"wel kom"

[Cem_Usakligil]

Here's one from this afternoon.

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[Robert Watcher]

Interesting trick to the eyes. Took a few seconds to realize the light blue in the middle was an open door and not a vending machine. I do wish the framing were a bit different to make the image even more compelling.

 

[Antonio Correia]

Cem, Cem... what can I say ??...

 

[Jerome Marot]

I like it!

 

[Asher Kelman]

Here's one from this afternoon.

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A coke machine? Ha! Didn't occur to me as I am programmed to think of this photographer's work as an active force that will tend to influence his subsequent pictures. So I look at this open door leading to something that draws me in, like a moth to a flame and think, "Great, another very interesting "Portal" to add to his growing portfolio!"

I am not distracted by the excluded right column of marble to match the left one which is shown. After all, we shouldn't have to see what's not needed - one has to admit that our brains know symmetry and can efficiently add the missing part. So, in an efficient and lean structured statement, why put it in? So, of course he didn't!

.........wait, there's more! The missing marble on the right makes the right side more open and this happens to work well with the figure moving to the right, as if the composition is opening up to let her walk away, unhindered. Whether by serendipity or design, this adds interest and the incompleteness allows us to try to fathom things out ourselves and that, is part of the added value of this work!

A lesser photographer might have expertly cloned away the metal object, (likely an explanatory brass plaque on a stand), on the lower left. Actually it fixes a balance issue. With the right marble column not shown, we might get the experience of the picture trying to rotate clockwise to the right. The object on the lower left counteracts this movement!

Of course others might have a different set of explanations, but mine seem consistent and I'm sticking by them!

Another well done composition!

Asher

 

[Cem_Usakligil]

Interesting trick to the eyes. Took a few seconds to realize the light blue in the middle was an open door and not a vending machine. I do wish the framing were a bit different to make the image even more compelling.

Interesting take on this picture Rob, thanks! What kind of framing did you have in mind?

 

[Cem_Usakligil]

Cem, Cem... what can I say ??...

Silence is golden.

 

[Cem_Usakligil]

I like it!

I like it that you like it Jerome.

 

[Cem_Usakligil]

A coke machine? Ha! Didn't occur to me as I am programmed to think of this photographer's work as an active force that will tend to influence his subsequent pictures. So I look at this open door leading to something that draws me in, like a moth to a flame and think, "Great, another very interesting "Portal" to add to his growing portfolio!"

I am not distracted by the excluded right column of marble to match the left one which is shown. After all, we shouldn't have to see what's not needed - one has to admit that our brains know symmetry and can efficiently add the missing part. So, so in an efficient and lean structured statement, why put it in? So, of course he didn't!

.........wait, there's more! The missing marble on the right makes the right side more open and this happens to work well with the figure moving to the right, as if the composition is opening up to let her walk away, unhindered. Whether by serendipity or design, this adds interest and the incompleteness allows us to try to fathom things out ourselves and that, is part of the added value of this work!

A lesser photographer might have expertly cloned away the metal object, (likely an explanatory brass plaque on a stand), on the lower left. Actually it fixes a balance issue. With the right marble column not shown, we might get the experience of the picture trying to rotate clockwise to the right. The object on the lower left counteracts this movement!

Of course others might have a different set of explanations, but mine seem consistent and I'm sticking by them!

Another well done composition!

Asher

Thanks a lot for your astute reading of this composition Asher, it means a lot to me.

 

[Antonio Correia]

As usual Asher makes a detailed observation of this image.
I quite agree with his points of view but I am more the "sensitive way" as I look and I like it or not.
But the analysis is well done and I agree with it all.

Indeed a very good image ! I even like the cut stand on the left side !
Is this in Holland ? Or Germany ? "welkom" is not Italian...

One stays wandering about the date this frame was built...

 

[Cem_Usakligil]

As usual Asher makes a detailed observation of this image.
I quite agree with his points of view but I am more the "sensitive way" as I look and I like it or not.
But the analysis is well done and I agree with it all.

Indeed a very good image ! I even like the cut stand on the left side !
Is this in Holland ? Or Germany ? "welkom" is not Italian...

One stays wandering about the date this frame was built...

Thanks again Antonio. This is the entrance of the MOTI (Museum of the Image) building in Breda, NL. The building is from 1643.

 

[Andy brown]

Cem, your ability to observe, absorb, create and capture are quite extraordinary.

I've been looking at this image with increasing curiosity and awe.

I still can't quite work out what is reflection and what is silhouette.
I guess that's part of the mystique.

And it is simple yet complex.

Good sh!t

 

[Cem_Usakligil]

Cem, your ability to observe, absorb, create and capture are quite extraordinary.

I've been looking at this image with increasing curiosity and awe.

I still can't quite work out what is reflection and what is silhouette.
I guess that's part of the mystique.

And it is simple yet complex.

Good sh!t

Too much praise Andy, you don't want to make me blush, do you?

 

[Robert Watcher]

Interesting take on this picture Rob, thanks! What kind of framing did you have in mind?

Not necessarily at all what what Asher was talking about with even columns on both sides for symetry, perfect balance, etc. It may require that. I have nothing specific, just find the framing and composition a little unsettling for my own tastes.

Perhaps it's the green door chopped of on the right or maybe the fact the bright pillars and partial gray box are a distraction, or maybe the open door being almost perfectly centered. I really have no idea how I would handle the scene.

I am totally intrigued by the large green door with open small door and what has been captured in the door. Maybe the other distractions are why I couldn't figure out what the small door was about for a few seconds. I keep going back to this photo so see if it grows on me - but that isn't happening yet. Others seem to really enjoy how you have presented the image, so it is probably just my taste.

 

[Cem_Usakligil]

I totally understand where you're coming from Rob, no worries.