new -- color & b&w 'Connecting Airport Terminals' (B&W ed.)

Two women with their Roll-a-Board suitcases and one man with his laptop open and

working away walking in the opposite direction set against a latticework background

comprise this study in symmetry in a major terminal connector at one of the world's

largest and busiest airports. Your ratings, critiques and observations are invited and

most welcome. If you rate or critique harshly or very critically or wish to make a

remark, please submit a helpful and constructive comment; please share your

photographic knowledge to help improve my photography. Thanks! Enjoy! john

Elegant work, finely timed - with luck possibly aiding your patience.

neat photo

This is working well for you, all that you mentioned in your tutorial and then some.

Perfect timing, spaced nicely, great back drop. I like how the floor is worn from pedestrian traffic, going from shinny to dull and repeating it self. The ladies are in the same stride.

Right down to the freakin curves of the escalators

Striking! And beautifully executed, and right place at right time...not luck, skill. 

well captured b&w.

'Elegant work' -- such high praise.

Like the great hitter who called his shot, then hit the home run, I was in a wheelchair when I shot this and told my wheelchair pusher after we missed a flight and waited for the next one and passed this scene; 'watch, I'll take a world class shot!' and currently I rank this among my best ever in terms of non-emotive and compositional classics.  It's also a stunner -- even more so -- in color.

Yes, there's certainly an element of luck in it, but I also got 12-14 other shots that were postworthy -- none as striking as this (and a near identical shot, both of which  also shine in color and are among my best ever), but they are imminently worthwhile and are an attribute to the skills I showcased in my presentation 'Photographers Watch Your Background'.  Just find a good background and wait a little bit -- here not long.

Thanks for the wonderful comment; pardon the delay as  I fought a cold.

john

John (Crosley)

Neat comment.

Thanks.

john

John (Crosley)

I see you appear to be a reader of my never finished book-length tutorial on Photographers Watch Your Background (or some such), and of course this fits the bill.

Your comment deserves no explication from me; only a thanks for skilled observance and thanks and a pointer to other viewers to read it to help understand this photo. 

Thanks.

john

John (Crosley)

Thanks for the high compliments.

As to luck and skill.

There's both. If you read above, you'll see I called to my observer that I would take a 'world class shot' in the 13 minutes available to us, and I did, with the color being the stronger photo, but this being pretty damn good and also among my best ever for graphic shots.

Luck favors the well prepared; I saw this background and knew it had the possibility, and just staked it out for 13 or so minutes with an equal number of 'keeper' shots, but this one 'take the cake' (along with a near twin).

Thanks for sharing your views; it's a kindness I feel hardly deserving of.

john

John (Crosley)

Thank you for the compliment.

What may seem like a 'little effort' really takes time and trouble and expresses usually quite some striking affect of a viewer's response to a photo, and I don't forget that.

Thank you again.

john

John (Crosley)