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Posted by bluechameleon (Vancouver, Canada) on 20 March 2009 in Business & Industry.
“All our lives we search for someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance the song of heartbreak and hope all the while,wondering if somewhere,somehow there is someone searching for us”
-- anonymous
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sherri from Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Such a large railroad yard and you found an excellent vantage point.
20 Mar 2009 5:21am
Shutterbug from Chennai, India
hey, good perspective. I'm wondering if you will consider the old-film grain effect? i have a feeling it will enhance the depth/value of this image!
20 Mar 2009 5:41am
@Shutterbug: Hmmm...I see your point. Do you have a specific method in mind or are you just speaking generally? Thank you :)
Matt Sutton from Sydney, Australia
well compressed to contain so much. pleasing lines. solitary man
20 Mar 2009 6:08am
Jean-François from Les Issambres, France
impressionnant ! quelle image tu nous donnes là ............... à en avoir le vertige de la vie ! BRAVO !
20 Mar 2009 6:27am
Pradeep from Chennai, India
Wonderful shot...great forms and lines, very dynamic light too :)
20 Mar 2009 6:45am
Toni from Eastern Washington, United States
I love your quote - it's so very true. ;-) He seems such a lonely figure on the tracks, looking for love. Excellent shot.
20 Mar 2009 6:50am
Krims@nline.be from Wemmel, Belgium
Wonderfull, love the angle, the composition and the title is really up to the point. Well done!
20 Mar 2009 6:53am
k@ from Paris, France
As you guess (with my Metropolitanesques serie) i just love that shot, its frame, your B&W, the great set and the man lost within it - thanks for this vision of yours*
20 Mar 2009 7:11am
Robert Kruh from Slovenia
Beautiful composition of the man in center of photograph! Great work!
20 Mar 2009 7:29am
Angel from Madrid, Spain
The lines diagonals that form the channels and the wagons are a wonder. The isolated man gives character to the image. “The man in front of the machine”. Very conceptual
Greetings
20 Mar 2009 7:56am
P J W Miller from Chase Terrace, United Kingdom
So much going on here, very interesting, the diagonal lines give it almost a 3 d effect
20 Mar 2009 8:47am
Evelyne Dubos from Le Mans, France
What a great great composition !! The diagonals of rails, freiht trains at the top of the image and this man alone in this industral environment, just in the middle... and a strong B&W... very powerful shot. Love that.
20 Mar 2009 9:53am
kiji from valenciennes City of Lights, France
Beaitful B&W compo. Lines are very interesting
20 Mar 2009 10:36am
Linerberry from Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand
Very poignant image and words...Bravo!!!
20 Mar 2009 11:26am
Cheryl from Texas, United States
I love the human in this shot for perspective. beautiful compo!
20 Mar 2009 11:37am
JoeB from Brampton, Canada
We always think there is something better around the corner, meanwhile it could be standing right in front of you.
20 Mar 2009 11:56am
Laurie from New Jersey, United States
This is an excellent composition with the lone rail worker. Great high perspective.
20 Mar 2009 12:05pm
dogilicious from Millerstown, PA, United States
I am preferring lost over "suicide." Excellent work.
20 Mar 2009 1:01pm
john4jack from Corvallis, United States
Superb composition! Marvelous contrast. On the quote, I don't believe that anyone else can make us complete; we have to that ourselves; and then we share our wholeness with another. We definitely need community and community provides the support and love we need to enable us to become complete.
20 Mar 2009 2:09pm
Sumedh Prasad from New Delhi, India
That is a wonderful photograph!
Having said that, it is our search itself which we have failed to see as peculiar. It assumes, because of the way we are brought up and the way we are conditioned, that we are incomplete by ourselves. It is because we have never truly know our own real Self, that we feel that incompleteness, and then go in the completely wrong direction by trying to fulfill that intrinsic void with extrinsic things - people, achievements, possessions, etc.
Because every child, from the very beginning, is convinced by its parents, schools, societies and religions that they have to improve, they are not good as they are, they have to become like someone else, that they are incomplete.
So naturally, if an oak tries to be like the pine and the pine tries to be like the vine and the vine tries to be like the marigolds and the marigolds try to be like the roses, they would all give up and die. Just like our own society, where instead of bringing out the unique beauty in every individual, everyone tries to fulfill an imaginary emptiness.
20 Mar 2009 2:23pm
Ilan from Israel
I love industrial shots like that. Always make me feel small (well, that guy there is a great ratio teller :))
Awesome frame!
20 Mar 2009 2:43pm
Ronnie 2¢ from London, United Kingdom
One of those shots that looks like it has a tale or two to tell . . although perhaps not the best place to find a sou- mate . . but, who knows ?
