On 12/6/05, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Continuing my PAW catch-up ... another Panny LX1 image: > > http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/48.htm > > This one has potential in color too, the light is quite unusual. > Comments, critique, flames all appreciated.
Love it! I'm a sucker for older iron structures. For a history course once, I had to read Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford. He assigned names to various eras of technical development: Eotechnic, Paleotechnic and Neotechnic. The Paleotechnic era was the age of steel and steam, of belching factories, of the industrial revolution. The 1930's (when the book was written) was (he felt) on the cusp of moving into the new era, sort of a post-industrial age. Iron structures like the one you photographed were being replaced by sleeker, more aesthetically pleasing ones. But to my mind there's something pretty cool about the ugliness, the brutality, and over-building of these structures. You've captured it all here. The lighting is stunning, the composition is superb: I love the stairs, the big post, the diagonal of the walkway and roadway, the huge curved piece on the right. It just all works so well together! Great pic, Godfrey. Sorry for the long post, but sometimes things excite me, or elicit certain memories/emotions... <g> cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
