I’m digging the close crop I have in the first shot - I’m thinking I’m going to experiment with this a bit more - up until now I hadn’t realized how close I could get with my camera - until I looked at the focal distance on my lens. Tight cropping was always something I did in much of my previous work, I like how when you get close to objects they lose their “identity” and you start focusing on textures and tones. Edward Weston did a lot of that type of stuff and I always found his work mesmerizing. It became like a children’s game where you’re given a picture of a texture and you have to guess what it is.

I like the lock shot for the contrast and also the framing; I enjoy pictures that weigh heavily to one side. I like how that little dot of blackness keeps drawing my attention - it’s just this little dot, but it keeps pulling my eye away from the lock making wonder what it is. Is it a hole? Some kind of aberration? A smudge on the lens? But then I can come back to the lock and bask in lines on the lock itself, the grit of the rust on the handle. Ooh, something I just noticed, the door is slightly ajar, and the lock is off, it almost hints at some danger beyond. Is the lock on there to keep us out or to keep something in?

This week I favor the first photo. It has a sense of depth and dimension that separates it from the other. There’s also great depth of field, and your composition frames the scene from the bottom left nicely using shadows. The texture in the glass (and the fact that it’s not completely blown out) keeps my eye from wandering out the window. What do YOU think?