Soft and Wet

Please view large. Uncommon to have snow in Vancouver, BC? I

didn't allow the soaking I took on a long morning walk in Stanley

Park to dampen my spirits. The soft dreariness in this image is what

intrigues me. I kept the line of boats clear and sharp, but slightly

reduced the clarity on the buildings and sky. Any spots or streaks

are clumps of wet falling snow. I'd like you to comment on how the

image works for you. As in all of my uploads to PN lately, the color

got somewhat screwed up during upload. Thanks in advance for

your time, interest, and connection.

This is a distant grayscape of any city by the water.  I could make an educated guess that those are boats in the foreground.  I think you need a more intimate view of at least some of these components, perhaps with others that fade into the distant fog, hopefully with snow, to better capture your experience in a photograph.  My $0.02.

I know Bellingham, WA, got a few inches of snow; this is probably a part of that same system.

Hi Stephen,  Thanks for the $.02.  I appreciate your visit.  I understand that the image could be more interesting, yet I was there when I was, and this is what I saw.  While it is typical perhaps, I felt that the horizontal format and line of reflected buildings offered and artistic view.  Good to hear from you.  Larry

I get the impression of 2 worlds co-existing, or maybe even 2 dimensions, past and present appearing in the same time zone.

The foreground is something that I feel would have gone unchanged for many years, the boats and old waterfront fisherman's shacks that line the waterside. 

Whilst by contrast the busy metropolis of buildings in the background appear to have grown out of the fog and represents an ever changing skyline where nothing is permanent. 

Perhaps not the most attractive of photographs in a purely aesthetic sense, but I can fully understand why you were compelled to take it. It has a ghostly quality and maybe a post apocalypse feel about it.

I wouldn't want to hang this one on my wall, but it an image I can study at length and enjoy musing about it's very different characteristics.

Very well done Larry! 

Best Regards 

Alf 

Alf,  Thanks for ringing in on this image.  I wouldn't hang this on the wall either, but I had to take it because of the unusual weather conditions in Vancouver at the time.  Also, I was out for a walk and had a camera in my pocket, eager to memorialize this dreary trip with something.  So i cam up with a few dreary shots.  Thanks again, Alf.   Larry