At the bus stop

More old stuff. This one was taken in 2007, and never post-produced.

Sometimes it helps to leave images there and look at them with fresh

eyes. Thanks for all the comments and critiques. L.

sure is. I keep going back to them. Just the two of them, how rare.

I do the same, the thing is - if you try to process and crop and adjust the image right after the shooting in many cases you still feel emotional about the scene that did fit and also didn't fit into frame you captured, and how you did it and what you did before and after, you have emotions that can't be seen in the photo and that, in many cases, doesn't help. When some time passes you can evaluate the same photo given only what is shown there...

This is a nice one, was well worth going back to it!

Thats a reallly great shot. I love the street shots with posters and window ellements that interact with the people and this does it perfect. Would be interesting to get a reall pritty lady there with eye turning outfit as well. The subject needs the back to us to make it really work. Super shot. I must look try more street shots. Regards Carl

But 'street photos' don't have to 'mean' anything, other than be an exercise in something observed that is 'interesting, and indeed this is most interesting.

 

One might project into it a story about male dominance or attractiveness and female rejection, or one might not.

 

It just doesn't matter.

 

It just is an attractive image, in part because of its (1) symmetry and (2) its broken symmetry -- symmetry attempted but not achieved -- which may be its charm -- his bulk and her bulk and other slightly or somewhat mismatched partial symmetries, as well as opposites (he faces the camera; she doesn't).

 

One can look for complements - here his white cuffs and shirt/her white pedal pusher pants and shoes . . . . etc., and those are complementary.

 

There are vertical lines on the left, apparently outlining windows, and on the right in the sunlight (opposites -- shade and sunlight) are complementary vertical posts for restricting parking above the curb - again partial symmetry, which adds to the 'look and charm of this photo, and yet doesn't hit one of over the head with too much that's obvious.

 

In a way, to 'understand' this photo may both be impossible, as it is somehow incapable of complete analysis and at the same time rather easy -- one look and we know we 'like it'.

 

Sometimes life is like that; things we know we like sometimes can't easily be dissected.

 

It can be that way with relationships at times. How many times have we heard of others' relationships 'we don't see what 'he/she' sees in him/her!' One doesn't have to 'understand.

 

One only has to 'feel' and this photo 'feels good'.

 

I've pointed out a few things that stand out in analysis, but one cannot reconstruct a photo based on my analysis -- only try to help understand the already achieved strength of this particular photo.

 

I guess in that sense, its strength is somehow 'organic' and thus transcendent.

 

John (Crosley)

 

(no tit for tat either for your analysing my photo elsewhere; I just happened to take a look and am drawn by this -- and a number of others of yours I had not seen.)

 

jc