Birgit Langmann
January 2025 - Private Property
About the Image(s)
Canon EOS R10, ISO 100, 1/332, f9.0, 24 mm lens, -0.67 metering, polarizer, handheld.
On my bike travels through the Red Desert of Wyoming, I came across this abandoned property. While I can guess what it was, housing for ranch hands, it was littered with bottles of booze, some half full others empty. Could be other liquids in the bottles but was not about to open and take a whiff. I didn't stop for long since it's on a very lonely and deserted stretch of road.
As far as the -0.67 metering, I often accidentally mess with the metering (design flaw of my camera since it's next to the shutter button) and I don't usually notice until I get home.
3 comments posted
I think the image meets the PJ definition (informative and reflects human presence in the world - not necessary to have a person), is not staged, and meets the reality based editing guidelines. The image documents property abandoned.
The image is well composed with the blue can balancing the blue sky, and an S curve leading the viewer's attention through the image.
Some of the highlights/whites lack detail. You might consider moving the highlight slider to the left to bring back the detail.
Posted: 01/10/2025 14:26:28
The image is well composed with the blue can balancing the blue sky, and an S curve leading the viewer's attention through the image.
Some of the highlights/whites lack detail. You might consider moving the highlight slider to the left to bring back the detail.
Posted: 01/10/2025 14:26:28
Karl Leck
Hi Birgit, I think the exposure is good with adequate detail on my calibrated monitor. Taking my time to study the image brought out the snaky S-curves beginning with the bottles on the ground to the blue can, the white tape and road leading to the seedy trailers. It's a real migrant labor camp. While it might be nice to have a couple of characters in the scene, there is a story based on their refuse. It's like an archaeologist digging up an 18th century latrine in Philadelphia during a gentrification project. So much stuff! I've been in camps like this and can say the conditions indoors can also make interesting images. Overall, I love the composition and feeling of the scene as captured. Karl Posted: 01/11/2025 10:44:33
Laurie Bergner
Hi Birgit - what an interesting picture. It certainly brings out the desolate and abandoned sense of the place. I love all those bottles on the ground. And the curve of the road. I also like the close-up of the private sign with the rest in the background. I wish the foreground was just a little closer to the buildings so that they were able to be bigger for the viewer, but we take what we get and there's not much you could've done about that. Posted: 01/11/2025 11:28:17