Intermission

Of the pictures I've taken so far, this image is my favorite. It's framed on my wall and I enjoy

looking at it - yet I have a hard time articulating why. And whatever it is I like about it only

seems to pop when the image is large, it just doesn't seem to work on the computer screen.

Anyway, thought I'd throw it up here for advice.

I guess we both need 'advice'. I like it too, and you're right, it works best large. I can imagine it would make a good print.

I like the whole 'old car think' with photograhpy. I would love to spend a well-lit morning or evening photographing what I could find in a junk yard. Out here in rural America where I live, it would be fairly perilous to even ask some of the junk yard owners/operators if I could photograph in their properties, as they would be sure I was from the EPA or some other agency whom they might believe was out to put them out of business.

I think there are interesting textures and colors in old derelict things, and, as in the photo above, one spends some time trying to figure out what history is in the picture. In this one I see a Studebaker, a couple of AMC Matadors, a light blue vehicle I cannot identify in the upper right quarter, etc. For this kind of image to work, I [very generally - as there are always exceptions] think a lot of sharpness and detail is needed, as is present in the above photograph.

-s

I think the pic works, and works well, because it is at once both amorphous and structured with definite lines (all cars are different and have varying degrees of smashness, yet there are columns and rows evident)... and it draws you in, not in the 3rds or Receding Lines "textbook" ways... but by catching your attention when you recognize some car models you know or at least know you have seen on the roads... and finding the ones that aren't as smashed and the little recognizable details... kinda draws you in via a "find the needle in the haystack" fascination. It is busy... but, so sharp and full of minute details (shapes, lines, colors) that it keeps the eye and mind occupied, looking for all the little nuances.

The fact that it is a flat subject and so busy yet works so well, is in my opinion, further testimony to your having made an excellent photo. Good job.

I have revisted this image a number of times finding that each time i visit i appreciate it as much as upon my first visit.

the fluidity, & somewhat sedimentary layering within the image, supported by the grey tonality throughout ties this image together well.

as per the subject matter...i find this only enhances the the texturing, & the feeling which is a major part of true art, which is when something transcends itself & taking one to another realm or way of seeing.

you have fine capture here which straddles many levels of life & reality...congratulations.