civilized ku # 780 ~ taken in / on seeing

Grand Union ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen

Of all my photographs, the ones that have most meaning for me are those I was moved to make from a certain vantage point, at a certain moment and no other, and for which I did not draw on my abilities to fabricate a picture, composition-wise or otherwise. You might say that I was taken in. ~ Paul Caponigro

I made this picture "from a certain vantage point, at a certain moment and no other, and for which I did not draw on my abilities to fabricate a picture, composition-wise or otherwise." Indeed, you might say that I was taken in.

For those who might wonder what the hell it was that took me in ... as I was returning to my car after making the Northern Insuring and RESERVED PARKING pictures, the relative warmth of the store interior - as suggested by "the light" therein - in contrast to the cold foreboding clouds together with the somewhat human scale of the store (with its "traditional" copula) in contrast to the looming and seemingly impenetrable brick wall (with it's "high-tech" satellite dish) just took me in and stopped me in my tracks.

You know - kinda like what it means to be human while standing in the shadow of the march of "progress".