Headed Home
by GeneralE

Comment by mikala:
darkness?

Headed Home
by GeneralE

Comment by _Io_:
Can't see how this meets the challenge as the shadows aren't very deep. Odd bit of lens flair on there was well. 2

Black(bird) and Blue
by GeneralE

Comment by elemess:
Interesting idea, but it doesn't completely work. Maybe see the whole bird? Have the antenna fill more of the frame? Keep it away from the bird? I do like the focus and the black vs blue.

Black(bird) and Blue
by GeneralE

Comment by tjbel05:
EERIE

Black(bird) and Blue
by GeneralE

Comment by HighwayFlower:
background to distracting.

Black(bird) and Blue
by GeneralE

Comment by BMacD:
Liked the framing and pose of the bird. Found the background distracting

Black(bird) and Blue
by GeneralE

Comment by amber:
I like the ggraphic quality of this image. With the bird sitting up above too it reminds me of Hitchcock's 'the birds' :)

Infill Through the Knothole
by GeneralE

Comment by GeneralE:

Originally posted by ddng: A different idea for a photo and yet I think it could have been executed better. Your photo seems a little too busy and more like a 'happy snap' rather than a well thought out and well composed photographic work of art.

Originally posted by Minstrel: fun idea. like spying. But what you're spying on could be a little more exciting...

Thanks for the comments (everyone!). This is definitely more journalistic than "artistic" in intent and execution.

I don't know about exciting -- modest residential construction probably shouldn't be exciting, since that usually means somethng is not going according to plan ...

It actually is quite "composed" for a capture of an actual scene, much better than the other shots from which I could have chosen. Specific elements I feel contribute to the effectiveness of this as a record of a construction scene are:

@ Worker in foreground concentrating on a task.
@ Worker in the background, possibly carrying something
@ Plans on the table in the center
@ Concrete forms on the right lined up with the edge of the hole
@ Wheelbarrow in profile in the BG
@ Dug out area in front of forms
@ Relatively good detail of forms construction

I'm trying to document the contruction of this house by shooting from the same position each day -- hopefully to eventually make a time-lapse movie of it.

Black(bird) and Blue
by GeneralE

Comment by emorgan49:
interesting take on urban wildlife - i like it

Black(bird) and Blue
by GeneralE

Comment by froglet:
Bumping this up to 9 - I really like this shot, an 'ordinary' bird, shot creatively, well done.