence of perspective or volume is a flaw; actually, I feel this is its strong point. Great eye.

interesting composition--cutting the numerals is a nice touch & lends a certain tension. I could see this blown up & nicely framed embelishing any wall-- I wonder do the reds show more on the original?

Mark -- what do you mean by "the original" for a digital photo? It's darker and a little less orange than I would have gotten by using the default raw conversion settings, if that's what you mean, but I didn't deliberately adjust the saturation.

"original" being the uncompressed photo; in my own experience sometimes my (compressed)uploads seem quite a bit darker.

 

Perhaps this is a color space issue? I upload the images as untagged sRGB and they look the same when uploaded as they do on my own computer.

David, I'm sure you're right--I'm not too savvy with photo software etc. Also, now that I'm looking at this photo on a different monitor, the color is much better. (sorry to be filling space here on the comments section)

Average shot. 4/4

Hey Mark, don't apologize. The comments are much more important to me than the ratings. Thanks to all of you for leaving them.