This one creeps up on you. It's not striking or crisp, but the low contrast and literal dullness of the photo manages to convey the dullness of the day. I like it that you have to do a bit of work to see the tower. There's something about the random placement of lighting standards that really disturbs the serenity of the setting and I think it detracts from the photo. But if this photo had been taken by one of the great photographers of all time, this might be seen as a kind of statement about how our best intentioned and best executed attempts to control and improve our environment sometimes take an aesthetic toll.
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The snow here helps create a quite an impressive pleasing effect giving value to the green and red traffic light along with the trucks yellow. Wow ! Bumping up.
The trees and the road seem to block the subject. If youtook the shot from the other side of the intersection you might get a better view of the tower. Ilike the falling snow in the photo is adds alot to the shot.
auugh, don't you just love it when the weather changes?! i'm glad you went on and submitted...it definitely gave me a grin. i'll give it a 7, just because i know there's something recognizable back there. i'll also suggest you go rent jim jarmusch's first movie, "Stranger Than Paradise"; there is this one really incredible scene that takes place on the edge of lake erie, and that scene was the first thing i thought of when i saw this image. good luck.
I barely see what I assume is the tower. I like the idea of having the tower in sort of a winter haze, but the forgroung street light and wall killed it for me.
Brrrr.....although, I like snow and this is a pretty looking snowfall. A picture of the skyline through the snow might not have been a terrible idea, but I don't dare for all the foreground distractions....the traffic light, the street light, and particularly the tree right in front of your main building. I think composition could have been improved by moving to a different angle.
I see alot of stuff inthe pic - not much of the subject thoug. It hasn't fallen and looks like a wall? Are the traffic lights important to the message you are trying to communicate? if not, try another angle to elimnate them. Same for the red tractor, streetlight, etc.
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