A couple of shots from a changing neighborhood

[Rich Rohrich]

Thanks Terry. I gave an 11x14 print of this once to a friend of mine and she spent $200 getting it professionally framed for her office. That was good enough for me.

 

[justalonewolf007]

I think it would be an interesting to have three versions of this piece in a frame side by side...full color on the left, an edited version in the middle, where the graffiti wall was in color with the rest in black and white, and full black and white on the right...

 

[Okiewan]

Rich.

That one belongs in a mag for all to see. :cool:

You have an incredible eye for this stuff.

Rich def has an Urban talent .... and lives in a GREAT place to capture it at it's best. Incredible eye my friend, inspiring to say the least.

The shot of Birdman is, IMHO, the best shot you've captured to date. This shot is Time/Life quality. The flying rat on each shoulder and one on the head? Perfect catch. The post-process B&W conversion is spot on as well.

I have to give it up for the architectural stuff as well. Well done.

I'd love to get a hi-res copy to print/frame with my "Dallas" series ...

 

[fatcat216]

Rich def has an Urban talent .... and lives in a GREAT place to capture it at it's best. Incredible eye my friend, inspiring to say the least.

The shot of Birdman is, IMHO, the best shot you've captured to date. This shot is Time/Life quality. The flying rat on each shoulder and one on the head? Perfect catch. The post-process B&W conversion is spot on as well.

I have to give it up for the architectural stuff as well. Well done.

I'd love to get a hi-res copy to print/frame with my "Dallas" series ...

I hope you guys will talk some sense into him. He's too modest about sharing his talents.

 

[Green Horn]

Like Okie says...Rich has an urban talent. I LOVE the shots on the first page. BnW/ sephia?? seems to work well with those shots. The one with the bridge in the foreground and the building in the background is awesome IMO. I don't what it is, but it just does it for me. Nice work again, Rich!

 

[Rich Rohrich]

Thanks Greenie. That's a picture of the LaSalle St bridge looking east towards the Clark St bridge. That's the area where the Eastland disaster occurred in 1915. The Sepia tone seemed to fit the scene, or it fit the way it looks to me in my head. :)

For those not familiar with the S. S. Eastland disaster. Here's some info and photos from the Chicago Public Library website.

http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/timeline/eastland.html

On the morning of July 24, 1915, the lake passenger steamer Eastland cast off from the Chicago River dock at the Clark Street Bridge with 2,572 people aboard.

Immediately the ship listed away from the dock, righted herself, listed again and slowly rolled over on her side and settled on the mud of the river bottom.

Some of those on board, all Western Electric Company employees and their families, were able to jump into the water and swim ashore, but 844 excursionists lost their lives before rescuers reached them, making the Eastland disaster by far the worst in the city's history in terms of loss of life.



Here's what it looks like upright

and here's what it looked like after it rolled over :yikes:

 

[RYDMOTO]

Hi Rich...my thoughts are black and white on cold overcast lifeless days.
If you use color on the graffiti (which is very colorful) --my thought is to capture an orange or purplish sunset in the sky that would compliment the colors on the wall.One gives a sense of warmth with mystery and the other cold and lifeless...as if the painters are screaming to a deaf world...nobody cares.
You better DO something with the birdman picture.It says so much...from his eyes and wrinkles...to the way his cuffs are sewed.A lonely man finding solace with his birds.
Call me sometime...I would love to ride around with you looking for shots to take.