Ch #43 candidates?

[Jerry Curtis]

I shot these two while taking a walk this evening just at sunset. I first thought the one with the meadow and fence would be my fave because of the incongruity of it. After all, how many schools are located next to a pastureland like this? Then I turned my cam back toward the school and I'm now thinking this is the better composition.

I would like honest assessments of these shots - both from their compositional and technical aspects, and their suitability for the new challenge 43. Which - if either - would you enter?

http://www.pbase.com/icicle50/image/46083125.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/icicle50/image/46083124.jpg

Thanks for your help...

[purified]

The slide is an excellent idea, but you need a more creative angle with less clutter in the background. Perhaps you could reshoot with a more upward angle so that sky is your background (it would be best not to have clouds or very few). That would give the photograph a more abstract feel and would focus more on the curves of the slide.

Play with your angles. Get in there and try every idea you can. Even get on the slide if you feel you need to. :)

Maybe I'm being too specific, hehe. All the same, I'd love to see something along those lines with that idea.

[lpswimmer003]

Cool idea. Maybe if you get on top of the slide and look down on it?

[Jerry Curtis]

The slide is an excellent idea, but you need a more creative angle with less clutter in the background. Perhaps you could reshoot with a more upward angle so that sky is your background (it would be best not to have clouds or very few). That would give the photograph a more abstract feel and would focus more on the curves of the slide.

Play with your angles. Get in there and try every idea you can. Even get on the slide if you feel you need to. :)

Maybe I'm being too specific, hehe. All the same, I'd love to see something along those lines with that idea.
All great suggestions. You are very imaginative. I will see what I can do.

Thanks again.

BTW, your galleries are awesome! You have a natural telent for image design for sure.

[Jerry Curtis]

Cool idea. Maybe if you get on top of the slide and look down on it?
That's an idea, for sure!

[photocat]

I would choose the first one of those, the second is rather boring. I love the suggestions you got to work on the picture, it has potential. You have found a good subject, all you need now is some weird angles and positions so you can surprise us with a fab shot of a slide...
Make that red slide POP off the page

[Jerry Curtis]

I would choose the first one of those, the second is rather boring. I love the suggestions you got to work on the picture, it has potential. You have found a good subject, all you need now is some weird angles and positions so you can surprise us with a fab shot of a slide...
Make that red slide POP off the page
I intend to do just that. This slide is only a couple of miles from my home, so I expect to get a chance to get back to it before long and do some gymnastics with my cam :D