Collection:Where I Live Camera:Canon Power Shot SX10 IS Location: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Date: Jun 1, 2009 Aperture: 4.0 ISO: 250 Shutter: 1/60 Date Uploaded: Jun 11, 2009
Okay, so this laneway doesn't look exactly like this (unless maybe you've been smoking something funny.) It is a combination of two lanes that lead into (or out of) the main shopping mall. One of them is very tame but with some officially sanctioned wall art near the mall end, the other has a pretty bleak character and has the sort of graffiti that the other stuff is meant to discourage.
I've lost track of what I did to it, but equalize and poster edges were involved.
Timing to get the person in mid-stride was perfect. The little group of circular symbols with diagonal slashes conveys a full set of authoritarian "don't do this or that" instructions where little official attention exists. Artful on many levels.