nice urban art :)

Nice color tone and a very nice frame. I like the gray around the edges. The word Public, like in public television or public radio, really makes me feel like this... :) A bit sorry to say that but what can you do.

I quite like 1x1, then I do love medium format stuff....

The photo looks quite fake almost as if this was pure digital art and it obviosly could be acheived! I find this quite interesting given the amount of times people play down the images which you obviously manipulate.

Anyway... I like it , the splash of white and red (red looking quite like blood), works rather well with the aged/rugged 'ness of the poster thing ;)

Pubic Meeting, surely Johan? ;-)

It's interesting this Dave as - if you were going to jump on that particular bandwagon...erm...which obviously I am for a minute ;-) - it's rather 'un-you'. I think it's the fairly flat contrast that does it, feels a bit more like one of John's shots. Hang on...is that going to cause an argument given you've said it's your least favourite? Maybe I should shut up now ;-)

looks a bit unnatural. I'm interested in seeing the others.

by the way, the link to john's photoblog is broken (maybe intentionally? ;-)

i like the red in this - adds a bit of much needed contrast and intrigue (ie, blood?)

Oh and can I just say that I actually like the flat contrast as I think it works for this one :-)

I really like this one, I'm into textures though ;) The smaller bits of faded writing really help make this for me for some reason.
Is that a hint of difference clouds to the bottom right?

JD has a good point. Almost looks like it was done entirely in photoshop; perhaps it's because of the lack of dimension. Great texture.

hee

Great framing of the pubic thing. Well done.

Moe: thanks, I've fixed the link.

muffins: nope, no 'difference clouds', this is how the surfact looked.

I have a bit of an off topic question.
Do few comments mean that the picture is a bad one? Believe me, I’m the one who has the fewest comments on the internet, I’m blaming it on bad marketing ;-), but the question remains. Is the nature of the internet: If you like it, you comment, if you don’t like it you go on to the next page/blog/whatever. Do you think that a bad or boring picture just gets fewer comments than the good once?

Sure hope no one gets offended. :)

Johan: I think the number of comments an entry gets depends on two things: the extent to which it provokes a fairly immediate and gratifying response, and the extent to which such a response can be verbalised. Bad images satisfy neither criteria, while good images can satisfy both, but may not; e.g. very good images (that may be very complex, or not immediately comprehensibe) may not receive a lot of comments either.

As an example, I think this image is a good as the one I'm going to put up later today, but I bet that the next one receives more comments because it has a more immediate visual impact.

Of course, all these discussions depend on how you define 'good', and that's a massively subjective topic.

So yes, generally, bad and/or boring images will receive less comments, but there's more to it than that, at least in my opinion.

the 14 comments were built up on your fame, not this c**p(it doesn't even look like a photo to me), imagine this photo appears on someone else's blog. really miss your landscape and portrait shots. stop wasting your time in front of your mac, and go out shoot some really pictures

It's different and well spotted to grab the shot but you have done better and more amazing shots in my opinion...
Technically its brilliant as usual but the content just doesn't grab me as much as some of your other entrys..
But hell I am sure tomorrows (todays) will blow the pants off me :)

Interesting shot Dave... You never miss a shot!

But yesterday you didn't answer me:

Dave, can you advice me a site where i can create my own photoblog?

Thank you...

scaccomatto: you could try Pixelpost, it's relatively straightforward to set up.

dissapointed fan: with all due respect, I wouldn't have posted this if I thought it was crap as I have two other shots I could have put up instead. That you don't like it is fine, that you don't think it looks like a photograph is fine, and that you can't find a way to engage with it is fine ... but I put it up because, a) I think it's worth posting, and b) I like it.

Eh eh eh...Nice shot man!

nice shot mate :)

I like it, here's why...It's very eerie, it reminds me of post-Cherobyl images. It has an air of "something bad happened here" about it, from the general state of the poster but especially from the red in the middle. I would like to see it in en even darker, "Silent Hill-esque" style too.

Paul: finally, someone gets it :-) That's exactly the feel I was after: some sort of sense of a post-apocalyptic reality.

Woohoo I'm glad I was first for once! I have been sat here looking at it for a few minutes now and I think the final thought I have is of the film Terminator 2, especially the scene where Sarah Connor is dreaming about what might happen in a nuclear holocaust and she see's the swingpark (and kids) destroyed. Nice.

i really like the texture on this shot. nice catch :)

Nice.

For all the apocalyptic parallels there's still a human touch. The accidentaly-on-purpose erasure of the "I" by some adolescent mind to match the rest of the decay reminds me of the defacing of bus notices I used to see. "Fleas_ _in_ Your _Ear"