lonely bench...

I don't actually know what i should think of this one. Background

was reaaly insignificant so I took it off because I wanted to

underline the bricks lines towards the bench. I won't get mad if you

don't like it...

simple and direct. well done.

Hi Cristina,

Very good detail,very nice composition.very simple and clear.Love it all.:)

molto bella,immagine pulita,qui hai dimostrato di avere l'occhio del fotografo...grande!

Semplice immagine e ottima profona prospettiva!

Christina- this looks like the bench is sitting at the edge of the world, nice rounded foreground. I like the dramatic effect, something very different. The angles of the brick lead me right to the bench, think I'll take nap!

so simple and so good!

 

allon.

I liked it somehow, but i really wouldn't expect so many of you would like it that too. I was so mad when I took this picture that the background looked so poor... and finally thanks to PN people and their work I got the idea of putting black instead. Jayme you are right about the "sitting at the end of the world" I should have thought myself as the title...But I guess I was late...

Christina , well done. Max Zappa.

Simplistic solitude with a sophisticated design. Great photo.

Ottima composizione!!

Fantastic composition Cristina.

It looks like these stones are pretty new, so clean. The bench is older and the dark background give this place a kind of mystery look. Your composition and the frame around it are well done. In a word a very fine picture.

Bravo Cristina, very good work.

Even better if there was just one living person in Milano who, on that poor lonely seat, would sit and reads the paper, or have a nap, or eats a ....most critics want to go and sit there to put some life into the pix..

next time Thomas, I'll ask somebody to read a newspaper there. In this folder there is another shot the way you may like it... if you want have a look.

grande occhio fotografico

 

brava

Yes, I liked that shot, Cristina, my only comment would be that if u moved the camera a little to the left, then the bright grass patch behind the trees, where the Italians play cricket, would be minimised, with less distraction..

Complimenti per l'ottima composizione fotografica

I really like the shot too. I'm amazed not just by the simple beauty and design of the shot but the fact that by this point there is not one rating below six. Even the best of the best get a rating below six. This has obviously hit a chord. Obviously well done!

Pity the digital.nikon doesnt give us any details or colors of the old? wood bench, nor texture of the newer? tiles..That would have been an interesting contrast... now they both seem to be, well, same color, material, age and texture...weakening an otherwise strict and balanced, albeit a little lifeless, composition.

The monochromaticity of this color image is what gives the photo its impact together with the dark background. Eloquent imaging of ordinary subjects is what makes photography so rewarding. best - Gary

Really great picture - bravo! (By the way, thanks for your interesting comment on one of my pictures of Egypt :)

I like this contrast of the bench against the background and the pattern of the pavement. IMO a pigeon would have enhanced the sense of loneliness.

I like the space effect and I agree with Jayme´s comment. Good work.