Back Door Delivery

Work now, rest later.

I like the tight crop Jack and only seeing red chair blue box, hand included - nifty 

Very cool composition . 

A most unstable, volatile (yet optically perfectly balanced) situation. Will the dialogue between the cyan and the red elements end up with an agreement or will the cyan box just pass by? I guess we'll never know.

Jack, I seriously believe that you ought to pull an Eggleston and just show up at MOMA (either one) with a suitcase full of color prints and just see what happens.

 

Love the colors along the diagonal here, as well as the glimpse through the door, etc.

 

--Lannie

The delivery person must be a reincarnation of Howling' Wolf.  I can hear him singing now:  "The men don't know, but the little girls understand."  

 

The image contains a mystery.  Where will the blue boxes be placed?  Better still, where would viewers like us like to see the boxes placed?  Personally, I hope that we never find out so the mystery will continue. But I may not have thought of this if you hadn't provided glimpses of several different realities.

It's both literal and abstract at the same time, in very balanced degree. I'm taken by the way the back slatted part of the chair is like an abstraction of a hand.

Hi Jack, have been looking around to find something Christmassy from you but think this is the closest I'll get!! As usual a very well composed image - all the parts work in harmony and I really like the colour of the chair against the blue crate.

Wishing you a very Happy Christmas & New Year.

Best wishes. Sarah.

So many lovely elements. Even someone as color-illiterate as I can see the juxtaposition and geometric pattern created by the complementary/opposing red and blue.  More surreality.  I like Lannie's reference to Eggleston.

Thanks for the comments on this picture and so many of the other pictures I posted this month. I got a new camera especially for street shooting, the Sony RX100m2 (my budget couldn't stretch enough to buy one of the later models but I'm happy with what I have.) and have been having a lot of fun with it. I didn't use it for this picture but snapped Haunted Youth with it. It's small, unobtrusive and easily fits in my pocket so that I can carry it around everywhere - which I do. I'm in a bit of a slump idea-wise and panning a lot of gravel for a few flecks of gold but that's just the cyclical nature of the game. Or at least I hope so. By the way, I got Eggleston's "The Democratic Forest" as a Christmas present. I was thinking the other day what it is about his work that attracts me so much and I had just an inking. I think he has the ability to unhook briefly from internal references and see things in a particular way, almost as an autistic person might (one of my pet theories). The images seem almost spontaneous realizations in space that have no particular meaning yet seem to strike a familiar chord with a lot of people so that they might nod and say "yeah, I see what you mean" without really being able to say exactly what that meaning is.