Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Yountville, CA
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This picture stirs something like memories for me. While I didn't grow up in a neighborhood that looked like this, it feels intensely familiar. I especially enjoy the contrast between the dark, mysterious garage or carport on the left and the clean, sunny front porch complete with white picket fence and a canopy of trees. A little mystery combined with sunshine and safey.
Definitely a place for the wires in this one! For without them, horror of horrors, one could almost feel man in harmony with nature here: the b/w makes a good job of stacking up the different masses of vegetation and setting off the softened shapes of the house and its surrounds. Will Front Patio IV reach this semi-nirvana?
The wires are definitely needed for compositional balance here, and to add some commonplace to the nirvana.
I do look at the size of the tree and the size of the house and think that with one good blow nature could win this argument.
I don't think that I have strong views about this a as a picture, except to say that this is clearly of a place. Sometimes this is enough.
The idyllic "white picket fence" house -- I think the contrast between the fence and the darkness of the garage door area is effective. The somewhat "messy" wires do bring it back into reality and keeps it from having more of a "postcard" look.
I wonder if there other photo forums where electric wires in the image are considered a good thing?
This reminds me so much of a place I lived in when I was young, the placement of that garage up front and yet in the dark plus the trees brought back many memories.
It may be the fondness of those memories that make me see this picture in a favourable way.
The wires attach this to theneighbourhood, we know its not solitary.
The white picket fence and the white balustrade give me a strong feel for the place.
As Colin says, the wires act to pull this shot a little tighter in whilst the central tree gives it much more height. The telegraph pole's bright spot at the top is a little at odds with the rest of the shadow distribution though. Not that it's a flaw just a peculiarity.
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I do look at the size of the tree and the size of the house and think that with one good blow nature could win this argument.
I don't think that I have strong views about this a as a picture, except to say that this is clearly of a place. Sometimes this is enough.
I wonder if there other photo forums where electric wires in the image are considered a good thing?
It may be the fondness of those memories that make me see this picture in a favourable way.
The white picket fence and the white balustrade give me a strong feel for the place.