Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
-Malvina Reynolds
Editing: crop/rotate, clone out some bird poop, color balance, hue/saturation, selective color, resize, USM and export.
POST: Thanks for the comments! Looks like half of you liked the vertical, the other half not. I choose to keep it portrait because it looks like you could just walk across them like a boardwalk. Also, they look more like stacked boxes as well as frets on a guitar. I considered B&W but it wouldn't go with the song.
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Interesting - let's say 'arresting' approach; after a while looking, I have to say I don;t quite think it succeeds - perhaps simply because its subject is too plain, so that, even rotated, it's plainly just a bunch of row-houses turned through 90 degrees. The point is, it absolutely feels like a posting mistake, rather than an artistic statement.
Perfect captures of the challenge. The 90 degree flip really keeps it interesting and adds a lot more than if it were still horizontal. Also, having the image against the overcast sky really makes you feel that blah feeling the suburbs can carry. Great job!
Nice image - Really like the subject, tones and real suburbia feel to this.... Why though did you rotate the image. I find that too distracting. Trying to make a boring subject interesting by turning it seems to have gone against you for this as I love the image the right way round - Screams suburbia. Now rotated though I find it too distracting.
Little boxes, all the same. There's a green one and a pink one, And a blue one and a yellow one, And they're all made out of ticky-tacky, And they all look just the same.
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