Walk Away
by GinaRothfels

Comment by posthumous:
This shot is either from a casino/hotel monstrosity in Atlantic City, or someplace similar. The sky is painted on the ceiling. I've been to a place like this and it is unsettling and demoralizing. It suggests that reality is unnecessary, that capitalism can cherry pick the best parts of actual experience and give you a mediated and remunerated experience that is superior.

The photographer takes this distorted experience and distorts it further with a fisheye lens and dirty filter. Instead of the conventional (yawn) straight perspective lines, one sees a curved perspective. The vanishing point is distressingly nearby, like an omen of imminent doom.

Ants
by GinaRothfels

Comment by mariuca:
Right!

Walk Away
by GinaRothfels

Comment by spencelg:
My pick for yellow in this challenge.

Ants
by GinaRothfels

Comment by roz:
of course your title grabbed me .. ;)
so I opened it ..
what a brilliant image .. loving the distortion and your bnw edit ..
should do well ..
I'm not voting yet .. :)

Art
by GinaRothfels

Comment by spencelg:
My favorite in this challenge.

Escalators
by GinaRothfels

Comment by noraneko:
Gina, I love this photo - I just think you got dinged for the challenge you chose. I suspect this would have done better in a free study, for example

At Lunch
by GinaRothfels

Comment by GinaRothfels:

Originally posted by glad2badad: I like this mostly, but thought there was a lot of unnecessary empty space at the top of the photo. The key to the story is the young lady ... sell us on that. :-) A 4x6 crop with her below the treeline would have been much more to the point IMO.

Thanks.

This is already heavily cropped. Cropping further might have reduced the image quality.

At Lunch
by GinaRothfels

Comment by glad2badad:
I like this mostly, but thought there was a lot of unnecessary empty space at the top of the photo. The key to the story is the young lady ... sell us on that. :-) A 4x6 crop with her below the treeline would have been much more to the point IMO.

Tulips
by GinaRothfels

Comment by roz:
this is gorgeous Gina .. :)

On Stage
by GinaRothfels

Comment by posthumous:
good action portrait