Stills

A very fine painter once told me something to the effect that the feelings and emotions you have about what you paint come out in the painting and make it more interesting to the viewer. I don't know if that holds true for photographs, but I suspect it does. When I first found your website and looked at your photos, many of them impressed me in some inexplicable way that I think might be explained that way.

Now that I've said all that, I have to say that I don't feel that about this image! It has a somewhat interesting design with the windows and roof lines and shapes, but I don't get much else from it. My preference for living things could be a factor here, too, though.
 

I have to set aside the discussion on your site with regards to the bowed roof! Is the same happening to the kerbstones?!

I presume that the bit of car is a nod to human presence. Definitely not a photo that owes anything to Wordsworth! But it is an important observation in its way. This is what we do with with our surroundings. This is where people go to work and pass large parts of their lives - and that is possibly why the majority of paintings/photos offer escape from that. Old industry acquires a patina of attraction but one is hard pushed to imagine that this ever could; and yet...drains are so important! Maybe old industry had an element of craftmanship to it whereas this is functionality stripped of anything, utilising the cheapest materials.

Aesthetically, you chose an interesting lineup centering the image largely on the three skylights, which leaves the door and car as outer extremities. It works.
 

John,

The kerb is a complex shape owing to a bump in the road and a narrowing pavement. I wouldn't like to say how much the camera angle/lens contributes to the non-linear effect.

I had a great deal of difficulty deciding which line to take as straight when I was processing the scan. Even the sign and the windows are at odds.

Rex,

I was going to say that there is nothing worse workwise than being responsible for a roof, but then I remembered car parks. Yes, I have been responsible for both staff and visitor car parks (and a roof or two). When they are handing out jobs at work, never, ever, agree to be responsible for car parking.
 

The kerbstone remark was a bit tongue in cheek! It would appear that this building is not going to last longer than the average farm shed.
 

John,

I recognise that but I thought I would reply for the benefit of less avid readers of my site :-)

For the second week running, the answer is a step-ladder. I don't know where I would feel more conspicuous carrying one. On the hills, or around town.
 

In the age of sitting rooms on wheels why would anyone want to park so far away from their exit point? The car and the door make it for me - one has crept in whilst the other is making a speedy getaway. The inbetween is a fine mix of texture, contrast, pattern and form. That fine slither of sky also adds a good balance to the predominantly dark tones beneath it.

Threes appear much throughout the scene. Three initials; three words; three pains of glass and six windows in total; three skylights; and three unrelated objects - the car, door and light above.

Now if I couldn't see some internal structuring through those windows I'd again be saying the shot looked a little flat as the building occupies so much of my attention.
 

This seems very much like a photo I would take, and pretty much how I would take it.

The restricted tonality works for this.