Now I know I like your early color as well as your B&W! Wonderful POV, atmosphere and lighting! The stark white florescent light and the reflection of the red on the wall and window are perfect and give it a slightly seedy air. Very nice!

Excellent shot! This is one place I think I'd stay away from! Possibility of losing more than just my money in a place like this is just too much for my blood!

Scatto molto interessante per colore e atmosfera ma un po' inquietatante !Sembra la scena di un vecchio film ! Interesting shot in color and atmosphere but a little 'inquietatante! It looks like the scene of an old movie!

Mega seedy indeed! I love the sign....

Oh i love this superb capture !!!

wonderful!!!

Great stuff!

This looks like a good place not to go alone lol. great shot

EXCELLENT!!!

Well .. I will be brief on expressing my happiness with this continued journey through your archives; no need to get all blubbery on ya'. ;-) My first reaction was very emotional upon opening. Not sadness .. not nostalgia .. but a sensation tugging my attention backwards to remember something that has been missed in our constant rush onward into the new millennium. I would not have that same reaction, of this I am certain, were there a person leaning an arm on the ledge and talking to someone through the window. That would have made a fine documentive period image. This is not that .. not exactly. This is a portrait of a place; a place that wanted to be noticed .. yearned to be remembered .. for its own sake. We think we, photographers, "make" our photographs, but this is not always true. Study the works of Minor White and read his impressions on photography. Sometimes a place or the spirit of a moment chooses us as a vehicle of expression. In my estimation, that is what occurred here. In a previous post you wrote of your early days, "I wandered the streets like a homeless man with a camera." When I read that, in my thoughts I added, " ... waiting for an invitation to portray a moment." Your early photography is an impressive and valuable resource, Mark. I think that part of my emotional response when I first look at your archival works is an authentic happiness at seeing you bring these images into the digital era to share with others. I was watching a fine documentary some weeks back on Woodstock. Throughout the film they would display a series of black and white images of the performers and the attendants which I had never seen before and which were absolutely stunning. At one point they explained that these images were taken by a high school student who was covering the event for his school paper. It was hard to believe that these photos, the best taken at Woodstock and in some cases the best I have seen of certain performers on stage, were created by a kid without any formal training or field experience. I would frame several of those images for my wall; they were beyond wonderful. Here's the pinch .. after returning home from Woodstock, this kid made some prints for himself and showed them to friends but he never brought them out for exhibition, publication or sale. In the words of his friend, for the photographer died several years ago, "This is the first time these photographs are being shown since they were taken forty years ago." That broke my heart .. truly. Conversely, I am deeply elated to be here witnessing the premiere of your early photographs. For, as I have written a while back, you are an artist, Mark, you always have been. At the top I said I would be brief .. and here we are at the end of perhaps the longest comment in Renderosity history. Well, that's your fault not mine. ;-) Terry

wonderful capture warm hugs, Linda

fantastic seedy shot ! I love playing pool :)