Waste Not, Want Not

[seamus finn]

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[wmchauncey]

Would you hang that in your living room?

[armand]

There are plenty of green organizations out there.

[BobDavid]

+1

[RSL]

Yeah, I'd hang it, but my wife would take it down.

[Mike Brown]

I like this, provocative, yet I enjoy the colours, pattern and shapes amongst the jumble also. As a teacher I would most definitely hang this on my classroom wall. As a husband, I suspect my wife would also remove it from our wall.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Seamus, that is a great photo. There is something of Gursky and Burtynsky combined in it. I can easily see it in any museum of modern arts or exhibition. The contrast of a happy family walking by and the background is great metaphorically. If I may suggest, I would make it even more panoramic, by cutting off the very bottom, almost up to the street level and benches. The very bottom part adds nothing to the story but distraction.

[seamus finn]

Seamus, that is a great photo. There is something of Gursky and Burtynsky combined in it. I can easily see it in any museum of modern arts or exhibition. The contrast of a happy family walking by and the background is great metaphorically. If I may suggest, I would make it even more panoramic, by cutting off the very bottom, almost up to the street level and benches. The very bottom part adds nothing to the story but distraction.

Believe it or not, my first instinct was exactly as you suggest. Than, fatally, I changed my mind. Thanks for your kind comment.

[stamper]

Perhaps a little less of a crop? Crop at the first horizontal line in the brickwork below where you cropped. Overall a nice pleasing image that is worth viewing more than once so worth spending some time getting the crop "right"

[David Eckels]

Seamus, that is a great photo. There is something of Gursky and Burtynsky combined in it. I can easily see it in any museum of modern arts or exhibition. The contrast of a happy family walking by and the background is great metaphorically. If I may suggest, I would make it even more panoramic, by cutting off the very bottom, almost up to the street level and benches. The very bottom part adds nothing to the story but distraction.

I agree but watch the aspect ratio IMHO.

[MattBurt]

Great sense of scale and detail here! I could imagine this in Smithsonian or National Geographic magazine.

[seamus finn]

Thanks, everybody - much appreciated.