Coffee Lines
Another shot taken while testing the Olympus XA2 – this crop is a nice complement to yesterday’s post. Below is the uncropped image.
Photo taken in Fernwood at the Parsonage Cafe, purveyors of great coffee and food.
If you want to seem more of my shots from the XA2 then click on this link.
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Olympus XA2, f3.5/35mm lens, Fuji Superia X-Tra 400 film, scanned with Epson V700
burnt embers 
Lines, patterns, shadows – and an edible graininess. Lovely.
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Thanks Mike. I do like the grain of film, it feels right in a photograph.
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It’s two for the price of one. The first is geometric – and I love geometry. The second is more ‘human’, and it contains the thread of a story. Both are good in my opinion, Ehpem
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Thanks for pulling this apart a bit Andy. I am in a geometric mood these days hence the crop. But geometry without people or something living is a bit of a thin gruel after a while. Brought home to me this weekend while editing hundreds of photos from the wedding of two good friends. All about life and joy and humanness – the geometry pales in comparison.
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So, I was going to post a comment about how I liked the cropped version better, and how the bike wheels were a little too much. Then I thought it might be the SPOKES that were too much. So I looked back at the shots. And that’s when I noticed how there are a variety of curves (the circles, of course, but the springs under the bike seat, the decorative part of the wrought-iron bars, the bike’s brake cables, the curves on the handles of that other bike, even the circles on the poster in the window). And, then the first photo – as much as I liked it at first – seemed a little too harsh – although I do like it that you included just a hint of the curve that’s on the top of the trash bin.
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That first photo is a bit stark. It suppose it might work better in colour in a way that the uncropped version does not want to. There are a lot of curves in the rest of the photo that are not immediately obvious – dominated by the wheels.
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Once I started looking for curves, I was surprised at how many I found. It was like a treasure hunt!
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Weii that is a good thing!
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I can’t pick a favorite today. Both are winners. Normally I would pick the top image but the circles (wheels) on the bike are a very interesting contrast.
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Hi Ken – thanks! I am in the same quandry. I prepared the post with just the crop but found myself going back to the circles which inspired the photo in the first place. So I put it in too.
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