Grid Blocks
I was rummaging in my archives where I found this shot. It is part of a series that I ran more than a year ago, including Urban Dune and Moon Tank.
I am not sure why I left this one sitting last year, because now I quite like it. Especially that little triangle of red – it is not something I added, nor do I know what it is, but it adds more than it should for its size.
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Canon EOS 5Dii, Canon 50mm/f1.4 lens, ISO100, f-6.3, 1/250th
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burnt embers 
Wonderful graphic quality to this.
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Thank you Lisa. I think “graphic” pretty much sums up the photo – not much more to it than that. But simple is often good.
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This has a nice feel to it – glad you found it during your archive-rummage. That happens to me often – I will see an old picture that I didn’t really like to much when I shot it, and see all sorts of possibilities in it. There’s lots of reasons – our skills with Lightroom or Photoshop are getting better, so things that weren’t usable become salvageable, our moods change, our tastes changes. But, whatever, the reason, that’s why I almost never delete any photographs. (Coincidentally, that’s also why I need approximately, well, ALL the terabytes there are to store my files.)
Oh, and on the crummy monitor on my work computer, it took me a minute to find the red triangle…
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Hi Melinda. I am not sure I want any justifications for needing additional tb of storage space. It easily gets out of hand. But it is nice to find something that obviously I ‘saw’ when I took the picture, and to rediscover there is actually something to see.
I kind of worry about all the views with crummy monitors (I have similar at work too), especially on many laptops – how does one produce images that really work well in that setting? Should one care? Kind of like music heard through inadequate speakers. In any case, I am glad you found the red triangle. I don’t think I saw it when I first looked at the image, and sure didn’t notice it when shooting.
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I looked at other shots from this series and that red dot is either a red flag or traffic cone that are next to some of the “bins” that hold aggregate – I think they must indicate where to go for/from the latest barge load.
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I like this, too. It’s funny how we can look at an image for the past and find a new meaning in it. Perhaps seeing it again after a long absence allows us to see it with a freshness that we were lacking. This one has a very nice pattern to it.
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Thanks Ken. I expect that seeing it fresh was partly a result of looking at your recent grid pictures, the double exposures. I faintly recall that when I first looked at this I wished for more focus on the blocks and less on the wire. Now it is fine; in fact, I took some of the focus out of the background.
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