Madison Avenue

As anybody who's familiar with my work knows, I take a lot of

pictures of the ground. I'm creating a whole series

called "downcasting" that consists of these kinds of images. This

one is a lot more subtle and abstract than most, so I figure the

ratings won't be great. If you look for more than 1/4 second,

though, you'll see the image has some things going on. Thanks for

any ratings/comments.

Intriguing composition. I love urban abstracts like this, partly because I have trouble making them myself. This is interesting.

It is interesting, Beau - good light and textures - but not I think as strong as some of the others in the sequence, i.e. maybe strong enough to be shown next to them, but not strong enough to stand by itself.

I really admire the fact you can turn the mundane into something spectacular.

Actually, this improves on second viewing, and as one thinks about how you must have been holding the camera in order to make it. In other words, it's a good example of why the Lenswork mantra, 'A good photograph is one that makes the viewer so aware of the subject that they are unaware of the print' is patently wrong. Good photographs always insome way thematize their own construction. The trick is not to do it in a vulgar way (using extreme wide-angles, etc.).