The exit used by tin miners on leaving the locker rooms after a hard day in the mine. The mine closed just over 20yrs. ago (one of the last tin mines in Cornwall) after more than two hundred years. The walls of the corridor are lined with photos of the last miners to work there.
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COMPOSITION A well lit, wonderfully evocative scene. Your choice of vantage point draws beautiful lines all throughout your photo that naturally lead the eye and draw my interest. The shadows are deep and dark, but still reveal a teasing hint of detail. After wandering over the architectural highlights, my eye is naturally drawn to the photos on the walls. The two at the far end are clearly recognizable as portraits, but who are they? The closer photos on the walls are indecipherable due to the perspective. Your title doesn't leave any clues (but sets the emotional stage). I'm glad I had your photo notes to help me interpret the scene. I'd love to have seen other perspectives that would have shown a few of the miners' faces in some detail, but this would have meant drastically changing your composition.
TECHNIQUE Nearly perfect. There are a few blown highlights on the upper beams but this hardly matters in a wondrous scene as this. You've captured such perfect earth tones with such a variety of different feels for each wall, the floor, the woodwork, etc. It's all very well done. Textures are visible throughout owing to your excellent focus, deep dof, and near perfect exposure.
OVERALL IMPACT This is a wonderful photograph and one that you should be very proud to have created. It drips with feeling: loneliness, emptiness (great title), abandonment, etc. Like all great pictures, it suggests stories; poses questions for the viewer. It drew me in and I'm honored to have had the chance to study it closely.
You have some good, strong contrast in the middle of your photo, but for me I wonder if this would have a greater impact if the wall on the right side was cropped out completely? Nice photo.
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