Stairs to Nowhere......

Thanksfor your impressions. Pnina

Thanks.

I like this geometric composition. I'm not quite sure wheather the upper black portion helps this or not.

 

Regards

Clever to framed & perfect use of light and shadows, simple, clear & unique, Pnina, stunning achieved!!! Best regards

"How to make a real interesting picture at a place where there is nothing to take a picture of ?"

...Pnina can show you !

Strong! And especially I like the limbering up adjuncts at the borders ...

Pnina, Effective framing device. I feel the tightness, nooks and crannies, the red tile roofs, and the upkeep of the building and grounds. Beautiful job, as always.

Great angles and framing. I'm glad this has gotten the attention because it is well deserved.

Thanks, Biswajite, Richard, Andrea and Daily( great to see both of you on the same time!!)

 

Donna, and Jeff!!

 

I appreciate all you nice feedback.Jeff I'm glad you could come in...

Love the shapes and angles. Very well composed prina. P.S. I put some more images up for you from the memorial.http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6303376

'Stairs to Nowhere' leads to Beauty Everywhere,Pnina.I admire your composition and play of light & shades.Clinically aesthetic image.

Joe and AmalThanks

 

Joe, I saw it, it is so impressive, I wrote you there.

 

Amal,always supportive, thanks my friend!

Very good play of angles, shapes, light & shadows & natural frame. Very good perception.

pnina, I really love this composition. Strong lines great title. Thi is just a suggestion. I would look at cropping the bottom up to the second step to remove the bench and pipe in the middle. I would crop the object on the left as well. Even though you miss the bottom step, I don't think it would take away from your concept here but stengthen it by removing the distractions. Try it and see. I do like this. db

I would suggest making this a very minimalistic composition by cropping to a rectangular image of only the stairs and light and dark wall. I do love all the angles in this photo though. Pnina, I've been meaning to send you a quote that I found on Philip Turner's PN site....."Rating without comment is prescription without diagnosis which is considered malpractice". Howard Dion. I know how frustrating it is to get those anonymous 3/3 ratings with no comment.

Thanks Cherlyn, Daniel and Susan.

 

Daniel and Susan, thanks for you suggestions, they are more possibilitis,but I like it as is and I will explain. The image is a house and I wanted to leave it as such, the bench for me is a sign that people are leaving here, I liked the pipes and the vegetation because it is not leaving it " steril". so for my taste it will stay as is, but I appreciate your suggestions.

 

Susan, I know Howard Dion's work very well, and was following his work and he mine for a long time till he had disappeared, so I know what he wrote about the 3's. many good photographers have left because of the rating system, I have stopped rating , because I think that most of the time it is not as good as a good comment....

 

and that is what I'M doing, trying to comment in the best of my ability.

Excellent

WOW! Excellent, including you eyes, Pnina.

 

Alberto

Lovely, lovely shot, Pnina.

An original composition, precariously but perfectly blanced; the stairs couldn't be more perfectly placed. The red tile roof adds a nice accent but I think it would be equally powerful in b&w.

Pnina this is marvelous! Perfect symmetry and minimalism. That spot color of roof tiles is excellent.

I like it exactly as-is.

 

The color spot (red tiles) someone else noted is important...and the weeds make the image "real" ...sense of reality distinguishes a photograph from a mere graphic construction or illustration (one can make a photograph by painting, it doesn't require digits or emulsions). Bauhaus photograms may or may not have been photographs, but this image definitely is one, and mainly because of the weeds and the red tile.

 

I might have cropped the junk hanging from the wire on the extreme right, but I'm not religious about full frame, and some are...but that's Pnina's decision, not mine.

 

On the other hand, cropping from the right would result in a changed graphic balance ...I'd hate to lose any of that light grey horizontal platform from which the wire and junk hangs.

 

Therefore, I'd have cleaned that stuff out with Photoshop.

Thanks for your evaluation. My reason to leave the bench,weeds, and junk on the right is for two reasons, one is exactly because they are contrary( or counterpoint in Ehglish? ) to the graphic form of this image, and the second is because it brings human life to the composition even though no human figure is present... and therefor life, and imo more interest.

 

I'm not religious as well for a full frame , but IMO cleaning the junk on the right that you have offered will unballance the composition, even only slightly.

 

(BTW, Your visit was some surprise as you very nicely dialogue in the forums, but not in your photos.... As I prefer a dialogue ....I have disappeared.:-))