Monday, March 31, 2008
Playground Attraction
Comments:
This has more layers than most of your shots and, in moving back, one has the delight of coming upon the small garden statue - a total anomaly of a classical Western figure. This is the closest I have seen Tokyo look like a village in West Wales: there are houses here with corrugated iron on the walls facing the prevailing wind and our favourite corrugated iron sheds. The foreground gives a bright start but for me it is the first hedge and beyond that carries the deepest interest.
The statue is the photo. That it isn't the first thing that you see makes it all the better. The sack is good too.
As John says, this needn't be Japan, although I suppose that the statue would probably get nicked in many other places.
The brightness along the left hand edge competes for attention a bit.
Thanks for the comments. This part of town is rather off the beaten track but still offers plenty of character and charm. I'm sure the residents would be pleased to be likened to Wales. I too find the bottom left a little 'bright' or distracting but a closer crop would have, I believe, made the statue a little more obvious.
Much different than many of your others, more complexity, and the area is less shiny, neat and clean. The playground "ride" is what catches me first of course, and then there is the fun of discovering the rest, including the cherub peeking out of the hedge. Very nice.
I agree that this photograph is more complex and indeed fun to find the little things, especially the cherub. Likewise I also find this image unsettingly, but I can not figure out why.
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As John says, this needn't be Japan, although I suppose that the statue would probably get nicked in many other places.
The brightness along the left hand edge competes for attention a bit.