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Caddy Shack
Posted by grant (kansas city, United States) on 28 November 2008 in Cityscape & Urban and Portfolio.
Kansas City, Missouri
Rolleiflex
Tmax 100
lisa v from Gawler, Australia
Gee you'd think they could make it a little more appealing.
28 Nov 2008 5:11am
sherri from Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
I really like all the power lines in this capture. I'm guessing this place still does business. Never been able to figure out who they think they're fooling when they build one of those awning type things to make the place look bigger:-)
28 Nov 2008 6:36am
@sherri: it's never open when i'm around, but i think it's still in business. i'm more puzzled by the name. i can't image there's a golf couse within ten miles of this place...
Reiner from Brensbach, Germany
The play of light and shadow is as always wonderful. The building looks somehow abandoned, because there are no passers-by and no cars. Nevertheless I like this chilly atmosphere. Wonderful captured.
28 Nov 2008 9:27am
RHYS from United Kingdom
another gem. do you ever have to wait long for people to pass? or do you shoot early morning / late evening when there's less folk about?
28 Nov 2008 10:48am
@RHYS: thanks rhys. i almost never have to wait. i mostly shoot on saturday afternoons and sundays. most of the places i go are practically abandoned at these times.
cat from Tel Aviv, Israel
Do people go to this place for a night out? It could be the most happening place on Earth, but it looks ghostly in your photograph.
28 Nov 2008 11:17am
@cat: cat, i wish i could tell you. i've never been inside, and don't know of anyone who has!
don from United States
I think it's interesting how the cornice (overhang) looks added after the fact. They must be mostly concerned with how the place looks on the inside. It is strangely stark and unappealing except for the golf appeal. Nice shot.
28 Nov 2008 4:07pm
Bill from Belton, United States
I suspect that the only golf involved here may be a passing reference as to the particular lie on 17 in regard to some long past round. Followed by ordering another round. Great shot Grant! You continue to keep the mystery alive each day!
28 Nov 2008 8:39pm
@Bill: i'm thinking you're exactly right.
paolo from Italy
i also think that awning looks very baroque, or maybe it was meant for hiding an old kind of roof .
I like your shadows here Grant!
28 Nov 2008 8:54pm
bluechameleon from Vancouver, Canada
I love the sign :)
Again, you are so strong with the lines in your shots, this one is no exception.
28 Nov 2008 9:19pm
JJ from Jersey City, United States
I cannot help but think of the movie caddyshack which I still find so amusing, and this bar would have fit into the movie well, another cool capture, lovely light and shadows again
28 Nov 2008 9:45pm
Alphons from Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands
Wonderful "as-it-is" shot. Fine composition and especially structure. Well done. bye.
28 Nov 2008 11:07pm
@Alphons: thanks alphons
Observing from West Cheshire, United Kingdom
Pub & Deli.... I imagine it to be a bit dark inside. Cool shot though Grant, excellent light as usual.
29 Nov 2008 1:37am
@Observing: thanks mike. i bet you're right about the inside of this place.
Stephen Phillips from San Francisco, United States
Where's Chevy Chase? Great image, Grant. I'm looking at the comments and scratching my head as well. Looks as though someone seriously overshot the nineteenth hole!
29 Nov 2008 2:33am
@Stephen Phillips: exactly!
daina from New York, United States
Wonderful glare of light on the building and love the foreground shadow and as usual the emptiness...
30 Nov 2008 2:22am
Twelvebit from Victoria, United States
I'm looking at this and thinking it looks like the kind of place Dirty Mary and Crazy Lady hid out in from the cops, but that may just be because I was watching Death Proof over the weekend.
1 Dec 2008 3:50pm
@Twelvebit: i haven't seen it. i have a feeling the cops might know to check in this sort of place regularly though :)
Twelvebit from Victoria, United States
That should have been Dirty Mary and Crazy LARRY by the way --not Lady.
2 Dec 2008 2:35pm
@Twelvebit: i liked it better the first way
