I love the subtleties of the clouds in all your architecture pictures;
Truly an inspiration to me

Alan

i know that alley!
some fine memories walking to school, looking down that alley...

i used to live at yonge and wellesley... makes me miss TO now that i'm back in california =(

very nice picture though.

there is snow, but feeling warm. great texture.

Great colors in this one, and the composition is perfect ! Well done !

Gorgeous, rich colors; really beautiful sky and wonderful composition.

Nice contrast. Especially against the dark ground.

I find it funny how, in this image, the snow ads to the garbagy look about the scene. Quite a unique shade of red brick wall.

Not a pretty picture but one to suggest time for reconstruction. No where on earth seems to escape the scars of time.

Sam,
I'm emerging from the abyss of the internet to comment once more - thank you, again, for our conversation several months ago about your photos of bikes etc. via email. So this photo: it is very "you," and that's a good thing, because you have a distinct style. But inevitably, I have some criticism I'd like to humbly offer.

You have great colors here - wonderful slate-blue sky, solid brick tones; even the dirt is really interesting. And the trash bags add a nice jolt of yellow, which is actually growing on me as I look at the image. But then there's the car. Why include that? Clearly, it would have been impossible to keep the sign and lose the car, but I think the image would have benefited greatly if you had cropped it in tighter, or reframed from the beginning. Because now it looks a little careless, and loses significant punch aesthetically, even if it is "documentary."

Which brings me to a broader point: you have this great 10-22mm lens (in fact, I was looking at it for a while to use on my 20D, but ultimately decided on something else.) But I think you have to be careful how you use your ultra-wide perspective. Sometimes it feels as though you take a shot at 10mm just to use the 10mm - which, again, makes the framing (or lack of subsequent cropping) appear to have been done without very much deliberation.

I'll leave it at that. Thanks for listening, and for the impressive feat of posting as you do every day.

I like this one! It's made genius! I'm watching your blog for a while now and I love the pictures you made. They're a bit mysterious, I've you know what I mean. I'd like to do something with photo's when I'm older, and when I'm not longer at school. It sounds weird, but you inspire me. I learn a lot of your picture's.
I wish you a lot of happines and much more photographs!
Bye, Jaella
Excuses for my horrible Englisch, cause I don't speak normally Englisch, I live in the Netherlands.

Very nice composition! Red wall looks quite massive and strong. Sharp shadows look good, colors you managed very well. I especially like the cables, because they break through the symmetry of the wall and it's texture. Just the car I would have left out of sight. Somehow disturbes the battered style of the whole scenery.

I'm sorry... but what's with all the alley's and the garbage bags in them?
Did you break up with someone and you're in a funk, or do you just see the colors and I only see the garbage?
- Chuck
P.S. Nancy and I are getting along fine.
Pax Vobiscum.

Fascinating -- makes you wonder whether the parking sign is really necessary!

Well this is one of ur worst pics man hehehe lot of simplicity and lack of style... bye sam

There must have been a sale on red paint. It looks like they just slapped it on everything. Nice tones.

I love it how the snow is slowly melting away in all of throughout the past pictures.

سلام .
عکسهای تلفیقی رو دوست دارم.
اهن و سیمان و کابل برق.
موفق باشی و سال نوت مبارک.استاکر.

Wonderful colors. i like especially the contrast.

Great architecrure. I'm thinking about what all that wires doing there.

I like the car as part of the composition - it adds a diagonal and mirrors the angled patch on the right, and it gives action - it looks like it has just driven into the shot. It's shiny newness is a fun contrast to the dereliction of the rest of the picture. It also adds to the narrative - one wonders if the driver is authorized. Are the garbage bags authorized? Lovely colours in this one, and of course, interesting wispy clouds. Thanks for sharing, Sam!

I'm really not fond of the car in this composition. It makes the shot feel more like a snapshot to me.

I'm finding the comments on your site increasingly interesting, and wonder how they affect the way I think of your images. I also appreciate the way that some contributors write in a language which is not their first language, whilst others stick to their own, which is an equally fair decision (in case anyone thinks I'm criticising; I'm not, I'm fairly hopeless at other languages, despite trying).
Also, the way the pictures come up on screen: with this one I saw the top third first, and thought it was a shot from your trip to Italy! Only scrolling down did I see the snow, the rubbish (just proving I'm English!) and the car. This would be very different from seeing the images blown up large-scale in an art gallery.

someone sure likes red buildings!