It doesn't appeal to me. I think the bottles and that post distract too much from an otherwise nice landscape scene. The small section of road does nothing to enhance the image.
Alan321 wrote:
It doesn't appeal to me. I think the bottles and that post distract too much from an otherwise nice landscape scene. The small section of road does nothing to enhance the image.
Picture the top half only, minus that pole.
- Alan
I think you missed the point. I just visited his website and I think if he wanted to take a landscape picture he wouldn't have even stopped for this one. The point was to take a picture of the bottles someone left lined up like soldiers along the roadside. So to suggest that he should crop them out would be pointless.
Aside from the post I really like this image. It speaks to me of farming and the sometimes loneliness of it all. Perhaps reshoot it and recompose the shot so the post is gone and the creek starts in the lower left portion of the frame and more empty farm land to the right
I understand where Alan is coming from. I tried a couple of shots where I framed more tightly on the bottles with much less background, but I didn't like them as much. I guess that should have been a clue that I needed something else.
It definitely caught me off guard. I was not expecting to see that many empty containers on a roadside. This was about 7am on Saturday. If they were drinking all of that the night before, they should still be there passed out... That would have made for some interesting shots!
I just had a thought. Could it be that someone was going to take target practice at them but got chased or scared off before they could start shooting?
I hadn't considered that, but it does seem likely. I hate to think they were firing across the road like that... you know... the road I'm driving down and standing in the middle of while I take pictures!
