Surrounding....

I upload the B/W version as well, as I like both. The colored IS the surrounding

Thanks for your impressions and points of view.

Thanks

Hey Pnina, I'm finally the first....... I see you are shooting through glass again.....Guess you were in a Mall......I prefer the color version the best.......Lady, you sure see photographs where no-one else would.......Way to go ......Jim

Modern life is so made!...Ciaomau!

i like both images. graphically, i think i prefer the black and white, but artistically, i prefer the color. it reminds me of many of your dance images.

Jim, It was in the street... Thanks my friend, I appreciate your nice feedback.

 

Maurizio, as any thing in life there are the pro and against.....

 

Linda, thanks for commenting on the two of them, interesting your analogy to my dance photos...;-))

Both are very good but I find the B&W version more powerful. A very good conversion of this great shot. I love it!.

I like both, Pnina, but prefer the B&W: stronger impact, less distracting.

Wow, so much visual noise, it seems disturbing. However the B&W is not as loud.

I'm very fond of both the black and white and the color. It really surprised me, as I expected to not like the black and white after being introduced to the color version first. I love the typical American icons and the whirlwind nature of the image. I guess that's American too. flying high, gulping fat, and moving fast. You caught it.

Although I prefer your exquisite theatrical photos this one is very good. In fact you have that ability to present the street life as a theatre scene..

I will side with the colour version, I like the way only two colours are present. The eye is drawn to small yet fascinating details like the hand (bottom left) by the brightest red in the frame. I get the feeling this is an image which really needs to be seen large to understand the complexities of the composition but I find the disparate elements compelling and it holds my attention well.

 

Simon

A very interesting photographic collage, Pnina! I like the both color and black and white, although they have a different feel. You have a very sharp, perceptive eye for interesting composition.

 

Best regards,

 

Dick

I like colours - yet the b&w version is better than I expected. Tension by different elements ...

I see American culture in a capsule,Pinna. Both the versions are equally good and evocative.

Teresa, Paula and Bob, thanks for writing your preferences , I mayself liked both, and I agrre that B/W is "calmer"....

 

 

 

Dave, thanks

" I guess that's American too. Flying high, gulping fat, and moving fast. You caught it."

Part of my impresions...Yes....;-))

 

 

Vladimir, thanks for a nice analogy... Street IS a life theatre....;-))

 

Simon, nice expression of your impression,I think that most of the time looking at a photo in the larger size,is always getting a better impression of details.Thanks for visiting and liking both versions..

 

Richard, Thanks as well for stopping by, and your feedback on both.

 

Daily and Amal, Yes both are part of my impression in a " capsule" thanks for liking both versions .

 

 

Hi Pnina...Two interesting images...I prefer the B&W image..it seems to have more impact on my brain!...Marjorie

Color or B&W? It's a permanent question and maybe just a question of which one you yourself like more than another. One thing I can surely say is that your B&W version has no lack and it fires my imagination more than your color version does.

I vastly prefer the color version. Although the B&W has obvious merit in its own right, it does not come close to telling the story the color version tells so effectively. What an amazing commentary on our fast-food, consumer driven culture.

 

Shabbat Shalom . . .

 

michael

A microcosm of an American lifestyle...and the red hand perhaps is saying, "Stop this madness". Excellent idea and execution, Pnina! OH, and I love both versions, but I'd give a slight edge to the color version.

The silhouette amidst this natural collage really throws our expectations out the window. I like pictures that do that.

Marjorie, Hiroya, Michael, and Christal, thanks for writing your preferences and point of view, always helpful!

 

Jack, always a well worded comment ;-))Thanks

These two recent uploads involving reflection on glass are a study in opposites. This one seems from a frantic world were the improbable is the common place. The other one from Cape Cod is outside looking in, this one appears to be inside looking out.

I do not have a preference as regards B&W or colour they both work for different reason.

Thanks , you are right.

"This one seems from a frantic world were the improbable is the common place. "

 

Passing some places in NY, like time square, this is the right impression,

a " Merry go round" of lights and changing forms, people and movements, that does not stop for a moment.....

the statue surrounded by shouting ads....when everybody's shouting and crying, after a while the silent one gets attention...it's only me commenting and not Confucius....