toronto Rickshaw in an Alleyway

I love all these interesting locations you keep finding. You've captured the colors and the details superbly in this one.

Tell me what you think

This is in a tiny alleyway which I stumbled upon - strange place for the elaborate wall art.

A very unusual topic. Very colorful, great light. I've never seen a rickshaw used in any North American cities before.

Thanks,John. As you can imagine, they're a tourist thing. Pullers are mainly students.

Students!!! Mush!

Nice find Roger and well captured.

Thanks, Dale.

Aha, here's a bit of that foreground/background thing I was talking about with regard to Magritte and Escher. This I love. The surreal juxtaposition of your main foreground subject with the "aritificial" background, the real becoming part of the rendered, is very much a visual and thematic treat to be savored. The dimensions and depth in the mural and the perspective from which you've shot, and the dog just staring me down keep making me want to look for more . . . and there is more to find. That's the beauty of art like this, you know there's more (for instance the op art design behind the central window) if you just keep looking at it. I'm not even going to begin to wonder what that is in the top right hand corner, or why it's there for that matter!! One will want to keep coming back to this. --Fred

Thanks, Fred. Every time you critique one of my images I find that I have to re-examine it and take something new from it. This is one of my favourites, coming upon it as I did in a most unlikely alleyway, and what are the chances of finding a rickshaw in front of this great mural art? As I'm sure you know, there's ongoing debate about using the art of others in your own. I think I can get away with it here because the image without the rickshaw would be much less, but if I enter this in competition I'd probably seek the opinion of one of our local experts. I'm not very familiar with Escher, and you have stimulated me to seek him out. Thanks again very much. Will tackle one of your images later in the week.