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no service today apparently...a superb image both aesthetically and narratively Laurent...I can imagine either the box has been supressed or is retired from service during the reduced personal summer period...as well a very good documentary on urban objects and colors...

 

I also enjoyed the discussion you had with Jack about good days vs struggling days photographically speaking....some days everythings seems easy and you go home with lots of high potential images....some others I just seem to be able to to do nothing interesting...

You know how much I like your work and wish you posted more often. Looking forward to reading you and seeing your pics! As to me, I'm always wishing there were more hours in a day.

Critique welcome, thank you.

"no service today apparently...a superb image both aesthetically and narratively Laurent"

 

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My grandmother could have taken this shot.

I thank you for expressing your thoughts in such a sincere way and I'm certainly not thin-skinned, yet I would appreciate further analysis from you about this picture.

 

I am revisting a bit Laurent, did no see Harry's comment the first round...I understand that people may not get the indirect idea about such images, nobody 's forced to like color and textures after all...and everybody is not necessarily aware of the ongoing restructuring of public service (like Postal service) in Europe (and particularly France) that have raised huge political battle...just to explain my initial thoughts on this image...

 

Harry's Grand mother should be a nice photographer to understand all those issues and gets such nice shots that sum it up without shouting in a superbly aesthetic manner...

Laurent, thanks for revisiting and writing an extensive comment about this picture. I appreciate your thoughts very much. Indeed this series was taken in a small industrial town of the north of France that has badly suffered from the successive recessions over the years. It had been rebuilt after WWII by a famous French architect and was then a symbol of the prosperity that came with the best thirty years after the war. It is now rather sad to see what has become of the place. I'm glad you appreciate my efforts at both graphism and telling a story.

 

I understand and appreciate that other people may have different taste or different views about a subject, yet Mr Joseph doesn't seem to have been wanting to develop his thinking any further about this pic.

 

Thanks again Laurent.

that's about life when posting on the net...I know, I know.....