Not much to say here. I was taking long-exposure shots of nighttime traffic in the canyon below, came past this closet in a building back by my car, and was somehow struck by it. Later I realized it would have been better if I’d stepped back a bit to get the stairs on the left fully in frame, but the geometry and light of the whole thing still pleased me somehow despite that.
This is the kind of shot I used to post on some of the newsgroups on Flickr and elsewhere to get feedback; over time, I realized that a lot of those groups had great technical advice but narrowly conventional aesthetic and subject-matter preferences. They didn’t care for a whole range of themes, compositions, and strategies that otherwise crop up a fair amount in artistic photography. There’s a point where collective wisdom starts to fail if you’re too dependent on it, but you can learn a lot from it as you try to figure out what to improve in your own work.