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Fifth Time's the Charm

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If you read the alt-text from this post then you’ll be aware that this photograph was in the works. Alas, I could not do it on the fourth attempt - a static subject somehow was a ’little soft focus’. Returning the following day with improved light I nailed the composition (and focus).

A black and white 3:2 ratio landscape orientated photograph of a white textured concrete building wall with two boxes affixed thereto. A black metal fence with two ropes tied and a white concrete wall are also included in the photograph. The two boxes are in the left third of the frame with their bases about halfway up and their tops about a quarter of the way down. I guess the boxes are electrical in function. They both have small Yale-style locks midway on their left-hand side. The left hand box - which is close to the left edge of the photo - is completely encased in metal. The right-side one - the right side of which is relatively close to the centre of the image - has a small darkened window in its top right. Otherwise it too is clad in metal. Both boxes exude a semi-circle glow above them which will be fun to play with when I do a full edit on the photograph. The black fence has 12 rungs inside its frame. The left of the frame is exactly halfway along the photo and lines up with a depression in the back wall. This was the main reason return and so they lined-up better. The top of the fence frame is halfway up from the bottom (or halfway down from the top if you prefer). Two ropes have been tied to the fence: the top rope to the eleventh rung and the bottom rope to the twelfth rung. The ropes are both taut and run to the right of the photograph but are hidden by the white concrete wall which starts very close to the right frame of the fence. That wall runs out of the photo (not literally) on the right and is a little higher than the height of the fence. The fence sits on a sturdy concrete base as does the wall. These bases are separate constructions but joined together: unlike what they are supporting. The fence base is a more darker colour than the wall’s - perhaps it doesn’t take the weathering that well? There are two overhead cable shadows cast along the wall. The lower one runs the complete width of the photograph. It starts bottom left just a tad above the exposed ‘foundation layer’ of the building wall. This foundation’s top is about a third of the way up from the bottom of the frame. The shadow then slopes up and its bottom edge clips the top left corner of the fence frame and then clips the top left corner of the wall next to the fence before departing photograph stage right. The second, slightly weaker shadow, starts also on the left about a quarter of the way from the top edge of the photograph. Sloping upwards it clips the top of that central building wall depression exactly in the vertical centre of the photograph and at the top edge of the photograph. Yes, I needed to crop but I’m working with a 95% viewfinder. Allow me some wiggle room (about 5% methinks)? So after all that, what are the ropes doing then Guy? Well, I’m so glad you asked. Each prior visit I didn’t bother to look. So knowing that my eager audience would need to know I had a peep behind the curtain as it were… suffice to say the ropes are not holding up the fence but are helping to secure a couple of large objects to the right of the wall and well out of the frame of this photograph. Fret not, dear reader, a photograph of what those ropes support has been captured and will appear on the site within the month. In the meantime, feel free to let me know any suggestions you might have as to what those objects are. Until then…take care!

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