Stills

I love this composition. That slight ray of light across the dark path fully includes the dark region in the composition.

The alleyway and post-boxes have enough interest for the whole.

It is grainy
 

Title = daylight saving ??

I like it. Trying to imagine this as wall art is difficult. Would it be too empty? Would it seem like a poster with the text missing? What is it for etc etc. Interesting.
 

"Would it seem like a poster with the text missing?"

I was thinking it might make a good image for a book cover. This image just about marks one year of walking and back and forth to my current job, so I was thinking of doing a book titled something like "A Long Walk Home." The title would fit nicely somewhere in all that black space.
 

I have conflicting thoughts about the total volume of black here. My wife, on seeing this, made the same comment about the space for a title, whilst I was wondering how much black a frame could sustain but then reason told me that many artists have made vast sums of money painting a canvas a single colour. Of course, one needs the empty space to accentuate the entrance to the passage; indeed, I am now struck how like the entrance to a cave this is, where a fire burns somewhere deep inside.

I suppose this is the photographic equivalent of minimalism with a touch of existentialism thrown in. Whatever it is, there is no doubt that it is compelling.

Picking up Stephane's point about the signal given, I would make the observation that as a country dweller the vast majority of houses in the British countryside are inviting from the outside whereas in a city it is rare for the street-level entrance to reflect the possibility of a cosy home within and can, as in the case of vandalised tower blocks, be dangerous.
 

For some reason, my monitor does not show the light on the walk past the enterance. That said, I still find this a very interesting noir image. Doorway and entrances have that hint of possibility and question as to what is beyond.

And I can visualize this as a lead image for a book with text in reverse in the black void.
 

I agree with John's word "compelling" for this and I also like the composition. Though I can easily see it with a reversed title, I think it holds up as an image without that -- the doorway takes me out of the vast blackness, and as mentioned, the bit of light going onto the path keeps it together.

The packages and mailboxes indicate human activity, which warms it all up a bit for me somehow.
 

It's that small shaft of light eminating from the doorway. without it this would be a hovering 'bookcover'. with it you get ground and more than enough infomration to fill in the blackness.
 

All, thanks for commenting. I too worried about the amount of black space, but then I realized that this composition is an extension of some of the very spare compositions that I've been doing in daylight.

Even seen in daylight, this is not an inviting place. The 'packages' are year old phone books left to molder, and the black box next to the mailboxes is part of a long abandoned security system.