Monday, January 28, 2008
Two Plants
Comments:
A forlorn attempt to fight urbanisation? Down with concrete?
Are the two bricks urbanisation fighting back?
This angular composition leads me off down the road leaving the visual snippet behind.
Pure akikana :-)
I can't quite work out if the bricks towards the left have a role in real life, but here in this picture they create completeness.
I read this as 'sad'; I'm not sure why exactly but it could be because a Christmas cactus looks better in colour or maybe it is because that couple (plants not bricks) look rather misplaced. This particular urban framing is rather bleak even though the constituent parts crop up in different locations in your photos. The bricks are equally misplaced, but for a different reason: one doesn't expect the Japanese to leave anything lying around that shouldn't be there.
If it was just one brick, I could believe that it was unintentional, but two bricks must have a purpose. Perhaps to balance out the plants?
Like Rex, my eye is led down the road, but I wonder if part of that is the relative brightness of the left side of the frame. I'd be tempted to tone that down a bit.
Two plants, two bricks, two windows -- another well designed square. I don't find it particularly bleak, but I do also wonder what those bricks are for!
Interesting composition, such that I find myself fighting to tame the parallex. It just makes me feel uncomfortable. Otherwise the tonality is wonderful and the reflection a kinda of hint to the larger context.
No idea what the bricks were used for but they were the only reason I stopped to shoot the scene. I thought they balanced well with the plants up top. At this size the reflection is not coming over that well. At bigger sizes it does come out well and would hopefully stop your eyes leaving stage left. Thanks for the comments.
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Are the two bricks urbanisation fighting back?
This angular composition leads me off down the road leaving the visual snippet behind.
I can't quite work out if the bricks towards the left have a role in real life, but here in this picture they create completeness.
Like Rex, my eye is led down the road, but I wonder if part of that is the relative brightness of the left side of the frame. I'd be tempted to tone that down a bit.