End

[wilfredo]

I shot this last night while visiting my sister on City Island in the Bronx. This "Red Light" at the end of her street has always intrigued me. Beyond it is a barrier and beyond that ocean water. It was shot in the fog. It puts me in touch with my mortality and impermanence; all things come to an END. I hope I captured a bit of the sense of otherness this Red Light in the dark fog provokes in me. Paradoxically although it puts me in touch with my mortality, there is something of an eternal quality here I can't quite put my finger on.

Wilfredo
Benitez-Rivera Photography

[rubenkok]

Cool picture Wilfredo

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end

Thanks to the Doors,
yours
Ruben

[michael_boylan]

Yes, it makes an imposing photograph.

[ejd]

An evocative image.

It brings to mind a green light, rather than a red one, not a million miles away from yours, also on the edge of the water.

This is the one that burned at the end of Daisy Buchanan's dock in East Egg (in F Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'). Jay Gatsby would gaze at it from the lawn of his house in West Egg, across the bay. For Gatsby, the light represented all that was desirable and unattainable. The American dream?

The last paragraphs of the book can be read at The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (chapter9)

[azzo]

Wilfredo,

This image makes you think hard within your inner self.
Bang in the middle...perfectly presented.

Azzo

[rougewave]

Wilfredo, powerful, unconscious image. Iwas across the Sound in Pt Washington shooting at water's edge. The sign is for landlubbers. for sailors, it's the beginning of a vast water world. You must be amazed by the changes on City Island. It was the center of the marine industry in New York for 2 centuries. A very unique island. Ben

[stuny]

wilfredo -

Excellent, perfect framing, siren-like in its draw, while being unsettling.

[wilfredo]

Hey Gang, I'm impressed with the degree of thoughtful commentary here. Your words touch something deep within and give me lots to think about and ponder. I love it when this happens on the forum, this certainly can be a place for deep thought related to images! Thank you, thank you!

Wilfredo
Benitez-Rivera Photography

[johnastovall]

Wilfredo, it a thoughtful picture. I love pictures which capture these islands of light the in dark...

[kld]

Striking and atmospherical photo.
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Klaus