Vacant Lot #1

Hi Jack,

Looking at this series and how you titled it, and I can't help to think about a line from Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses from U2 (what can I do, I grew up in the 80s and 90s so I love them) - "you left my hear empty as a vacant lot, for any spirit to haunt". It really connects to me this image under that line in such romantic way... what this has been heavier than what this will be, fragments of the past that we just can't get rid. Beautiful work.

This makes me think of fellow PN photog Eric Stolk's "Uncanny" series. It has that same sense of something that happened just before or about to happen. Intriguing and unnerving at the same time. 

Linda - Eric Stolk ----- ...some sense of something that happened just before or above to happen........

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If I had to pick a favorite in this series, this one would be it.  The rectangular object held down by rocks seems to be a beacon, warning passers-by not to lift it up and not to venture below.  If whatever lives beneath it, the potential victims have a defensive weapon at their disposal - the stick pointing to the bottom left corner.

I really like the color combination and the textural variety.  Better still, I like how the fence serves to partially frame the image. The best, though, is your imagination, without which this photograph would not exist.

The vacant, somewhat insignificant lot is in direct contrast with the careful arrangement of the rocks in the middle. I agree with the feelings expressed by previous commenters. I will only add that the car in the far background acts like a monitoring body for anyone who dares to touch the contraption in the middle. Although at the edge of the frame, it's effect on the scene can be profound.