On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Rick Womer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I disagree. Doug's pix have a definite "loneliness" theme, and the > combination of the empty street and the empty sky hit the bullseye.
I know I've already commented, but I have to agree with you Rick. I wouldn't crop a thing out, wouldn't change a thing. It's a perfect balance of desolate town/big sky. The single vehicle moving through the intersection (with no other human in sight) emphasizes the barren townscape. Other than a few parked cars, there's not much evidence that anything's happened in this place since about 1925. The long, deep shadows and slightly hazy mountains in the distance only emphasize the extreme isolation - isolation in both place and time. I'm not much good at commenting on photos, but I've been looking at this one over and over since it's been posted. There's something about it that keeps drawing me back. It's one of the best photos I've seen on this list for a long time, and given the generally high quality of posts here, that's pretty high praise (at least it's intended as such). cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
