My immediate feeling on seeing this, is that somewhere around this subject there's a wonderful shot waiting to get out, but that this looks like the kind of thing taken to remind one of the situation, in order to go back later. The contrast of life and death, rust and green, is tempting, but this for me is too obvious, too straightforward. Get personal with it - get low daown and try and create weird landscapes across the rusted car, with the greenery forming an horizon, or a foreground, or concentrate on the strange angles around that exposed subframe ... there must be magical images here :-)
The composition is what mostly makes this look like a reminder shot: positioning of the car in frame seems arbitrary, from centre bottom to mid centre top - it doesn't lead me anywhere, doesn't point up the contrast of metal and plants. 5 |