New York mess three
Here we are gradually coming back to color. There are very few touches of color on this mainly grayish street situation. And once again, it looks flat. No depth, destroyed perpective, confusing scene. Worse of all, although it has nothing religious, it seems to be composed like a cross with this steel vertical pole right in the middle and the complex truck crossing the street. I wonder what pushed me to take this picture. I must have been in my "flat" mood. But I was fascinated by the intense life going on in this busy city. Maybe it is the lens I was using that makes this all seem on the same level. I must have been looking for this effect since there are several pictures giving me the same impression. Although there is a foreground formed by the red cone and the flag, and a background with a faraway building and even a tiny bit of sky, it appears compressed. And no, I wasn't using a telephoto lens. It is more likely the density of the life happening at this moment that seem to compress more the time than the space. At least for me.