Circles & Arrows (B&W Ed)

This is 'Circles and Arrows' -- a study in shapes (circular fruit and

pointy shoes), that was posted some time ago, in color; it never was

posted for critique I recall, when posted in color This is a recent

desaturation. Your ratings and comments are invited and most

welcome. If you rate harshly or very criticlly, please submit a

helpful and constructive comment; please share your superior

photographic knowledge to help improve my photography. Thanks!

Enjoy! John

is there a paragraph on the back explaining what it is to be used as evidence against you?

Good capture. I like pictures with shoes contrasting with other objects. It gives them a life and personality of their own and they're fun to compose. I have one with a little boy's sneakers along with a couple of pigeons.

I went to Columbia College, home of WKCR, campus radio and one night Arlo Guthrie made one of several trips to the midnight radio show there and sang the ENTIRE Alice's Restaurant song in which he refers to circles and arrows and paragraph on the back of eacf one explaining how it was to be used against you -- referring to some absolutely minor crime (pot smoking?, or have I ciompletely forgotten.

Guthrie sang stanzas no one had ever iimagined to that song and it went on for over an hour, maybe an hour and a half, extemporaneously.

It was a treat to know my friends/fellow students at the radio station had an exclusive and surely had recorded that famous song.

I was drawn to this (posted originally in color) because there were pointed shoes (one shape) and round 'fruit' in the baskets (one fruit is a tomato, which is a fruit).

It was the contrasting geometric shapes, presented symmetrically that captured my interest, rather than the fact they were 'feet' as I'm not a foot fetishist or even remotely interested in such things.

But I like an interesting composition, even if I have turn downward to capture it. . . . and to order the flat emptied.

Fun, insightful comment that brings back old, old memories for which I thank you very much.

(can you imagine how many 'Alice's Restaurant stanzas it takes to fill an hour or an hour and a half with new material.

You put a smile on my face -- thank you-- whether iit was or was not intended.

John (Crosley)

It was dumping garbage over a cliff onto another pile of garbage because the dump was closed on Thanksgiving. This is the pic I was talking about, taken in Athens...