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Jack...I like it;great eye(as if I just discoverd it) to see the color co-ord between the frame and the safety cones.Salutations-Laurent
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This is a POTW photo, which means it's an award to both, the photo and the photographer, so to make a good comment on it I've gazed it long to find its strengths and weaknesses if any of both.

I concluded the following , it contains every aspect of a city except living people, yet everything in the frame is used and made by people, its title is Urban composition, and it was put in a frame, like every thing in urban life, though I hate frames.

The most distinctive feature of this urban composition is the lack of green color, which reflect the fact of urban life and how they relates to the green colors( plants and trees).

I like it and it deserve the award .

My regards .

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I don’t see the POTW as an award. Photos are chosen for an ability to stimulate discussion. They may be bad photos or good photos. As many bad ones are chosen as good ones. It’s the duscussion about them that’s key, and even a bad photo can lead to a good discussion. As a matter of fact, given the current awful and shallow state of PN, who would even want an award from here? It would be like having an award in shipbuilding from the builders of the Titanic. What strikes me about Jack’s photo is that the content, even as it speaks for its urban self, also is an abstract. Often, photo abstracts are created with motion, mirrors, glass, or way too heavy-handed post processing, rendering the content almost or completely unrecognizable. Here, the content remains itself and important and it’s Jack’s eye and framing that visits abstraction upon it, not unlike some Jasper Johns or Robert Rauschenberg paintings. So the photo successfully marries narrative and literalism with abstraction and more formal concerns. As the elements of the city mingle, so do the shapes and colors. In this case, seeing is believing!
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Unexpected multi-layered view of everyday life, Jack! Congratulations! Sincerely, Tatiana
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What I like most is the 'brain' of the bicycle (piece of cloth behind the seat), the most organic shape among all the metal and concrete. Look at those 'cerebral' folds, like an android head burst open.
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Jack, Norma's comments are spot on regarding the image itself and also regarding its inherent ability to prompt discussion. To me, some of the very best abstract photographs are those containing identifiable elements. I don't know whether she regularly follows you work, but clearly I do and I have for quite a while now. I dare say that most, if not all, of the photographs of yours I've seen should generate a great deal of discussion. Having said, in order to avoid duplicating previous comments, what I immediately noticed about this image is its containing 2 hallmark elements: a bicycle and segments. My usual experience has been that the segmentation is simpler than in this case. Here there are 3 vertical objects (one of which clearly is a utility pole) that divide the top third of the frame. Then, the bicycle makes its own contribution based on how it's built, resulting more segments (but smaller ones).
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Thanks you all for your comments and especially to Saad, Fred and Michael who commented at length. I'm a little embarrassed that this picture was chosen as POW because to be honest I think it's ok but nothing special. there were a lot more in the past week(s) that I believe would have been a better choice. However, I have no say in the matter so thanks for your support. Much appreciated.
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Congratulations dear Jack, on having been selected as POW. Interesting, eclectic, dynamic and complex photo. With your subtle photography, what caught my attention was the additional "shock-absorbers" just beneath the seat....or maybe, it is just a cloth to wipe something out, especially in such a clean conscious culture as Japan. In any case, as always, you leave ample room for interpretation, and I will have a good while to do my homework with this great image... :-))

Warmest regards. DG

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