I love the character of the building, especially the tonality, and that bike! What a little lady in red!
Posted by RyanK at February 7, 2006 12:56 AMGreat picture, the color and symetry are a perfect mix. I love the texture.
Posted by Al Doan at February 7, 2006 01:07 AMhi Sam.
beautiful are ur pictures.like many ov them.
workin' professionally with the 350D.
success
tnx
The face at the top of the pipe makes it for me
Posted by brendan at February 7, 2006 01:24 AMI concur, Sam! Fabulous textures and a fun red bike for contrast. Lovely colours in all that weathered stone, too. I marvel at how much work it must have been to create those walls back in the day.....no one would ever have the patience to become a stonemason now.
I wonder what festival the finale was for?
Interesting that the head on the window sill 2 stories up is right over the bike's basket. A "festival finale," indeed!
Posted by paul at February 7, 2006 02:28 AMGreat photo.
Posted by Victor at February 7, 2006 03:01 AMI`m very love your photos!
Posted by xianglin fu at February 7, 2006 04:09 AMthe face up top and the green behind red get me, excellent !
Posted by shane j montgomery at February 7, 2006 04:22 AMWhile I can't say I'm a big fan of these shots, the perspective lines drew me down to the bike in the center of the picture. I like the contrast in the layers of grime in the building and the high contrast.
Posted by seriocomic at February 7, 2006 04:35 AMGreat spot, especially with the bike being red. Very well shot considering keeping those verticles in perspective is very hard to do.
Posted by Dean Sherwood at February 7, 2006 05:06 AMthis seems a little overexposed on the bottom, especially on the festival finale sign. might be the effect of a contrast adjustment or the diversity of light ranges throughout the picture...
Posted by moritz at February 7, 2006 05:15 AMi think the 'red' of the bike in contrast with the typically british grey walls makes the sense of it all.
Posted by arash at February 7, 2006 06:32 AMintersting conglomerat. the gothic elements appears on the profan house as well, so they belongs togehter. and then this smal bike as a symbol of contemporary living.
Posted by *mamo at February 7, 2006 07:54 AMSam, excellent lines, they draw you into the photo.
Posted by Chris [57 Degrees] at February 7, 2006 08:23 AMI can't believe that Jesus would park his bike there. Even more unbelievable, is that Jesus had a basket on his bike. I'm not implying anything, just saying.
Posted by keith at February 7, 2006 08:43 AMI love the old combined with the new. The little sign at the bottom catches my eye as well.
Posted by Micki in Virginia at February 7, 2006 09:48 AMComposition is excellent, particularly the symmetry with heterogeneous objects: the columns and the pipe. I like the colour contrast of the red bike, but find the displays on the ground (particularly the blue one close to the font wheel) really disturbing.
Great photo, Sam!
Hi Sam
Don't get me wrong I love your work, but this image is not exactly what I like, I absolutely hate the vertical lens correction. It makes the window skewed. But oh well like the textures though. Regards
Paolo
Good juxtaposition and a wonderful conglomerate of textures and geometric shapes, let alone the old and the new....
P.S. It's not the christ church, just christ church
Posted by ned at February 7, 2006 01:31 PMLady in red it is indeed. But I remember lady in red wasn't that shy to hide at a corner!!! Or maybe it's the festival finale that makes her so sad and nostalgic.
Aout the texture and bikes I have to agree with you. Although two different subjects with nothing similar, but they are always captured in your photos the best way possible.
Keep up the good job.
it just doesnt look wet. and its kind of flat, actually really flat. i personally think you could do better.
ps. i think this would be a good situation for a situation where a polarizer would've ideally helped to bring out the shiny wet stone and mirror up the windows
Posted by darren at February 7, 2006 05:12 PMHi Sam, I love your work and visit DDOI every day. About this image though... There's just something not right about the perspective, some lines looks straight but others twist your mind and just don't look right (the windows are a good example, as someone else remarked). This seems like the kind of photo that needs to be taken using a shift-capable lens, like the canon TS-E 24mm ... Pricey but it could save you some post-production perspective correction headaches.
Posted by AndreB at February 7, 2006 05:19 PMnice shots lately sam, although im a bit dissapointed to see that you haven't posted any pictures qualified under: "unbelievable and impossible" lately..although hey, maybe ur just saving up for a big surprise! anyway, nice shot again, i particularly like the detail on the walls of the building.
Posted by Andy at February 7, 2006 08:25 PMIf you like bikes and textures, go to Amsterdam!
Posted by Travis at February 7, 2006 08:31 PMBeautiful, you’re right the wall does belong to the Christ church. It’s amazing; I feel the same with Bikes and texture. You came to the right place for it by the way; at times it’s impossible to do street photography in Oxford without bikes appearing in your shots.
Posted by Kamyar at February 8, 2006 01:22 PMI thought it was my hometown of Cambridge, until I read your text.
Posted by odd at February 11, 2006 08:03 AMNo one does bikes and textures like you do - or fotos of any kind as far as I am concerned. I love the perspective here - great shot!
Posted by Abe at February 17, 2006 05:23 AMKathy,
I have tha patience to be a stonemason now. Well rewarding work. Making history :)
Regards James Lewis
Wanaka
New Zealand