COMMENT THREAD for the January photo contest. Theme: STREET SCENES

[regnaD kciN]

Comment on the photos being submitted here.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. how broad is our definition here?

just curious

[Mira]

2. Broad and Main Streets USA ?I was kinda wondering the same thing.

[Juneboarder]

3. Hey BVAR...

I like the pic :hi:

[bvar22]

8. Thanks!

:hi:

[Mira]

4. The Lorraine Hotel.... I had thoughts of

being in Colorado - Cripple Creek, Victor - Art Deco, gold painted radiators
and loved it.
Then I thought I better google "Lorraine Hotel" before I step into missing something, and sure enough, I would have sounded like a fool.

I like the photo very much, bottom line, because it gives a wonderful feel for the US of "older" times.
I came here from Europe at age 20, and it gives me a bit of a different perspective
on what's old, etc.

The give-a-way to google it before just spouting off was that the cars were not from 1968,
and therefore the hotel had other history.
Beautiful light play, and shadows. And a great trigger for my own memories, and that terrible day in 1968 when we lost MLK Jr.

[Celebration]

5. now it is actually a museum

National Civil Rights Museum--They have kept the outside the same as much as they could. It looks like a motel, and most of the people around here call it a motel. I was glad to be able to get a shot like that without any reference to the museum showing up. There's actually an old bus from the 50s inside the museum. If you get on the bus, and sit down in the seats, a voice comes blasting out-- "Go to the back of the bus!" I wondered what to name the photo..........actually thought about "Has anybody here seen my old friend Martin?" Should I rename it?

[regnaD kciN]

6. I would...

Should I rename it?

The main problem, for me, is that it's always called the "Lorraine Motel" in news and historical coverage, so the "hotel" was a bit confusing. I like your alternate title.

[Celebration]

7. Thanks

I wasn't sure if everyone would get the reference or not. To everyone around here it is like the Texas Book Depository (people immediately recognize it). The sign said Hotel, so I went with that. Okay, I'll request a redo of the title.

[Blue_In_AK]

9. It's freaking COLD, and even the panhandlers are inside.

Damn. I did see a guy yesterday afternoon down on his knees in the ice and snow scooping up his Budweiser cans that had fallen out of the bottom of the case he was carrying, but, of course, I was in the middle lane and driving, so I couldn't snap him. That would have been the quintessential street scene for Anchorage this time of year fer sher.

[Tindalos]

23. That would have been an awesome photo.

The best shots are always the ones just missed.

[Ptah]

10. Does the photo have to be recent?

I have one from about a year ago.

:shrug:

[Mira]

11. I read someone say: I may have to go to the archives, because it's cold outside.

Nobody objected.
I went through mine and the photo I posted is 4 months old, maybe more.
I think it's a really good question, and I have not been around here long enough to know the ropes so I try to "pick them up".

I look forward to your photo.

[JeffR]

12. Mine dates back to September.

Taken at an Eid al-Fitr street festival, actually, though my subjects seemed to have no idea about appropriate dress and demeanor for the occasion.

Unless there's some sort of stipulation in the contest rules or something time-sensitive in the theme itself, archived shots are fine. Given the weather here recently, the odds of a new street scene involving anything other than stuck cars or crabby middle-aged guys like me wrenching our backs shoveling snow were pretty minimal.

[regnaD kciN]

26. It can be from whenever you want it to be...

I once entered a photo I took in 1976.

[JeffR]

13. My apologies, regnaD kciN

I realized my photo ever so slightly exceeds the file size limit. Thought I had it to under 200k but maybe some metadata pushed it over the line. I'm going to try and resize it now.

[Celebration]

14. Except for a few modern intrusions, like a car

Roman Holiday kind of reminds me of an Old Master's painting. Very interesting.

[comrade snarky]

15. Thanks!

It is a little Rembrantish in the way the light draws you in to the center. I hadn't noticed how much before you mentioned it though I was real happy with the way the light came out.

It had rained a little about an hour before so the streets still had some of that nice reflective quality.


on edit: Not that I would compare myself to Mr. van Rijn in any way! Did not intend it come out that was if it does.

[Blue_In_AK]

16. regnaD, I changed my entry.

I was too late to edit.

[tekisui]

17. one is the loneliest ...

Beautiful shot. I enjoy that silhouette.

[JeffR]

18. Cassandra!!

It just don't get more street than that! That's a damn cool photo.

[Cassandra]

19. Thanks!!!

One thing we've got lots of in NYC is streets.

BTW, those girls in your shot are so cute. I'd kill for those legs.

[JeffR]

20. True that.

Somehow it reminds me of Savannah, though.

[Cassandra]

21. There's someone walking around Savannah...

in hot pink sweats and a purple coat? With matching lipstick, even.

[JeffR]

22. Oh, hell. If there aren't 3 or 4 people in Savannah dudded out that way

tomorrow morning, then I don't know nuthin'. Which of course could be true.

[Mira]

24. Cassandra ! Other than being thrilled by the colors I worry about the precarious

perching of the fruit. Should they tumble down then the gloves on the ground are history :)
Great big apple shot!

[Cassandra]

25. There are usually a few oranges...

rolling around the sidewalk in front of Fairway. Once, when I was inside, an entire pyramid of apples collapsed onto the floor. You really have to watch your step around here.

[Mira]

27. What an array of wonderful pictures - but MsPIP - it's a great plus

to also provide a good laugh. You succeeded and I am chuckling
(in my 40 degrees in the South). I also love the startling red against the snow.

[Mz Pip]

30. Thanks!

I really stewed over what to enter. I went with the one that made me laugh, though digging out of that snowstorm didn't seem so amusing at the time. I doubt we'll see that much snow in CA all this winter, much less in one day.

[Celebration]

28. To Juneboarder re: resizing

The easiest way to do it is use the Photobucket option to resize your photo when you upload it. You could upload the picture again, and this time, on the right, choose the option for the fifteen inch screen (800 by 600). I pm'ed you also.

[tekisui]

29. WannaJump!

I think I am in that picture of yours. :hi:

[Robb]

31. I hereby declare Tindalos the winner on this one

:wow:

[Mira]

33. She's got it in her back pocket ! And Robb: I very much like your photo.

Title, intrigue and all.

[Tindalos]

35. I wouldn't bet on it

but thank you.

I asked his permission btw. When I admired his dog, he lit up like a ray of sunshine. It was beautiful. That picture was too "posey" though, so I went with this one.


Your picture has me curious. I keep trying to peer through everyone's legs to see what they are looking at. Very mysterious.

[TahitiNut]

36. I would.

I'm a huge dog lover ... and that photo just grabs me .... BIG TIME. It's not only a technically excellent photo, it's timed and composed so well I can't find even the smallest fault.

[tekisui]

32. Robb....

I like that one. It reminds me of Robert Frank's work. Cool shot.

[Robb]

34. Thanks!

Big compliment. It's part of my "take pictures in another direction from the action" plan, which from time to time I remember to do. :)