Coffee break

[mugge]

I took this scene today. I speculate the reason for such a monument to consumerism is that many people just do not care. It is someone else's business. C&C welcome

[Shadowman]

Nice effort.

[bje07]

Nice.
Unusually, I would deliberately focused the trash, the right part does nothing

[Tri Danimal]

Nice.
Unusually, I would deliberately focused the trash, the right part does nothing

I agree cropping in from the right hand side would make a VERY large impact on the message of this photo.


We recently splurged a good amount of money on several high-quality travel mugs, Tupper ware, and heavy-duty reusable ziplock bags, reuseable produce bags, insulated grocery bags (for both hot and cold items) for both my wife and I. We recently have become VERY concenious of our plastic/trash foot print. UNfortunatly SOuthern California USA is not great for reducing our fossil fuel foot print. But we are trying.

[DanK]

I agree cropping in from the right hand side would make a VERY large impact on the message of this photo.


We recently splurged a good amount of money on several high-quality travel mugs, Tupper ware, and heavy-duty reusable ziplock bags, reuseable produce bags, insulated grocery bags (for both hot and cold items) for both my wife and I. We recently have become VERY concenious of our plastic/trash foot print. UNfortunatly SOuthern California USA is not great for reducing our fossil fuel foot print. But we are trying.

Off topic, so I apologize for hijacking the thread, but if you want to reduce your carbon footprint further, you live in one of the ideal places for solar installations. We installed solar panels on our roof almost five years ago, and even in New England, with snow, shorter winter days, and more clouds, we have produced almost as much power as we have consumed. In fact, in several years, we ran net positive, even though we have to pay a small monthly connection fee (reasonable) regardless. This morning I received my March bill: $-23.77. You could probably do this with a considerably smaller array than we had to buy.

But back on topic: I agree about cropping.

[george013]

I would say just more of the environment. It's street photography, not coffee cups photography. Well, unless you think so.

George

[xpatUSA]

I would say just more of the environment. It's street photography, not coffee cups photography. Well, unless you think so.

George

I agree. Besides which, the suggested crop would place the cups dead-center. Some people frown on that from a compositional point of view ...

[Stagecoach]

Well spotted and it sure makes a statement about society these days.

As for crop suggestions, maybe a very tiny bit off the left as to me it helps empathize the girl.

[Tri Danimal]

Off topic, so I apologize for hijacking the thread, but if you want to reduce your carbon footprint further, you live in one of the ideal places for solar installations.

I do agree about us living in the right location. However, the cost of installation is too ungodly for me to reconsider solar at this moment in time. My most recent quote for solar is $25,000 USD, our average monthly electric bill is approximatly $65. We only run our AC when we hit 100+ deg F (37.7 deg C), we have already redone our insulation when the outside temps are 100+ our interrior temp floats about 78 -82 degF.