Hi Matthew,
Walmarts destroy local Ma and Pa stores, but that is not necessarily rural America or is it since AFAIK, Grain stores, the huge trans-national grain companies control the seeds for many years, not Walmart, John Deer and other companies sell the tractors and so forth.
Mills in Massachusetts and the Steel places in Pittsburgh that are closed down, not, TTBOMK, the small farm.
For sure, the General Store, where one can get food and brooms and change checks etc probably do close down, but that is not what's shown with the silo, or is it meant to represent that?
The grain silo also reminded me of the missile silos except those things are below ground.
To the picture:
Matthew Desmond said:
ya I shot at a 28 focal length... would the image still work if I cropped it so that the top half of the silo cut off?
I didn't mention cropping. Rather I wanted to know if you took more pictures of the landscape. I asked that since it is an interesting area to me. I have never seen a silo of that shape. Is it isolated? What structures are there nearby? Are they in working state or rusty and in ruins?
I thought perhaps you had more of this fascinating area to share.
I do like the subject. Most important in an image is whether or not it engages. Here, the answer is yes. The huge thing cannot be ignored and the little store in the b.g. is a massive store, in reality, an irony.
I do wonder about the decision to frame with little sky. Where there objects you sought to exclude? Or was this your artisitc design to crop close.
One might choose to gain some frame of reference by adding sky above and landscape and a horizon.
This might bring out more clearly the clash of the two. The small town economies supporting and being ravaged by Walmart and each being inversely proportional in power to their physical side in the picture as you already have shown, but in a large context.
Thanks for taking me to somewhere new!
Asher