W. Fisher Street, Salisbury, North Carolina (Please view LARGE)

URBAN LANDSCAPE: Do you see a desert here, or you do see somethingelse? Comments welcome.

--Lannie

Hi Lannie,

An excellent presentation my friend.

Well shot technically.

Best Regards, Mike

Good one, Lannie, kind of a picture of The American Dream when it still had proportion and was at least somewhat manageable. Really nice clean lines and a good sense of scale. I prefer this version to the more sepia-toned one, the documentary reality of the now to the more nostalgic feeling of the other.

I don't know why, but this one has a kind of "Twilight Zone" feel to me. Part of it is the Wachovia sign that is so prominent. (I have had a private joke that their subliminal message is "We'll watch over ya"). This feeling is more prominent when viewed smaller. Somehow, in the large view, the traffic is more pronounced and it doesn't seem as apocalyptic.

All that said, I like the mood. And, I prefer this one to the sepia toned one as well.

Nice, Lannie!

Thanks, gentle people.

 

Amy, I do know what you mean about the apocalyptic effect.  One could almost believe that this is a scene from after a nuclear holocaust, one which has devastated larger cities but left small ones like this intact in terms of physical infrastructure--but people are no longer to be found, although the grass is not yet popping up in the cracks in the streets.

 

As for the bank (still there, but the sign reads "Wells Fargo"), I remember seeing "Wachovia" for the first time from a college choral tour bus in 1964 in Winston-Salem, and I also remember wondering at the time whether it was pronounced "Watch over ya."

 

--Lannie

With apologies . . . this image also is far from ordinary.  I do find the sepia version more atmospheric.