Stills

Because I am weird I noticed the Tell Tale. They are monitoring the crack!

I love the incongruity of this image. Does the prop go round............does the wall move.............is that what caused the crack?
 

Not an immediate contender for the wall so that leaves it as more of a cerebral photo. In the times that I have looked at this my attention always ends up wondering why there is a transition from a surfaced drive to gravel, and some of the latter on the former. Is it tied in with burying the lower blade? Is that relevant? Is that why the photo was taken or was it because of the crack measure tie?

Propellors are interesting - in a league with the wheel and the four-square static appearance turned into a circle when in use. There would have been a lot of cavitation off this one given the chip on the end of the left-hand blade. So one meanders along whilst looking at a propellor frozen in time.
 

I can't even begin to imagine what the purpose of this propellor is other than a piece of art, in which case I've seen worse, or perhaps a sign of some kind. All my questioning revolves (ha ha) around the 'why' of the thing.

I wonder if making the whites whiter would encourage me to look at this in terms of an image of contrast.
 

So one meanders along whilst looking at a propellor frozen in time.

That is pretty much what I was doing. This was a hosptial day walk. I couldn't go any further. Loch on the right, and lock and canal on the left. Dead end.

The buildings were in use as a boat repair and sail making business (plural probably - there were several logos). There wasn't much decoration around, but somebody was attached enough to this to dig it in - not recently however, so the gravel was a random thing.

The prop tips are white, so I decided to keep the wall down to maintain the contrast there. Judging the tone for the wall was difficult. When I read the Persil comment on the 'Refusal' photo by email, I assumed it was directed at this shot :-)
 

I think a bit more contrast might be helpful.

My eye keeps coming back to the scuff on the ground. How did that get there? Why should these three things - propeller, crack and scuff - line up so well?
 

You beat me to it. Being in earthquake central I have a whole collection of cracked wall photos to bestow upon you. I'll have to wait a wee while I suppose.

I find the small bracket holding the two walls together to be much imposing in my mind than the three-and-a-half-bladed propeller. I also think a little bit of persil in the picture would help. As matt noticed, that scuff on the ground adds an additional element: why does it stop where it stops?