Home Town help needed - Please!

[Mira]

This is only a start, I'll need more help after this, I can't see straight after crawling all around some weird places.

I've struggled. In my diverse City of Winston-Salem, NC there are things I love and things that make me sad. The smell of tobacco in the air, that was here from the downtown factories, is gone now.
"Winston-Salem, Cigarette City" do you like any of them?

[Celebration]

1. oh my gosh love the third one

that is awesome.

Where in the world is that camel opening thing? Is that where you were crawling around? :rofl:

Like the second one too.

[Mira]

2. That thing is a cut out of rusty metal a blacksmith friend gave me years ago.

It's from my yard. I schlepped it in my truck. I set it up at Richard Joshua Reynolds' grave, and took some photos, then did not like them. I asked a stranger to hold it at the defunct factories so I could shoot through it.
It's been an adventure.

[KC]

3. That's cool

What a brilliant idea to do that. I do like the 3rd one the best.

[Stevenmarc]

4. Third one's the charm

[rdking647]

5. i like the camel cutout

[Stevenmarc]

6. The RJR Smokestack

Shot through a camel is genius. It's a clever use of using their own branding to tell your own story, it just works on so many levels.

[Mira]

7. Thanks friends, the camel seems pretty unanimous. What happens to me,

especially with this subject, is emotional involvement gets in the way but the minute I post something I begin to see it through your eyes. I wanted to show how the demise of tobacco has affected our downtown, and the rusting industrial leftovers are eyesores with great meaning to us if we go and take a look. Many of the roads are closed off, and there is lots of barbed wire.

I think I did not succeed in really showing it. I have photos that are much better at it, but then the RJR chimneys aren't in the pictures. I think I may let it go altogether, or get a wide angle lens.

Thanks again for your input and patience. I'll pull out some more for you tomorrow, because I am still floundering.