wolfgangarnold
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A faceless city like too many others - yet, the red spots here and there hint that something's going: the cranes are busy filling the frame withe more concrete (soon the sky will be completely obscured) while the delivery van (secret hero of this play) has placed twice its capacity of crates and barrels in this back alley. -
I love the texture of the withered metal... and I like your caption, though it frightens me as well :) -
Jack, I'd second Markku - please continue sharing such photos. I love how the metal thing pushes into the frame urging the sign to quickly hide (in a horizontal movement) while vertical pipe and streak of light a astonished bystanders. -
In German there is a proverb that says something like 'the luck of the diligent' - in other words: as a constantly practicing (or "hard working") photographer you very well deserve to be rewarded by such a hidden gem. To me it's a masterpiece. Through the reflections and interactions, I, as a viewer, am both: viewing the photo from outside but at the same time I'm the little spaceman I'm seeing... -
Jack, many thanks for your comment! In fact, I also like this creator-guessing-game - not sure, whether it had been a conscious design decision not to show photographers (nor captions) in the thumbnail views but I like that feature, because it avoids being disctracted by names or captions. -
As opposed to other photos where you're creating a composition based on the interaction of visual elements, the single main element is the old, fallen sign. The story does not unfold between elements but - probably more subtle - within the sign itself with it's withered original image (and message), amended by tags, stickers, creases, etc. While admittedly I respond stronger to your 'interactional compositions' (it's nothing I can control actively, it's really more a subconscious thing), I like the colours, textures and materials in this photo - and the fact that probably most of us would have rushed by without noticing this visual gem. -
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Like a puppet player - who is hidden behind the stage but still very pesent - you selected the right time for the shadows and the right place & frame to turn this mundane configuration of elements into a masterful play. While you're hidden behind your camera, you are very present in this image. -
It looks as if right out of some alien species' laboratory - put outside to do some tests on human beings... -
Die Architektur der Zeche Zollverein finde ich ziemlich spannend: obwohl eigentlich ein rein funktionaler Industriekomplex hat sie eine sehr charakteristische Ästhetik.... und ist ein lohnendes Motiv. Dein Foto ist zum Glück schön untypisch - die Verzerrung in der Spiegelung bricht das Raster sehr schön auf. -
Nothing much to add to Michael's comment - except that I like it! usually, I'm a bit skeptical about adding frames - in this cases it works really well as it echoes and extends the strict geometry. -
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Reflected light from windows or glass facades has an own quality and it often bounces into nooks and alleys which do not see much sunlight. Here it acts as a stage light for the furniture while graffiti and echoing plumbing provides a great stage design. I just fear the play will rather enfold as a tradegy and end on a landfill :-) -
There's a rhythm: as the beat of the triangles speeds up it dissolves into a crystal - just to find its final chord in the human beings unaware of the concert. -
Jack, many thanks for your reply and sharing the quotes from Garry Winogrand (I also find his work very impressive - he was a true master of 'shaking things up'). -
Agree to Laurent - B/W suits very well here. I can imagine the signs were very colourful and would have distracted from the faces. Although we're seeing only a tiny fragment, the huge, crowded and bustling city (real and/or imagined) outside the frame is very present. -
Made me smile at least as much as this little Buddha... and I fully agree to Vincent's comment! -
Fashion 2019 - makes a pretty face.
wolfgangarnold commented on FranzWeber's gallery image in Fashion
This is no doubt a pretty face - and a caption that made me smile :-) -
Jack, you have deciphered my approach very accurately! I enjoy photographing most when I succeed in getting rid of all the ballast my brain carries around and when I can concentrate solely on "seeing" (even at risk of sounding esoteric: it may relate to some extent to a state of flow or egoless zen - very recently I came across Eugen Herrigels "Zen in the Art of Archery"...) - anyway, a "zone" from where every now and then images emerge that indeed can be challenging to most people - probably Markku's Urban Trees (/photo/18536987) is also good example. And, btw. Saul Leiter is one of my favourite photographers - it's remarkable how he was able to find (and create) striking beauty in (at the surface) very simple scenes.
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@Holger: many thanks for your comment & good feedback! @Franz: auch vielen Dank & viele Grüße über den Rhein :-)
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You've used the frame to carefully cut out elements from the scene before you and to rearrange them on a stage where they took completely new roles. I like how the fractal complexity of the trees' shadows contrasts the simple shapes and materials on the ground. -
I like how shoreline and street seem touch and then bend away from each other while the reflected sky in the puddle is connecting them. -
Agree to Jack - very well captured and conveyed atmosphere. In fact, I'd be really scared to retire (for all the nightmares and creatures of the netherworld that would surely haunt me). -
A nice entanglement of powerlines (hopefully there's no short-circuit ;-)) - I like the almost abstract appearance. Unfortunately, the resolution seems to be low so that the curves show some "stairs" (it may have been intended, in that case, it might be worth trying an 80s-Computer-Screen-look :-)) -
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