Ervay Street

[Rick Waldroup]

Ervay Street - Dallas, Texas

[Gary]

I'm am smiling Rck. I love the high contrast and your blacks.

[Rick Waldroup]

Thanks for the comments, Gary.

[Frank Fremerey]

the light structures the space pictured in a pleasent and evocative way

[Gary]

the light structures the space pictured in a pleasent and evocative way

Yes, the filtered lighting, especially on the sidewalk is very nice.

[elsa hoffmann]

Rick - you cropped quite tight on the left side - makes me wonder what was there?

[Rick Waldroup]

Thanks to everyone for their comments.

Elsa, on the left was a street with parked cars.  I wanted to avoid them as much as possible, thus I framed the photo this way when I shot it and then cropped it just a tiny bit more when I processed it.

[smusesuse]

I'm not always a fan of b/w, but this is really cool. I really love the shadows. I would hang this on my wall.

[elsa hoffmann]

how about a portrait crop? Look, its my opinion only that I am not fond of the composition here - and obviously its your show - so you do it as you see it - its just my opinion 

[Rick Waldroup]

how about a portrait crop? Look, its my opinion only that I am not fond of the composition here - and obviously its your show - so you do it as you see it - its just my opinion 

You know what is weird?  For some reason, and I am not sure why, but a lot of my stuff I tend to crop into an almost square format.  I shot medium format 6x6 cameras for a few years, but I don't think that is the reason I crop the way I do.  It just appeals to my eye, I suppose.  But then again, it never hurts to try new things....

[Rick Waldroup]

I'm not always a fan of b/w, but this is really cool. I really love the shadows. I would hang this on my wall.

Thanks for the comments.  Black and white is all I shoot.

[armando_m]

One person is coming the other one is going ?

Great perspective and light

[Akira]

The nearly shadowed trunks, IR-image-like leaves and two walking figures makes this image special to me.  I would have liked the figure on the left was clearly separated from the trunk, but that would just be an ingorable nitpick...

[Ron Scubadiver]

I like it It's pretty hard to get dappled lighting to work well, but it does here.  On the left I imagine is a city street.  Actually, a lot is left to the imagination like who the two women are...

[elsa hoffmann]

It just appeals to my eye, I suppose. 

Rick - and that is all that is important
Sometimes its more important to please ourselves than please others