Sunday, September 06, 2009

Abandoned

Naugatuck, Connecticut


Torrington, Connecticut

5 comments:

Don and Sher said...

It is amazing the things you see along the road and then I always wonder, the story of how they got there.

Markus Spring said...

The arrangement of the subjects in #1 is wonderful.

Carl Weese said...

Don and Sher, I guess the stories remain secret, so we can only make a picture.

Markus, I don't think the subjects were arranged by anyone. I certainly can't claim to have done anything other than find a particular position for the camera that seemed the most interesting way to look at these found objects.

Markus Spring said...

Carl, of course I didn't assume that you moved the position of the things. Can't a found composition also be an arrangement? At least in german that french loan word 'arrangement' does not necessarily imply activity on the viewer's side, it can also mean an accidental order that was found.

Here, as in many other cases, hazard, maybe wind blow has arranged the things. The art of the photographer is to pick the correct point of view. So this in the end would be arrangement again, arrangement in the viewfinder. And this arrangement you have done here very well.

Carl Weese said...

Markus, I didn't think you meant I'd moved the stuff around. Whenever I run into something like this I always question whether it is a genuinely random, accidental circumstance or something intentionally arranged and left behind for an effect or message. In this case I think it was random accident.