Views from a Bus in Winter

[Don Schaeffer]

Trail to the End of Town




Trees Behind Kildonan Place



House with Fence of Tree Branches

[GB1]

Don - They almost seem like they were taken back in the late 1800s or perhaps during the Depression era. The picture quality is bad on the top one contributing to that old feeling. The second is an interesting experiment but at the end of the day it's still way too overexposed and bright to merit serious consideration. The bottom one is the best - I like the feeling of movement it has (or seems to) though I wish I could see more of what's on the sides. I think shooting from a bus will always produce a journalistic feeling to photographs.

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[Frog]

Pretty soon, I'll feel like I can make my way around Winnipeg without ever having been there.
#1 doesn't have the landmarks that you usually include or they are too remote to tell what they are.
I almost like #2 and might change my mind one way or the other. Almost surreal or some other art term I don't know. I wish you could have aimed lower and include just a bit of foreground under the line of trees. Might have brought a bus window fram in though so I don't know.
#3, I would like if the branches had more focus. Probably difficult from a moving bus.

[MB1]

The middle image is the one for me. It looks like an art-photo experiment and has no connection to the fact that you were sitting in a bus. The colors really add to the winter feel. I am not sure about the few branches in the upper right sky, I might crop them out.

[polarbeardiggers]

#3 i know exactly where that house is and really deserves a full color print,they did a awesome job of creating a fence bordering the front of the property that sits across a park near the river by talbot ave and nairne ,.

[Don Schaeffer]

Thanks guys. Cropping is the trick when you take photos through a dirty bus window. The truth is, there is no foreground in photo #2 except a rill of ice at the edge of the road. Thanks Mr. Polar Bear Digger Man.