Padlock #24 by goodoleboy
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Captured 12/28/13, early morning, somewhere around the neighborhood.
ZOOM worthy.
It's the first time I ever encountered a device of this genre just lying on the ground. I didn't bother to check but it still looks usable.
Ta-ta.
Comments (9)
durleybeachbum
He casts an impressive shadow.
Cyve
Great shot !
magnus073
Great work on another nice capture, Harry. Looks a lot like the lock on my garage.
claude19
excellent game of lighting and shadow ! wonderful work !
jocko500
cool looking
angora
wonderful!! looks usable indeed. did not happen to find a fence somewhere? ;-)
MrsRatbag
What a find, but I wouldn't use it unless the key is there too, otherwise it becomes a permanent lock! Great shadow work here, Harry, and an excellent capture.
tennesseecowgirl
Cool shot, love your shadow photos
anahata.c
I'm skipping around again, as usual, trying to get to your variety. This is minimalism at its best, but it's also very complex. Even the ground is complicated---can't tell if it's a sidewalk, street, parking lot, trodden path---the details could be any of those, a kind of generic dry pathway. And it has (yes!) that trademark early morning light. I swear we don't get that light here---it just looks very southwest to me. You capture its mix of bleached with deep ambers and golds, and it's so appealing and mysterious. And I haven't said anything about the lock: I like that it's opened, and it's got a layer of cobwebs and some shimmering dust and rust on it. Just enough to tell us it's been around. And it casts that lonnnnng shadow. You really capture long morning shadows---I don't know how long they last at that hour, but while they're there, you sure as heck get them. This is as much about the thick shadow as it is about the lock; and they all sit in a little 'desert'. That's what a number of your sidewalk 'portraits' feel like: A portrait in the desert, because you get the tone and feel of the desert, even in a small patch of sidewalk. (The desert is very rich in hues, contours, light, shadow, etc: It's hardly the monolith that people think it is, at first glance: That's what you capture in these many early morning object and shadow shots.) With so many cliched L.A. shots around---like the cliches of Manhattan skylines (or Chicago skylines, to which I've unfortunately contributed), you present something elemental about L.A., and very mysterious; and you do it as much via closeups of forgotten objects as you do by your majestic sunrises, long streets or mansions. (And btw, this is a prime example of what one misses if they DON'T zoom: The detail is too delicious to not see simply because one doesn't want to hit a mere 'button'...)