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Park Bank
Posted by grant (kansas city, United States) on 28 August 2008 in Business & Industry and Portfolio.
Parkville, Missouri
Holga
Tmax 100
dj.tigersprout from San Bruno, CA, United States
love the stark contrasts here between light and dark! simple, understated, marvelous!
28 Aug 2008 5:57am
@dj.tigersprout: thanks dj!
@Stovepipe: thanks sp
Observing from West Cheshire, United Kingdom
I like the static silent atmosphere, and how the main window is flanked either side by windows of the same office. The details in the shadow areas is very good.
28 Aug 2008 9:52am
@Observing: thanks - it's that sharp holga lens :)
daina from United States
It looks almost unreal it is so "condensed" as if were a distillation of so many store fronts such as this. The stark simplicity is marvelous.
28 Aug 2008 12:45pm
@daina: thanks very much daina
ordinaryimages from Kentucky Bluegrass, United States
park bank was the predecessor of drive-up bank. best...jerry
28 Aug 2008 1:59pm
@ordinaryimages: i'm groaning - that's a joke my granddad might have told!
Mindy from United States
agree with the above. is it just me, or does this look more like a restaurant than a bank?
28 Aug 2008 8:24pm
@Mindy: it certainly doesn't have the stately seriousness banks often have. if it were a restaurant, it'd be out of business though - deadly quiet.
Matt Sutton from Sydney, Australia
lovely image. I am drawn into the bank. great strength here in tonal range. "what a shady bank" ;-p
28 Aug 2008 10:39pm
@Matt Sutton: thanks matt. this must be my image for bad jokes! (see jerry's comment).
GJC from Kyoto, Japan
Wonderful shadows! And beautiful rhythmic shapes and patterns repeated all over the composition.
29 Aug 2008 3:26am
@Howard F.: the beauty of a plastic lens :)
yiannis krikis from thessaloniki, Greece
excellent framing and lighting - I like the absence of people
30 Aug 2008 7:31am
@yiannis krikis: thanks yiannis
Lucca from Cologne, Germany
I love the hard light here and the double meaning of Park Bank (in German Bank means bank as well as bench). This photo could have been taken in the 60th.
30 Aug 2008 9:37am
@Lucca: thanks for the information!
