adey

A striking image. And especially poignant with the back story you described.

One thing that caught me was the converging lines of the tiles. Converging in space of course but, perhaps, suggesting something more mystical - this old boy's time is almost up - the converging lines maybe hint at his 'time' here is converging too.

Maybe I'm reading too much into this image but it's undoubtedly striking.

Season's best,

Adey

John - it was a pleasure.

I get so much out of your photographs and commentary that giving just a little in return is the least I can do.

Thanks for the reference to James Nachtwey. Very Interesting.

Adey

Hi John,

Love the photograph. Like many great shots, the more one studies the image, the more one gets out of it.

I am by no means an expert in Photoshop but I noticed that nobody has answered your query about enlarging the canvas. Here are the steps I took;

1. Open image in Photoshop(!).
2. Click Image/Canvas Size (there is a keyboard shortcut ALT-CTRL-C on a PC)
3. In the dialogue box one will see the current dimensions of the image/canvas. The drop down boxes allow changing the units displayed for Width and Height.
4. Change this unit to pixels for height (and note width changes units too). This step is optional - I find it easier to work in pixels for this operation. Perhaps if you wanted to add a one inch clear border around the image, then units of inches would be more appropriate.
5. Given that the requirement was to add some space at the bottom of the image, we only need to change the height of the image.
   Perhaps an extra 200 pixels... As long as you add more than you need it's trivial to crop later the extra space you didn't edit. So change the height value from 471 pixels to 671 pixels.
6. This next step is perhaps the least intuitive part, though playing around with the Anchor setting it's easy to get the idea. The anchor defaults to 9 boxes in a 3x3 array.
   The centre box (this represents your image) is blank and expansion arrows point away equally in all directions. The arrows represent how the canvas will grow based on the changes you made in step 5.
   So, in it's default setting, the image will grow (or shrink) in equal amounts to the left, the right, the top and the bottom. In our case (we've added 200 pixels to the image height and nothing to the width) this would produce 100 pixels above the existing image and the same below.
   We want all the extra pixels below, so we need to alter the Anchor settings appropriately. If you click on the up arrow in the Anchor box (the second box on the top row) this moves the box representing the image (relative to the new canvas) to the middle of the top row and there are no longer expansion arrows pointing above the image. The arrows now indicate that expansion will occur to the left, the right and the bottom.
   Since we did not alter the width setting there will be no left or right expansion and the full height expansion will happen below the image.
7. Click OK and hey presto the canvas has increased 200 pixel below the existing image.

It reads more complicated than it is. I'm sure a couple of minutes fiddling and you'll have this off pat.

Hope it helps.

Adey

Hee Hee,

Love this shot - it's never going to feature in an airline's publicity brochure, oh the horrors of "cattle class"! I'm drawn to the sleeping man in the second row, though,he does appear comfortable.

I presume/hope you just happened towards the back of the 'plane to take this shot.

Best Regards,

Adey

Pete, Caleb,

Thanks for you comments!

The tip was no good I am afraid. I don't remember where the horse finished but it was way down the pack.

I had an idea that I might be tied up with the Grand National when I was thinking about this project, though no real concrete pre-planned ideas. I quite like how it turned out, though with a little more planning I would have liked the cashier to be in slightly better focus - though not sharp. The look on her face was a cross between wonderment and "headmistress stern"!

Adey

John - you are wrong! I think the girl has a wonderful expression on her face. Her face is a window to her mind. To me she is thinking "What the 'heck' is this man taking a photographs of this wall and me for!".

Adey