Between the two last photos photos, yesterday's is more appealing visually. I know this is the kind of shot that don't origin lots of comments, but it has it's own creative side. Don't worry about resuming your previous style. This one works also. :-)

I do hope you are not going to start worrying about the opinions of us weirdos on the internets. I come to Chromasia to learn, and I won't learn nearly as much if you start reacting to the peanut gallery instead of your own ideas and impulses.

(Though fwiw, I rather like the "found objects" stuff.)

I happen to like this one very much. Very urban with great texture and coloring.

The "focus" made me look at the exif info and I'm wondering for such a flat setup, (not that much depth required to be in focus) why f/8 ? I think f/4 could've gotten everything in focus as well :) .. Also.. higher ISOs for example ISO 800 is still very much acceptable on a 20D (see: http://www.camerahobby.com/Digital_High_ISO.htm).. You should experiment with higher ISOs a bit more, unless you made a religious pact to stick with Av mode and ISO 100 forever.. In which case I withdraw my statements.

It shocked me when I noticed the date on the flyer.....Jan 2006. I always think of the 'decayed past' as no more recent than the 70s / 80s (my youth) and expected (rather irrationally given its fairly intact state) for the document to be from that era......which implies something about our concept of the passage of time and what constitutes, to us, as crumbling 'historical' , I suppose. Jan 2006....how quickly the vivid and salient present becomes the vague, discarded past, eh? For me, tokens such as this resonate with pathos.

(I like yesterday's shot more though...the palette seemed to make the object glow as if in an attempt to maitain its dwindling vitality and relevance)

I was just wondering, do you know anything more about these flyer's? I noticed they said Belfast on them. I really like these two shots, they may not be beautiful or visually appealing, but they tell a story.

Federation Blackpool is scheduled for 11/25/06...so says the website, interesting. I agree with Deb I see history as 70s / 80s, also my youth. Since times change so fast a year now could be considered historical.

Char and Deb ... if you want to be really accurate everything that is 'a second old' is history but that's being pedantic....
I take your point though .... just remember ...this email is history ... well just. and actually recent history is just as relevant as ....er shall we say Ancient Greek history... its just that the comparisons and differences are far more obvious.

Thanks all.

As for history: normally, I would really think of January of this year as being part of history. Literally, of course it is, but it's not all that far away from where we are now. In the context of this building though a lot has changed in that time: water has destroyed some of the soft furnishings, carpets and floors; various uninvited guests have smashed windows and mirrors ... and so on. In other words, despite its relatively recent demise it certainly feels as though it was abandoned quite some time ago.

And I agree, this one wasn't as appealing as yesterday's, but I wanted to put both up.

I think this is a great shot! The color is very unique, from the shade of the label to the blueish specks around it. And, I was also struck by the date on the label, which I was sure should have read 1996 instead of 2006. Finally, I really liked the way you framed this with the main label square to the crop of the picture. something I would not have thought of doing, but makes the picture very visually attractive.

I like the colours.