The only think I don’t like about this shot is that I didn’t take it.
Thanks Ken 👋
Great picture captured
Thanks. This was an enjoyable one to shoot. 👋
You are really having fun! The car’s motion, the intense lemon yellow of the sign, the leaden grays, the classic perspective – there are so many things going for this photo. (Not least that it breaks out of any comfort zone you might have, though I don’t really think you have one).
Lemon yellow– what a great way to describe it. I must say comfort zones are not for me; never really have been. I recall Susan Sontag noting how photography seems to be in a unique position in this respect.
Some photographers are locked in stylistically throughout their careers and Ansel Adams would be an excellent example. Others were unconcerned with the appearance of inconsistency. Steichen’s pictorialism bore no resemblance to his later Hollywood portraits, and you would never guess it was the same photographer.
In the digital era, we’d be at a disadvantage to impose limits on ourselves. There’s a healthy eclecticism out there right now, and lots of new tools. You see a great deal of imaginative work among online photographers, and I think the platform lends itself to the freedom from comfort zones that Sontag saw as unique to the medium.
As you know, my background is in fine arts and the same discussion has gone on there, in depth. I remember hearing about artists who felt they had to evolve to a degree but not too much, in order to keep showing and selling – that’s way back when I was in school in the 70s.
I like your “big tent” acceptance of healthy eclecticism and the plethora of new tools. What’s online is so dizzying in terms of quantity that it can be difficult to see what’s there sometimes but it’s a good thing, especially in the way the medium is democratized across geography and demography.
I like what you said about it being democratized across geography and demography. It’s also gratifying to know our efforts can be uplifting without requiring payment for the experience
JOHN TODARO 
My kind of photography.
Thank you!
The only think I don’t like about this shot is that I didn’t take it.
Thanks Ken 👋
Great picture captured
Thanks. This was an enjoyable one to shoot. 👋
You are really having fun! The car’s motion, the intense lemon yellow of the sign, the leaden grays, the classic perspective – there are so many things going for this photo. (Not least that it breaks out of any comfort zone you might have, though I don’t really think you have one).
Lemon yellow– what a great way to describe it. I must say comfort zones are not for me; never really have been. I recall Susan Sontag noting how photography seems to be in a unique position in this respect.
Some photographers are locked in stylistically throughout their careers and Ansel Adams would be an excellent example. Others were unconcerned with the appearance of inconsistency. Steichen’s pictorialism bore no resemblance to his later Hollywood portraits, and you would never guess it was the same photographer.
In the digital era, we’d be at a disadvantage to impose limits on ourselves. There’s a healthy eclecticism out there right now, and lots of new tools. You see a great deal of imaginative work among online photographers, and I think the platform lends itself to the freedom from comfort zones that Sontag saw as unique to the medium.
As you know, my background is in fine arts and the same discussion has gone on there, in depth. I remember hearing about artists who felt they had to evolve to a degree but not too much, in order to keep showing and selling – that’s way back when I was in school in the 70s.
I like your “big tent” acceptance of healthy eclecticism and the plethora of new tools. What’s online is so dizzying in terms of quantity that it can be difficult to see what’s there sometimes but it’s a good thing, especially in the way the medium is democratized across geography and demography.
I like what you said about it being democratized across geography and demography. It’s also gratifying to know our efforts can be uplifting without requiring payment for the experience
Yes!