june - just warming up An Alley in the City

Yellow has the power to hijack a photo.

Your image reminds me New York, a yellow taxi among skyscrapers

Many denizens inhabit this alley.  BNE is a regular visitor.

I suspect what appeals most to me is the variety of angles.  None of the objects, except perhaps the pipes in the foreground, have lines that run perpendicular with any of the rest.

I feel, this composition has several layers in it. On one side, it is the photo of an alley with a character, flanked by the bright yellow crate at the focal point. Then when I look closely, I see a repetition of the phrase BNE. It's placement in conjunction with the apparently (to me for sure) meaningless scribbles attracts even more attention to it, but at the end both (symbols and phrase) are equally enigmatic. I see this like a fractal, with several large scale structures inhabited by countless microstructures, like a colony of crabs or oysters on rocks.

"Yellow has the power to hijack a photo."

. . . and sometimes the power to make one.

--Lannie

a good testament to how powerful a single color can be to an image...it makes me think about what happens behind that alley and the messages that are left there...an unusual image fitting for a guy who seeks out the mysteries and interesting beauty of life...at least that's my take...regards....David

You always  find something interesting around you. The yellow  box  is  very good  in the almost grey environment. Excellent street shot.

Greeting to you,   Jack.

-Bela

Suddenly, picking up a pair of crimson and blue ice skate shoelaces, you found yourself in a blind alley. A Trap? An aluminum candy wrapper lay like a lottery ticket in front of a puckery patch of wet cement at your feet.

What appears to be a meaning less image at first started to take hold on me! Some how I came back to it several times and then I started to read your followers!

The image became an item for analyzing and food for thought in many ways.

Take good care never give up!

Warm regards from Miami.

Not only contrast colors catch the view but also so many drawings on the walls,our street today so as they are.

Jack,

  I enjoy your work because you never know what you are going to come up with.  Wonderful thought out image.  Take care, Patsy

NASA should arrest you and, ahem,  probe you to confirm that you are really one of us. After years of careful observation, I am beginning to suspect that what we see here on pnet is nothing more than a series of hieroglyphic coded dispatches to your home planet, and what appears to the naked eye as graffiti are your annotations added to dumb down the message to your predictably less astute superiors. 

Messages that could "Be Any" spacial code. The yellow basket really catches my attention and that makes we wonder if this is special factory that could drop finished products into it.