Richmond-6

Update July 24, 2012
I chose this image for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside, because it really makes me wonder what's inside this old, presumably abandoned store. Is there life inside? You can hardly see beyond the mangled cardboard boxes. The life magazines hanging are a mystery. Than there is that fastidious tape job on the window. Is it to keep together pieces of a shattered life?

May 18, 2012
This image reminds me why I love photography. The stories, the mystery, the drama one can create in a single moment with tight framing. Shot with slide film years ago, this scene still challenges me. It survives as a single artifact in my portfolio. I wish I had taken more captures of this, but in the days of film I always shot very carefully. Maybe on that day I felt I had captured the only meaning and composition this scene could give...