Suburbia on Thin Ice

[Marko]

Oh this is VERY nice! Nominated.

Just curious did you take a shot without the sign - although the sign works for me in this shot, it's totally stealing the show. I could EASILY see many (more) people wanting to put this on their wall if the sign were gone.

[F8&Bthere]

Oh this is VERY nice! Nominated.

Just curious did you take a shot without the sign - although the sign works for me in this shot, it's totally stealing the show. I could EASILY see many (more) people wanting to put this on their wall if the sign were gone.

Well to be honest I didn't think a shot of a row of houses reflecting in a lake was enough to stand on it's own. Nice, but nothing special...a shot anyone could take without any creative thought. The sign spoke to me in some way- thin ice warning, the reflection, the row of typical new development suburban homes- you'll think I'm nuts but it had a desperate housewives/weeds- "little boxes" theme song/what goes on behind closed doors in middle class america kinda feel to it TO ME, and then the name Suburbia on Thin Ice just kinda seemed to fit that vision.

P.S.- I almost wish I could get that "Little Boxes made of Ticky Tacky" song to play each time someone views the photo...haha...now I'm going to have it in my head again all day.

[Marko]

Well to be honest I didn't think a shot of a row of houses reflecting in a lake was enough to stand on it's own. Nice, but nothing special...a shot anyone could take without any creative thought.

Maybe when you took the shot it was nothing special, but you worked it REAL nice

[F8&Bthere]

Thanks! And although the sign is the element that gives the shot meaning (to me) you are right that it is too large in the frame. If I had a wider lens it might have been better. I had a 50-200 on zoomed all the way out as I recall. Could have stepped back but that would change the reflection perspective and made the houses smaller.

Good news is that this is a short walk from my home (not one of the nice lakeside ones in the photo, unfortunately, but ticky tacky nonetheless) and I could reproduce this fairly easily on any day with little wind and a decent sunset.... not always as easy as it sounds in the southern alberta foothills, well the wind part anyway.