The Passing Scene

Oh, I like this!  This is one of those cases where the tilt actually enhances the image--but that sky, that sky, and that light off the sidewalk!

 

--Lannie

I feel like I'm in a straitjacket when I put myself into this scene.  Everything is confining, and in a forceful way - confinement inside a vehicle, by road markings, by the white wall, even by the overcast sky.  It's a sorry state to be in, one of metal, concrete, and asphalt, with the only sign of life that bit of ragged hedge and the single clenched hand.  It's so totally impersonal, cold, hard, inorganic, and unwelcoming.  Even the sky seems to be crying.

By the way, I like your title for your September folder.

Thanks for the comments. When a picture gets a reaction such as this one seems to have (even if its not particularly pleasant) you have to count it a success. The worst thing is a pleasant picture that just lies there ignored.

Jack, it is a successful photograph for me because it invoked a feeling or emotion.  I hope you didn't take my comment as being negative.  Another bad thing is an unpleasant picture that just lies there ignored.

No, not at all. It's a picture that certainlywouldn't entice me to visit the scene. I just like the way it's put together for all its ugliness. And believe me, the Japanese are right up with the best of them when it comes to "uglifying" the suburban countryside.

I am thinking that every day we passed scenes like this on our way and sometime we don't see that what we have to do and our list of problems.I like how the sky,cloud look seems that there under cloud is rain,is happen to have this view.

ps.So good to have back this old PN version,was a bad experience few days and lot of nervousness when page open slow,very slow,no find friends,pages,folders,notifications, and other more.As I comment in help page I like good new thins to go step by step on a better presentation but this wasn't.

I have to agree Jack, the viewer could just blow past this image, but to pull it up and give detailed reasons why they don't like it is a compliment beyond their imagination.

 

I like the inclusion of the human hand, drive on baby 

Thanks for the comments, guys.

 

Radu - I couldn't agree with you more about the recent near-disaster. It was good to see you in the trenches with the rest of the defenders of photonet. I saw you with your musket in the next foxhole. It was a case where the collective will of the people carried the day.

 

tony - I don't think they didn't like it; what they were referring to IMHO was the bleakness of the scene which is quite true. If all my pictures gathered this much discussion, I'd consider myself a successful photographer.

While driving through Nara Prefecture, Japan

Oh...this is incredible capture. And...thanks to photographers gods that I can easy find you again Jack... and others i love to visit here...uhhhh 

Nice to see you, Tatjana, on one of your all-too-rare visits to Photoland.

A strong and perfect moment here. Very fine result! The angle works as well.

Jack, another good catch.  Spatial relationships both constrained and circumscribed with girder, wall, and wires. A certain tension.

What I like most about shooting from the car is that subject is gone in an instant.  If you aren't quick you miss the moment, with no opportunity to change relationship to the subject or try again. Rather existential.

Both as an exercise, and from the wide range of outcomes, satisfying.

Best, Sandy

Thanks for the comments.

 

Gunnar - It's good to have you around again. I always find your work inspiring.

 

Sandy - I agree with what you said about shooting from a car. I think one of the things it forces you to do (if you're a passenger and not the driver) is to really pay attention for as you say, things are there and gone in a flash.