Nice light and colour.

Bam! Nice one, Sammy!

Hopefully, this will silence some in the peanut gallery.

Hey Sam, this is a very nice shot... I love how dark it is... but hey, I'm a sucker for dark images... and Matt, it wont silence them, they will still make comments that are completely useless -__-

Creative and neat concept.
I really like the lighting :)

this photo tells a story. the lighting is almost like a portrait.

Nice Subject Matter. The Broken Pieces of Glass Really Give It Some Sparkle!

I think I'm getting to know this psychiatric facility too well just from all the photos everyone posts from it. It seems like everyone in the GTA needs to have some photos up on their blog from that place for some reason. That aside, this is cool. I like the lighting and the broken glass..

Well, I choose to differ. Usually I like your photography very much, but this one doesn't work for me. There's nothing wrong with a dark picture, but here the shape doesn't stand out enough against the background. It's just an unrecognizable blob now.

Henk: I can (I think I can speak for everyone else too) CLEARLY see what's going on in this photo. Maybe you have to turn up your monitor's brightness a tad.. say 200% .. :)

I really don't understand you people who come on here to back up Sam's photography. He's a great photographer, but if you look at any artist, they won't have great pieces of work everytime. Therefore, sometiemes the photos may actually be horrible. Sometimes the photos may be beautiful. If you people don't stop letting everyone criticize the photos, he won't get any better. You love all his work because of his old awesome stuff. He could take a photo of anything and you guys would think it was good. Let people critique the photos. They tell him it's good when it's good too. Picasso painted a painting every day of his life, and not all his turned out excellent, and people told him that. Let the people critique.
There.

At last some people are talking. There is nothing special about this photo. I don't understand why people come here to say how nice a photo is when there is nothing in it. Being a professional photographer, I can say Sam is a good photographer and that's it. He has some good photos and some extremly bad like this one. I think people only come here to praise the worst photos as good just because they are friends with Sam, or want to be his friends, or want self promotions. I'm sorry Sam. You have some really nice photos, but those are rarely seen now.

today's post left me scrambling for the minimize button. after a lengthy recorvery period, i was able to bring myself to maximize the image again, but i had to gradually immunize myself to this horrifcally framed injustice to the art of photography.

I think its great. I honestly dont much like the photos of whitby psych... the building just looks like a pile of junk now, but this one i like. the lighting and the matching tones of the colours make the photo beautiful despite the broken and decrepid subject matter. The earth metal tone is great.

Again and again with the art debate. Its subjective there is no such thing as good or bad in art its just opinion.

what ive noticed about artsy fartsy types is that they usually are not remembered for standing out, because they are too limited in their views to really do something special and unique. Van Gogh was told by the same sort of people that his art was not good as well.

Once again ill ask "when has sam ever promised great artwork to anyone??"

i agree with scott on this photo. the color tones match well although it is a bit dark but not so dark that i can't tell what's going on.

there's nothing wrong with critiquing artwork but there is something wrong with just slamming the artwork because you "don't like it" and can't give any kind of explanation why. most of the negative posters here sound like they have never been in a critique. generally, a moderator asks why you feel a certain way about the artwork in question. you don't like it? why? is it framed improperly? is the lighting wrong? does it remind you of your broken childhood? ANYTHING?

constructive criticism is great. it helps the artist grow and improve. negative criticism does nothing but make the person saying it look like a jealous ass.

I wonder how much each visitors hardware/software setup relates to their opinion of the image.

The fan in this photo is certainly not an "unrecognizable blob". I can clearly make out each of the blades attachment screws and the subtle blue shade of the blades adds a nice touch of color.

I like how the foremost blue blade and the larger pile of shattered glass in the upper right compete for my eye's attention.

I really like this photo and no, to the one who commented, I am not a friend of Sam's. Just because you don't like it means that no one else does. I think this photo has nice depth between the light broken pieces in the background and the deep (but not too dark) fan. I especially like the little splash of blue in an otherwise monochromatic image. I like the level of detail and the mood this photo has. Very nice image Sam.

the picture's nice. Adds more to the intensity when looked at it on a Snowy day. The texture seems to highlight the photographer's precision

Nice shot. I like the focus on the fan blade that's catching the light. I'd love to see it with a shallow depth of field and possibly more brilliant colour for the fan blades.

simply splendid!

NOT!

I see chemical balance has found a new home .. Hi there buddy.

imbalance, balance.. whatever..

miklos, get used to it dood. now that u've said that you're in for it.

and trust me... i'm NOT your buddy.

One of the best compositions yet. Well done.

One simple comment about himself and chemical imbalance is already ready for war. Relax man. I think we all know you aren't one of Sam's fan. If you don't like his photos, put your comment in a proper an civilised way. Give reasons why you don't like it. Don't simply put it down blindly. I agree Sam's photos can be boring at times but hey, this is HIS site. You don't tell the author what to write, you give comments about his writing. Reread your comments man, vocabulary rich as it is, it carries no purpose. And Sam, you're doing what you love to do. I respect that.

Max, No, I think trolls are the biggest of Sam's fans.

I like this shot for the same reason I like post-apocolyptic sci fi.

I like ddoi because of the breadth and basic aesthetics... sound to generic or simple a praise? well that's because one really should judge images by how one feels, if you share the aethetic, you like it. If you are working on your craft as a photographer ---that's fine! of course you want a teacup tinking society with which to discuss better and worse, but then you wander out to the world and face a real audience that IS NOT photographers... not if you are really an artist.

So many other photoblogs have a theme. The photos follow a theme, however great the theme, the theme is limiting. That and a lot of people pictures. I don't like pictures of people too much, though I won't call them banal and self absorbed... even though they are. Dang... I did it. Well, anyway, to each his own. ddoi does have a breadth that includes dilapidated industrial shots and colors of fall. I can come here daily and get not only variety but a nice image. People that criticise that unsharpen is used or yada yada are like people that said that Pink Floyd sucked because they used special effects, that rap wasn't real music because it sampled, that electric guitar wasn't real music because of the electricity. They can't be proven wrong.

But the audience, the real hedonists and ultimate authority on what sparks the artistic receptors of the brain, always overrule. And we like Sam's photos.

Not that yourn are not "better". They can be "better" and I just not like them.

Very nice with the broken glass!

Nice subject, but I do not enjoy the lightning on this one, you should bring your flash with you and explore the possiblities with that :)

i just saw the movie 'Saw' last night...and this shot definitely reminds me of it. i wouldn't think a shot of a broken fan could be so interesting...nice job sam!

I think i have come to a state of simply ignoring chemical imbalance.

Anyhow, pretty nice photo. By far not my favorite one of Sam's photos though.

Some fans are more broken than others.

Very Well Put, Kathy!