LIMITED PARKING

Securely tethered to a small tree, surrounded by a bed of flowers

with a backdrop of windows & wall this bike finds itself in the best

available parking comments welcome

nice colors! i like the soft brick in the back, really makes the tree and flowers pop out. lighting is pretty good too...perhaps could have been a different time of day, as it's a little blue from shadows or overcast, but that's very minor.

 

compositionally it could use a tweak. first off, it's a "bulls eye". the subject is right in the center. my eye doesn't want to wander around and explore the picture, because the big payoff is too easy.

 

also, i'm not totally convinced this picture is about the bike. it's so small in the image. it really should fill the frame, make the image ABOUT the bike. if you were retaking the shot, use a zoom to get the image closer, leave some flowers in down the bottom but make them out of focus using a wider aperture. you probalby would want to get down low to do this. frame it perhaps more like the attached image. i've faked the foreground flower blur in photoshop, but you get the idea. note the bike isn't in the center, neither is the strong vertical line of the tree trunk. this makes it clearer that it's about the bike parked against the tree, but the pretty elements are still retained in the shot.

Great picture. I like the flowers in the front and the contrast with the bricks and windows in the background. The bike could be a little more prominent but this works as well. I can not see anything I would change. Good color and contrast. Thanks for sharing.

Very nice continental feeling in this image Richard, well seen.

 

Regards, Bill