After the Fall...

[RainPacket]

Today, I took the afternoon and just went photographing things all over. Out of about 163 photos, I had a couple particular keepers. This one, I'm rather fond of; there's an abandoned freeway ramp, built ages ago but never connected up to things, that runs through part of a park here in Seattle. Needless to say, it's become overgrown with moss, trees stretch over it, and so on.

I spotted a giant grassy stretch I wanted to photograph, and as I was doing so, two people came walking down the long ramp. (It reaches up and over the water, so you can get some nice views from the upper end of it, and it's a reasonably nice little walk.) Something about the view just struck me... it seems like something you might see after technology fails and cities become overgrown, or a 'return to nature' or something. I actually set the exposure slightly wrong when I knelt to take the shot, and ended up with a sort of odd quality to the light which, in the end, I liked better than what I had intended.

Either way, I'm curious what others think of it -- both technically, and compositionally. Thus... here it is!

[jiminyClickit]

RainPacket,

Storytelling is still my favorite part of the process, not in words but through the image. Tree decay (or damage), unfinished lightpole bolts on bridge rail, body language of couple, contrasts everywhere in tones. Your instincts are trustworthy.

From the first, I did feel a leaning to the left, a 5-degree-or-less thing that could be ignored. The verticals in railing, just a little off. Since couple and tree lean too, it may be accentuating it. Not suggesting change, just that it caught my notice. As always, quality work.

The title? Story?

[Saralonde]

Nice that those 2 people came walking by at the right time. They give a nice focal point to your shot with the tree and the curved wall contributing to that. Good idea to kneel; it gave a nicer angle then if you were standing.