Prague #2
by Steven Richman
Comments (3)
Sandy Tolman
Something about the feel of it - modern tourists - a moment of everyday life - reminds me of Eve Arnold's "all in a day's work" which I have in hardback, but your images are just as good or better.
Sandy Tolman
How did you get such good detail from so high up? Your bird's eye view gives an interesting angle! The couple conferring together are quintessential modern tourists. In their shadow all that makes them modern is erased and a truly romantic timelessness is cast; both they and their shadow touch these stones. The shadow could almost have been cast by any couple standing on those paving stones fifty or a hundred years before, but it belongs to them. It is interesting how the gray and blue grid of the gentleman's plaid shirt is echoed in the subtle gray and tan square on square mosaic grid of the pavement. Somehow, the lines of the couple's shadow are in perfect parallel with the grids of the paving stones - the shadow's heads framed perfectly in the center of a square in square.