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04-JUN-2010

To work, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2010

As the sun rises, this neighborhood stirs to the tread of maintenance crews on their way to work. I caught this abstracted ladder bearer as he walks among the early morning shadows. The slats in the ladder rhythmically echo the slats in the decorative window treatment behind him.

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Phil Douglis03-Jul-2010 21:26
Good eye, Iris. The posts framing the door in the fence, deep within the shadowy foreground here, to add to the repetition in the window bars, ladder slats, and ladder shadow. Thanks for noting it.
Iris Maybloom (irislm)03-Jul-2010 17:52
The posts of the fence above add to the rhythm of the window bars and ladder slats.
Phil Douglis29-Jun-2010 22:18
I am glad you mentioned your image here, which I used in one of my columns in Communication World a few years ago. I was certainly influenced by my enthusiasm for your image when I lifted my camera to make this one. Your is more abstract, to be sure.Mine uses shadows to follow the man, while your shadows totally abstract the man and his ladder. And yes, the small decoration just above window repeats its rhythms just as the bars over the window and the slats of the ladder do.
Tim May29-Jun-2010 18:59
And the decoration above the window treatment. This is so reminiscent of my image in Petaluma : http://www.pbase.com/mityam/image/25849488 only mine was at the end of the day and yours at the beginning.
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