Crossing in the Rain

A sole, extended leg is all that shows as a lone pedestrian finishes a

dash across a busy street, vying against the rain and mist -- in a misty

and very wet environment during a downpour. Your ratings and critiques

are invited and most welcome. If you rate harshly or very critically,

please submit a helpful and constructive comment; please share your

superior photographic knowledge to help improve my photography.

Thanks! Enjoy! John

And her reaction was: 'I don't get it'.

'I don't understand what this photo is about'

Even after an explanation, she seemed unconvinced, but I think the Photo.net raters (the ones who care about rating more 'out there' photos), do care, and some of them do 'get' photos such as this.

I post what I will, and even if I get a personal negative review, such as that, I will post anyway, if I like a photo.

I go with what I like, and let the raters decide for themselves.

It keeps me fresh and constantly experimenting, never afraid to point my lens at something and release the shutter for fear somebody won't 'understand' my capture or 'misunderstand' my captures.

And I post many here and elsewhere for the same reason.

Those I often expect to get high ratings, often don't.

Those I often expect to get low ratings, sometimes get medium to very high ratings.

The ratings process can be a real eye opener for popular opinion at least, and for a photo like this, for those who are willing to look at a photo such as this which is more 'avant garde' than the more straightforward photos posted on this service in abundance.

John (Crosley)

I initially did not recognise the pedestrian's leg, but after reading your comment it all becomes clear. The pedestrian is moving out of the dark and secure into the open and light. I like the two arrows; the crossed one pointing back the way the pedestrian has come and the other showing the way. Also the red lights suggest danger to me and the tail lights look like baleful eyes watching with malevolence as the pedestrian enters their domain (oops, bit poetic...)

Great recognition of the image, I find it fascinating.

Sometimes when you take an image like this, you wonder whether (or if) it will struggle for an audience.

This photo has struggled, and maybe deservedly so; maybe not.

I'd like to have 50 such shots and a chance to show them at a gallery like the Gagosian Chain with full support for this substrate of my work and see how it would fare, as my onetime mentor suggested a substrate of my work 'deserved'.

I keep on taking and posting certain such photos, on his recognition that you have to push the boundaries -- in fact I always have - but I can't do that with every shot, as I have no systematic way of approaching such shots.

I just take increasingly difficult shots and some of them turn out like this,as their degree of difficulty becomes increasingly more difficult, which is why there are so few such shots.

I do NOT strive to take such shots; they are a logical outcome of my ordinary shooting; if I had more lenses and cameras with V.R. and could attend more 'iffy' shots, I would be trying more for such unusual shots.

Let's leave it at that, as I do appreciate this with an * (aterisk - that's the dark flavor of the asterisk.)

One part of me shoots now 'street' with greater clarity -- 'classic street', anjother shoots 'street portrait' more clearly, another shoots various landscapes better and so on.

I'm fully capable of going out into almost any situation and taking whatever kind of photo is available to be taken, so even bad weather does not 'dampen' my enthusiasm.

I very much thank you for your expression of support. You and one other commenter. ;~))

I think this would look good blown up really big . .. .. not a process all of my photos would stand.

Thanks.

John (Crosley)