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Serendipity…
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Hi Rob. I really like this shot and you’ve handled the contrast between the dark and light very well. It’s like as if the gent is walking out of one shot and into another with the dark, old traditional frontage in the sweater, jewellery shop and the modern business type frontage of the lighter building with the CCTV cameras and stand outside. Well done.
Hi Rob,
This shot has a lot of character; well one at least :)
The composition placing him right at the bottom works very well.
A very dignified air to the shot, which is very nice.Martin
Agree with the others. Great shot and b/w conversion. I take it Serendipity is the name of the shop?
Good one Rob, would be happy with this. Well spotted and nicely processed and presented…
Fine photo, Rob.
I especially like the part of his stride you caught the man in. He’s moving but yet isn’t!
Regards.From a different age-
However, I’m not so sure the signage is helping-
particularly the ‘pity’ because that’s the last thing that’s warranted for so dignified a gait-The other one in the background doesn’t add much either-
But well spotted and caught-
j
Thanks to all for comments, glad it appeals…
Yes, Serendipity is the name of the shop…
Regarding the signage, I was in two minds about leaving it, after all,
that’s what prompted me to click at the moment I did. But as has been
mentioned, there is a certain dignity in his gait, so perhaps the word
‘pity’ may be inappropriate after all…At 100% you can see the poor state of his attire (excepting his shoes)
and the dirt on his weathered face. I imagine, though I could be wrong,
that he didn’t have much more to his name than whatever it is he’s carrying
in that bag under his arm, and has spent more time without a roof over his
head than most of us would care to…Still, here it is without the signage…
I hate to agree with people cos it seems like I’m either lacking me own thoughts or just kissin up to the cool dudes, and they don’t come much cooler than Joe ‘The Carpenter’ Burns, but I do agree with what our Joe has already said.
The bloke is classic, you could easily drop him into a photo from the 1930s or the like and many might not bat an eyelid. The shop front signage just don’t compliment him at all.
#2 much better.
I like the first one and think the second one ruins it.
I have taken several views of this to see what others think. The “pity” jars with the figure. The signs fight for attention in the image as much as the figure. The shadow is tantalising in it’s absence. It seems he is out of scale with the image. He’s central in the image. But there’s so much of this going on that it holds an interest with me. It’s like a square peg among round holes and a curiosity.
My view, apart from the above, is that this guy is as much of a tourist attraction as the two modern honeypots that he’s passing. I’d reckon his attire and condition conflict with the reality of his situation as much as his dressed-down goes against the dressed up dolls.
Nice place, eh?
Alan
Thanks John and Alan…
John, our resident master chippie will be well pleased with such
a compliment. I wasn’t disagreeing with Joseph myself, merely
explaining the inclusion of the signage. Always good to throw ideas
around this place and get so many different views…Thank you Alan for looking several times. A couple I could understand,
but several I’m well pleased with. Always good when an image holds
the attention…Not sure which version I prefer myself, though I do think cropping to
square may have been a bit severe; a little more room at the top might
be better…
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