Padlock, Upland Santa Cruz

[pecunium]

Padlock, Upland Santa Cruz, originally uploaded by pecunium.

We were walking back from a trip up to the lava tubes in the highlands of Santa Cruz. We took a cab up, and walked back.

It's an exercise in how the camera can lie. What does the entire gate look like? What's the gate protecting? Ignoring the, apparent, condition of the wood (which is at a moderate premium on the islands) how secure is the area behind the gate?

The answers are: the gate is low (not quite four feet, as I recall), what's behind it is a yard, with some children's toys. Just down the way was an entrance to the yard, with no gate.

But it's still a nice photograph. I particularly like the way the wear from the chain is apparent

Comments

[intelligentrix.livejournal.com]

I really like the intricacy of the lock itself, and the patina on it and the chain.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

The lock was what caught my eye. The hard part was the "gardening" (i.e. getting the distractions in the background out of the shot. In some of the shots I did it by moving, and in others I had to adjust the angle just a bit to put the stiles of the fence in front of the toys.

But it was the lock's essence I wanted to catch.