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Indecision


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The caption is more to do with the footprints all over the place. Thank you

for your constructive comments.

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Nice street photo, I like the footprints in the snow, showing at one time many people walked here and now there are none, that's only my intrepretation. Well done.    Best regards, Robert

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The beauty of photography is that it allows interpretations...for me, "Indecision" was just a name to make up a story given what was captured. It could easily have been "Walk Away" or something else. I saw the footprints one day and went back the next day to shoot it. Thanks for your interest in this photo.

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Samrat, very good composition & tones. The moral of the image appears to me footprints on snow, is just like footprints on sand, it do not last.The passer-by adds life to the image.

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Sometimes there are just times when things 'fall into place', and they only need an 'accent' to make them better.

Here it is obvious that from your vantage you saw something, the square above and the reverse 'C' curve leading our eye to the far edge of the frame away from it, and it was appealing.

Never underestimate 'appealing' for one must goes with one's gut, and anything that helps train one's 'gut' to recognize a scene 'on the street' in whatever way is helpful.

This scene might have been one way with the footsteps recorded in the snow, another if there had been ice or fresh fallen snow there (only) and black around for contrast.  The darkness around is needed to define the square, I think, at least as you've presented it.

This is a study in geometry with white and black contrasting (with shades of gray, of course).

The man is caught in a very good place nearly halfway between the tree and ledge on the far walkway and thus is the 'accent' I alluded to above; his placement is most helpful to give this photo life and a sense of proportion or scale.

Like some have mentioned, and I agree in my own way, it's not so much what you call a photo like this, so long as others understand it's not a picture of something so much as your grabbing a piece of harmony from the universe's disharmony -- from the chaos around us -- and preserving it for us to admire the view from Samrat's eyes.

And you have done that quite capably here. 

I'd increase the brightness ever so of the far walkway and try to contrast the man a little more, I think, but just ever so; shadows are meant to be dark and so are darker areas, to I leave it to the artist; I speak for my personal views only, and I'm not wedded to them. 

I only know what I like when I work on something in Photoshop (or other image editing progam) and then test 'possibilities', and that educates me many times.

Best and thanks for bring this fine work to my attention.

It's quite mature.

john

John (Crosley)

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I think this is one of your bests. Wonderful game with geometric lines and curves. Great tonal range. On the critical side, the front rail in the middle disturbs my attention a bit. But, on the street scenes, you need to keep some disturbances, sometimes. Best wishes. Jayantidi

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