Nice shot!

Thank you!

well seen like the mood here

Glad I've been able to share the mood... thanks!

Superb capture my friend. God bless.

Thanks much, my friend!

better to take it inside... impressive b/w, love the puristic style in this

Thank you for your thoughtful comment!

Fantastic capture !

Thanks much indeed!

Superb b/w !!!!

Many thanks!

belle photo!!

Thank you!

great photo

Thank you!

Great story here.... Are those insecure boxes on the left for mail?

Thank you.... exactly, they're normally packed with ads and other unwanted things these days.

Wow cool shot !

Thank you! Glad you like it

An image of urban isolation.

It really is, Andrea! Thanks for looking in, my friend!

Excellent shot, but it looks a bit sinister :)

Right, Helle! The bike may get alive anytime... thank you!

Like the old films!!

and I liked them better, much better... thank you!

You have such an eye for composition and the division of space. First I see a bike, then its surroundings with all the wonderful details. Pipe railing, mailboxes, chipped paint, dark and light. Then I imagine how it feels to be there. Is it dry? Damp? Cold? Too darned hot? Stuffy? THEN my artist's brain starts looking for the reasons it's so good. That's when the division of space starts to come out. The "bones" of this picture are so good. Masterful work!

Tara, you certainly know quite well that making images is mostly a subconscious process, and it's always great to learn how they are perceived by another pair of eyes. Thank you for your detailed feedback and kind words.

A life not in luxury but I'm sure that person is in great condition riding that bike. Nice capture. Aloha

The house is waiting for the funds to be repaired. ...Thank you very much, my friend!

You have the vision and ability to bring the ordinary and mundane to life, by just simply framing it - the way it is perceived by you ... and that is a gift ! fine POV and in B&W it's perfect, Springtime greetings from OZ and take care, Nikolay BB

Brit, we all perceive this world differently, no matter how leveled they want to make us in school. Thank you for your feedback and enjoy your OZ spring in full.

Wonderful composition and feeling in this shot; your eye is so good!

Thank you very much, Denise!

A wonderful capture, dear Nikolay. Very moody indeed. Hugs for all day. Di. xx

Many thanks for your kind feedback, Di! Have a great day/

This reminds me of harder times when life wasn't so easy. Beautifully captured!

Like you (above), I also get a world from tara's comments. Tara and I have had many discussions about you, as I've said before. And they always sound as if we'd seen your work for the first time. We just marvel at how you make the world seem fresh right from the first glance, and you never let up from that newness. This is a common-enough scene, but you've infused it with powerful energy through your pov, your lighting, your intensifications (sharpening or bringing out the decayed details, etc), through your chiaroscuro, etc. It doesn't matter how you got there: As you said in your comment to tara, it's subconscious, you do it by 'feel'. But you get there. Your angle makes us plunge into the scene, we're tilted over as if to be "spilled" into the scene. And your 'center' here is that heavily lit railing, a beacon. And the heavily lit bicycle. The rest recedes into deep darkness except to come forward in bits and pieces. You probably know that "chiaroscuro" originally meant "clear--obscure," which is really different than "light--dark". Clarity is different from light, and obscure is deeper than dark. I think you do dialogues with both, because your images so often are crystal clear (like crystal, they shine); and yet you explore obscurity and mystery. Mystery above all. This stairwell is loaded with mystery, even the electrical plates on the left---what i assume are doors to electrical switches---have mystery, because the plates are skewed, they are hard to read, and something's 'back' there, behind them...Because all that decay is visible, as is often the case in a number of your shots, you've made its life palpable---so the darkness veils a huge amount of life behind it. And all this is inside a scene as common as the sky. That's part of why your images make the common so new and mysterious. Well, I don't want to talk this to death, but this is a typical Nikolay black and white, and it's marvelous. (Oh---and you called it "tenant," which means that the bike can be the tenant, but also that the bike intimates someone far beyond the scene...more mystery.)

This makes me feel all nostalgic and mushy and warm inside: I miss mailboxes like that, crammed full of junk mail in a language that doesn't look anything like English. The mood in this is amazing. On the surface it's bleak and stark, but such "stark and bleak" places are usually far from that: they're just well used and a little bit worn down around the edges (and full of finger-prints, and mysterious pudding stains that are evidence of children somewhere.) I'm also struck by how tight and concise this photo is, and yet it's got so much space. It's a stairwell with a bike, and yet it's far more roomy than that, and there are so many places to wander. Now, I'm interested in the stories on the other side of that door, or the stories that are ground into the tires of that bike! This is really brilliant.