Love the composition and subject on this one too. Plus, the post processing has brought about such a mood, this could easily pass for a 1920s style photograph.
Best wishes and I wish you happy holidays, whatever kind they may be!
A very very strong image, Vandi, that shows clearly what the good old 35mm lens is able to do. Such an image I would wish to hang on my walls as a huge poster! It is not simply some isolated detail of a scene on a flat image - like for example the countless less than amateuric macros that we see so often about some kind of "natural beauty". Such images, like this one, have depth in the sense of depth of field and in the sense of depth of possible interpretation.
You not only depicted a scene - you rather created it. This is one of the top disciplines of photography, since it is extremely hard to keep all the details, the whole content of the image in mind, and use it in order to put the actor in the scene in a way that his/her relation and dependence from the scene is visible and strong. (A theater scene would be not worth talking about if it weren't a *scene*.) Change the scene just a little bit by including more of this and excluding more of that, and you get a completely different story. And here, I cannot see anything superfluous. Everything is needed in order to create the scene in the way that it conveys what I believe you wanted it to convey.
The details and the light support the creation of the scene very well. Of course even without that little bit of sepia-like toning, and even without the excellently matching frame, the image would be still great. But this way and together with the simple yet powerful title it enforces one of the many possible interpretations, though it could also be only some technician after his work at the high voltage poles.
And the interpretation for me is what might have happened, what the standing person might have encountered, how many losses it had to stand, and how many borders it had to flee through until it could find enough acceptance and a place for a new identity.
On a second level of observation the image could also be the photo of another photo, and thus the view of an old image as seen later on - the remembrance of very hard days of the past. The aged look and feel, and the very realistic frame also support this way to view the image, making the same events twice as tangible!
I like your toning and framing here, Vandy, as it seems to go with the nature and aspect of the shot. Even the background of the power lines, and the condition of the building adds to the story. Dave.
The great details in this picture are missed if not viewed in the largest format. The image has a great sense of mystery and bleakness about it. The monochrome nature of the picture, plus the creative framing work gives it a timeless feel, the whole image comes across as history to me. A very effective work - well done.
0 
{K:127263} 10/21/2007
