It is said that, “Bad weather makes good photographs.” I tested this adage the other day when it was snowing and dull.
The processing of the initial image presents some interesting challenges and choices. Monochrome is also one of the routes that I could have taken.
The objective was to get a feeling of the visually muted nature of the scenes without having the result turn out dull, drab and uninteresting.
You can be the judge, but please be gentle.
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These are photos of an open greenspace and ball-park complex in the middle of a residential neighbourhood here in North Bay. They are being traded for a giant sports complex which is being built on the edge of the swampland at the south end of town, some 8 or 9 kilometers away in the middle of nowhere. Originally 22 houses were to be built on the fields but the hew and cry from the people who live next to these spaces and see them as an important part of their environment got Council to “compromise” by reducing the number of houses to 5. As someone commented at a public meeting: “You’ve threatened to break both of my legs and now you’re going to “compromise” and break only one of them!”
The money from the sale of the land will be used to defray the cost of building the sports complex in the middle of nowhere.
Council seems to know the price of everything and the value of nothing!
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