Thanks, Cotty for looking and for those interesting comments. I see what you mean, and understand what you are saying. Personally, I like the first one because it has more detail. I especially tried to bring out the remaining hints of aqua color in the sign and in the siding. To me, these are reminders that this place once has pretensions of style and fashion (perhaps art deco?) that have not only vanished, but become obsolete.
That is why I plan to pair it with Loukas' Diner, with all its color and glitz. The Whitehouse Diner once had that sort of ability to catch the eye and draw in the passing travelers, but its day has passed, and it decays forlornly alongside its crumbling parking lot and bare surroundings. Dan M On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Cotty <[email protected]> wrote: > <http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10891938> > > On 10/4/10, ann sanfedele, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>Really? Gosh - I love the first one of this diner but in this one I >>see no detail in the foreground and >>think it's much too wide a shot... Hey wat do these Brits know about >>diners anyway (ann ducks) > > Not a great deal, but we do like a fried breakfast now and again. Well, > now anyway. > > I like it because of the space surrounding it, which creates a frame > within a frame, if you will. The fact that nothing else appears to be > adjacent gives me a sense that things have moved on and the diner has > been left behind, forlorn. For me a photograph is a 'story' in a > nutshell. The photographer tells that story in how the photograph is > presented. A closer crop would tell me a different story - as it is, I > like the story I'm getting from this one :-) > > > > -- > > > Cheers, > Cotty > > > ___/\__ > || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche > ---------- http://www.cottysnaps.com > _____________________________ > > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
