jon_hallberg

After looking at is again I realise how carefully the entire image was focused, the limited depth of field seems, along with the excellent tonal quality (which is quite good), to suggest a medium speed film, perhaps even a 6x6 image.
When I shoot with a TLR I don't feel restricted but rather liberated with a square format and a shot like this where the objets almost playfully rattle around in the rigid format is just right. A rectangle would not work.
The distractions in the red circle, I never even noticed and still don't.
For me the realness of the situation doesn't distract so much as it confirms the delightfully "random order", if there are such a thing.

My approach, when I have nothing "assigned" is to just go out looking for the photographs I know are hiding in plane sight out there somewhere. This looks like one of those photos. I have also been attracted to these sorts of things, industrial sites, building sites, destruction sites. The comment someone made that man has a sense inherent of size, proportion, composition and the like seems to resonate with me.

It would be interesting to see it "shopped" a little, but then I like the rawness of it too. The burning in of the upper right corner would remove more than it would replace, it seems to me.

Cloning out the tool handle, hmmmmm, sometimes removing the human reference creates a greater sense of loneliness or at least of alone-ness.

It evokes a feeling, which like music, is part of photography's job description as far as I'm concerned. I enjoyed it, thank you.