Like a haiku. Wonderful the green colour

Very interesting photo.

Your blog makes me want to visit toronto

rob

i enjoy the geometry in this one, the way in which the top corners are framed by signs, and the bold colors of the bike. its a photo of simple subject matter which turns out quite good.

All I can hope is that you were too busy to post anything else today. Pardon me for saying so "publicly," but this is an image that should have been deleted in-camera, or shortly thereafter. Shocking compared to your recent, refreshing macro.

Did you consider making it all black and white except for the green on the bike? That may have looked quite neat.

Looks like a night rider. It must not be yours; it has a seat. :)

the green bike with the green sign make a great composition. i love it. its sumertime.

I really love the way the bike contrasts with the green backround...the elements so simple yet so beautiful...I love your work ...keep it up!

I'm still searching for this photo's redeeming quality. It's not even from a cool perspective -- I can see you standing there taking this picture which, like Nathan said, should have been deleted soon after you took it. The "bold" signs that "frame" this are simply distracting and the bike (hardly original subject matter, I think you'll agree) doesn't really deserve the attention of your thousands of loyal daily visitors.

You must be too busy to take shots like the thorn macro or the iced tea shot.

good luck with the show

Did everyone miss the cunningly contrived lead-in of this composition?
The dark rectangle under the bike's rear wheel,
echoed by the doormat(?) in front of the ale sign and finally, as a dark doorstep, taking the viewer deep into that darkly mysterious entrance!
Who lives there? Is their rent paid up? Is it, perhaps, their bike? Does the green indicate Irish ownership?
Only Sam can be so subtle in developing composition! Right, Sam?

note for the photographer :

if you have no interesting pic to show, it would be better to put NOTHING intead of "empty" pics like ths one.

you are capable of wonderful things, really i don't get it !!!

Excellent colors and funny situation of this bick!

'gards.
pierre-nelson.

"Those who like it, like it alot." Those who don't complain.

You don't always have to like a picture for a reason. Maybe you just like it... Another show? Good Luck!

Such a simple setting...yet the "photographer" sees it differently, uniquely! I would have walked past that scene on that sidewalk 100 times and not "seen" it the way you captured it. Very nice.

it's kind of funny and at the same time sad or if one looks at it in some other way, happy, that if this photo was posted in some other site, it would've got absolutely zero comments, and IF there was any, it would've been a comment from someone who was pissed off at it being posted [this comment being posted follows a similar story]. then again, if anybody else had painted a painting of picasso, most probably the story would've been the same. whether it's the respect or fame or both that results in such ironies, is different in every case. it seems it's hard to say whether this comment is a compliment or critism or both, even for the commentator :)

We can tell your love for bikes :-)

have seen this in my own home town/soon to be city....the older I get the more I resent so many changes.

I can't believe how critical people are! This is a beautiful shot. I come here and to other excellent photo blogs daily, and if I say it's interesting then it's interesting. So there! It's a lucky, particular, and beautiful moment in time that probably no one else will ever shoot. That alone makes it special, never mind those cool signs in the back and the interesting greens. Thanks for this blog and for the daily pleasures it brings.

Nathan wrote: "All I can hope is that you were too busy to post anything else today. Pardon me for saying so "publicly," but this is an image that should have been deleted in-camera, or shortly thereafter. Shocking compared to your recent, refreshing macro."

Sam, this is so ironic since I was eavesdropping on your interview at the gallery yesterday afternoon when you talked about this sort of criticism of your site.

Keep it up!

Phil

I think the fact the the majority of commentors here enjoy this shot, lowers my respect for this site. You know this is a bad photograph Sam. This is a simple snapshot. The composition is not marvellous. The composition is simply and repetitive. You shouldn't have posted this. It does prove my opinion that photoblogs have become about the photographer and not the viewer.

Also, that blogspot link in one of the comments is so lame.

... it's odd to see Keith's Beer advertised somewhere else but here in Halifax, ... :)

Good shot, i like it!

Great colors. I really apprecuate your boldness with saturation.