Another from Urban Ugly

This is the shot I promised in my last post, taken from a little further up the creek.

Old ladies of the sea

Final Resting Place

Backing up a few paces and turning over my right shoulder from my previous posting, you see these graceful old ladies of the sea, tied up, abandoned and left to decay.

I guess their final act of service is to provide shelter and a home for all the denizens of the creek, and slowly giving up their nutrients and returning to mud. We like a nice bit of recycling :)


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Extreme contrast

This is one of the first I took in my Urban decay, lost spaces and industrial ugliness photo essay (taken mainly around the dock areas of Plymouth - "urban ugly" for short).

Pomphlett Creek

I'm not sure what it was that drove me to treat this with such high contrast. Perhaps it was the drama of the sky, perhaps the starkness of fine ladies against the muddy bottom of the creek.

In a future post you'll see what lies behind this shot — the gracefully decaying ladies who gave the best of themselves in service on the water.



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Boat in Totnes Mill Leat

These two shots are fresh out of the digital darkroom but I can't decide right now which one I should run with.

Portrait merits

With the portrait version, attention is sharply on the boat. The ladder is falling into shot, giving access from the ...well, we cant quite see from where, although a visual clue is there. The light catching the weeds on the right gives what I think is a nice touch of additional interest.

Landscape merits

Much more context appears in this version and there's the additional macro contrast between neatly tended potted plants and the sludge of the leat. The other thing I like about this is the cascade of "weeds" along the top right of the leat wall and the way the sunlight was catching them. There's some lovely tones there as a result.

Over to you...

So which one would you choose?

All comments / suggestions welcome

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