Hi Frank ... I like this shot because it's very real - a nice snap of a street scene with everyone going about their business. It's not a great photo in the sense of being well structured or composed, or one that carries great depth or meaning, but it captures a bit of everyday reality. It's balanced - cropping it (especially like Igor's crops) totally destroys the photo and creates something other. Cropping should, IMO, enhance a photo, make it stronger, not butcher it and change it completely. The perspective and the depth work well to provide the viewer with a sense of being there, being a part of the scene.
This would be great as a part of a series - a group of street scenes taken on the same street at different times, say within the span of a few blocks or so (or something similar). As I write this I'm reminded of Auggie Wren's photos, taken of the same Brooklyn street corner at the same time every morning. It took the viewer some time to get it. Pics like this actually have the effect of slowing us down, as if we, the viewers, were walking along that street, on our busy way to or from somewhere important. How often have we walked down a street and not really seen the scene and the life around us? Pics like these stop time for a moment, and let us see our neighbors and the neighborhood a little better. Frank, please use a hyphen instead of a colon, or no punctuation at all, in the subject line. Colons are treated by some mail readers in such a way that the PAW or PESO part is stripped away, and destroys the ability of mail filters to work properly. Shel > [Original Message] > From: frank theriault > Nothing Big or Important, just a slice of street life, I guess. I'm > not sure how I feel about this one. Sometimes I like it, others I > don't, so your comments will be especially useful to me. > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4048050&size=lg
