BalconVille

When someone asks you in Quebec, 'Where you going on
vacation ?' Some say Balconville, meaning 'Can't afford,
or unable to leave for vacation, going to spend it on my
balcony.

Posted by S Roter on Wed, 10/12/16 09:10
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Comments by Jan Bjorklund on Wed, 10/12/16 09:19

I like the perspective which works to bring an Escher like sense (up, down, around) to the image of the adjoining balconies and fire escapes. Your treatment heightens the visual impact of the picture.


Comments by S Roter on Wed, 10/12/16 09:19


Comments by Michael Meek on Wed, 10/12/16 12:57

Oh my, not pretty for people to be living like poor rabbits in steel cages. Dramatic images with a capital "D." I like your idea of making the sky a fog bank that seems to be settling lower as if it were a metaphor for lost lives. The rust coloring adds to the sense of decay in a particularly dispiriting way, because even in advancing decay these steel and brick buildings are going to stand too long. I like the second for its blue sky offering -- also a metaphor.


Comments by Jan Bjorklund on Wed, 10/12/16 13:57

Your second image has even more visual impact than the first, if that is possible. I do find the contrast between the barred feel of the view up through the fire escapes and balconies to the blue sky evokes the sense of one being caged (one has the sense of viewing the tiers in a prison rising high above one's head while far in the distance is the blue sky with no seeming possibility of one to escape to the freedom of the sky).


Comments by Linda Frey on Wed, 10/12/16 22:27

I like the handrails angling outwards to the lower corners in the OP. Good colours too.


Comments by Jacky on Thu, 10/13/16 12:50

Very nice! I like both of these, but the OP is standout. Great
colors and wonderfully processed.


Comments by Paul Bracey on Mon, 10/17/16 01:10

liking these