Members bridge and banking at Brooklands

[pschlute]

IMGP4453-HDR by Peter Schluter, on Flickr

IMGP4281-HDR by Peter Schluter, on Flickr

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Hi Peter: I like your bridge image because it's different. The ground seems to convey movement sliding to the right. A nice effect aided by the white streaks. Maybe bring out some detail in the trees, perhaps.

[DanK]

Peter,

Where do you want the viewer to look?

Both of them, but particularly the first, draw my eye to the bottom left corner, which I suspect isn't where you want it to be. Rather than serving as a framing element, the foreground dominates, IMHO.

Dan

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For me, the image was more about the ground than the bridge. It does dominate as Dan stated.

[pschlute]

Peter,

Where do you want the viewer to look?

There are two elements in the scene, the bridge and the banked race circuit. Of the two, the latter is more important, so your eye is being drawn where I want it.

I was trying to convey a slightly melancholy image of a racetrack that had it's last race run on it 82 years ago. In hindsight I should not have mentioned the bridge in the title perhaps.

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I didn't know it was a racetrack. Now the second image makes more sense to me. For a worldwide audience stating it's a racetrack in the title or description would be helpful for viewers.

[Manfred M]

Thanks Peter - the image makes more sense now with the explanation of being an abandoned racetrack.

The image still does not work for me all that well, even though I now know what this is. I suspect there is a better way of telling this story and this image would work well as part of a series on the location. The nice thing about photography exhibitions is that there is always an artist's statement as well as descriptions of all of the images.

[pschlute]

Taking Manfred's advice I present a few more of the old racetrack, including a section which runs alongside a supermarket where they cut a section of banking for a new road. The last picture is not great photographically but does serve to show how the modern world has grown up around the old.

IMGP4337 by Peter Schluter, on Flickr

IMGP4201 by Peter Schluter, on Flickr

IMGP4187 by Peter Schluter, on Flickr

IMGP4229 by Peter Schluter, on Flickr

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Taking Manfred's advice I present a few more of the old racetrack, including a section which runs alongside a supermarket where they cut a section of banking for a new road. The last picture is not great photographically but does serve to show how the modern world has grown up around the old.

Never visited Brooklands when I lived in England, but I "flew" over there today:



Looks like your last shot is where the A318 intersects the track, judging by the Tesco sign ...

[pschlute]

Hi Ted

The last shot is actually looking Eastwards from the A318 at a point directly below the x in Tesco Extra

There are three sections here that have been dissected by roads and are being slowly taken over by nature. Interestingly, the course of the track and runway is still visible from the air.

ps...I must check out "Home Bargains" !

[Manfred M]

The additional images really add to the "story". I like that.

Given all the development in the area, I suspect some developer is going to put some buildings into that large area sooner rather than later.

[pschlute]

Given all the development in the area, I suspect some developer is going to put some buildings into that large area sooner rather than later.

Inevitable i think unfortunately.

ps. here is a picture of me taking these images