Sidewalk

For a while now, I have wanted to take pictures of 30th Street, the street I live on. It is a fantastic street full of shops, cute houses, and more beer varieties than just about any street in the country.

Today, Ryan and I walked down 30th Street (as well as some adjacent streets) to try to take pictures responding to the some of the photo challenges from photochallenge.com: Simple, Control, Shadow, Road, and Sidewalk.

This was the best of many shots I took of sidewalks, but... something is not quite right. I like the lolling cat in the foreground, highlighting the lazy inactivity of the sidewalk. I also like the sidewalk receding into the plants and trees in the background, with the endless, wavelike shadows of the powerlines. But the vast, middle is a bit distracting. Perhaps I should have stepped back a bit so that the cat was further into the picture and away from the borders. This would have given me more room to crop. Photography is a tricky business.