20 Mar 2009 3:02pm
Ajay from Pune, India
A visibly great composition and a very self-examining quote.
20 Mar 2009 3:10pm
Craig@Random Ramblings from Herts, United Kingdom
I really like this and it has great tones. I am becoming convinced however that you carry a lone figure around with you just to put in the scene ;O) Great work as always!
20 Mar 2009 3:17pm
Angelique from Netherlands
Love the story that's going on here.
Perfect in black and white!
20 Mar 2009 3:25pm
Nataly from Santa Monica, United States
How did you spot this one person there? Did you spent all day just waiting for all to clear and then this one guy just walks through? Amazing find! I like the variety of textures here very much.
20 Mar 2009 4:19pm
Anthony Lambert from Bielefeld, Germany
A great place to go hunting for shots,although a bit dangerous !! I love all the lines made by the tracks and the goods trains really stand out in B+W.
20 Mar 2009 4:22pm
peter from new york, United States
the composition is excellent and the supporting quote compliments this perfectly. excellent work!
20 Mar 2009 4:25pm
Eugene Nikiforov from Northport, United States
great composition, glad you kept it in B&W
20 Mar 2009 6:45pm
Alivia from Saint-Etienne, France
Sought all his life .. but sometimes you find these tracks .. and these ways cross, seems uncertainty paths.. shuntings are those we did not take .. but in a railway station .. can put his bag of grief and find happiness in the next .. your photo is so evocative, your strong contrasts show the harshness of life path...
20 Mar 2009 7:16pm
António Pires from Lisbon, Portugal
What a sense of movement. Superb composition.
20 Mar 2009 7:27pm
Hema Iyer from Bangalore, India
Superb shot. Love the angle and the comsposition.
20 Mar 2009 7:34pm
Andy from United States
Love all the lines from the tracks. It seems this man is lost in a sea of trains.
20 Mar 2009 8:28pm
Anna.C from LA ROCHELLE, France
great composition ! very powerful ! I love the strong contrasts, the differents lines and perspective !
20 Mar 2009 8:37pm
mo.langel from Courtelary, Switzerland
Une toute belle et grande photo! Bravo! J'aime!!!!
20 Mar 2009 9:18pm
Polydactyle from Montreal, Canada
One man among the machines. It seeks what ... it is the only one to know
The lines are superb and the b/w always perfect.
20 Mar 2009 9:50pm
Twelvebit from Victoria, United States
It's the man in the middle that makes the shot.
20 Mar 2009 10:04pm
Suzanne from Huntington Bch, California, United States
Terrific image. I love the light quality and the composition.
20 Mar 2009 10:35pm
Mike Paulison from United States
Love trains and especially a trainyard. Wish I could find one.
I really like the look of the small person aside the massive trains. The lines of all those tracks cutting diagonally across the frame is very nice. A bit of a sniper feel. I think we should see the shot following this one to make sure.
21 Mar 2009 1:11am
Tripodhead from Norwell, United States
The quote makes this lone moving image even more moving. This photograph is so very nice and so unique.
21 Mar 2009 1:19am
Christopher from Atlanta, United States
I love BW shots like this. The feel is wonderful.
21 Mar 2009 1:34am
Ivar from Indianapolis, United States
Great lines and the perfect title for this shot... Very good
21 Mar 2009 2:22am
dik from McAllen, United States
Exquisite. I can see why you are so highly regarded as a photographer. Thanks for your dedication.
21 Mar 2009 3:35am
Stu from Kyoto, Japan
Super shot! Love the compo and strong lines, very graphic and moving.
21 Mar 2009 3:36am
DarkElf from Perth, Australia
excellent angle and a great choice of shot for the b&w treatment! love the tracks running across and good contrast throughout!
21 Mar 2009 2:28pm
613photo from United States
The man is absolutely dwarfed by his surroundings. That's our relationship with the modern world in a nutshell. The one we have created for ourselves overwhelms us. Used to be it was nature that did that.
I like that he's such a small part of the photo but it's exactly where the eye goes. Excellent work as usual.
21 Mar 2009 10:58pm
Susan from United States
Love the symmetry of the tracks and the way the man is completely isolated and centered. Perfect quote. Excellent.
22 Mar 2009 2:43pm
Katie from Toronto, Canada
My images are unique?? Wow Look at your work! This is amazing! I can never pull off a great b/w image. Btw, thanks for the comments on my website.
31 Mar 2009 3:24am
@Katie: Thanks Katie, and yes they are. I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to your blog :)
Nikon D70
1/90 second
F/4.5
ISO 200
70 mm