Oh no, you are absolutely not wrong, AJ, quite the contrary. It is only that you seem to have some different "rating scale" about the city.
First of all, yes, it was my intention to catch all those signs, lights, reflections, steel, glass, and so on as the very transmittance of the streets in town. So we have what *is*.
Now, this reality is for me already human in its own way. Those many people that live in such places and the circumstances of this kind of a life are to me remarkable. It's not that kind of beauty of some isolated forest, or a valley in green, but it does have another beauty which results out of the presence of all individuals that live their lives (mainly) in the city, and just struggle and fight - and sometimes have also some more peaceful moments too. The city offers much more possibilituies for direct and raw confrontation - and from exactly this point we take the next steps, for example in direction of the very meaning of humanity, of respect, of understanding. Talking about such things out of the comfort of some green valley is quite a cheat to me. It is much more human in its very essence to have to come in touch with some neighbors that had of course to have a party last night, that prevented me from sleeping some hours as I had an interview for a new job next morning ;-) That confrontation contains much more the human element for me.
It may sound funny here, so funny as in some kind of theater play about simple plain life in a place that I have to share with many others like me - and I am one of them. It's just Jack and Mac on the streets that I will love sometimes and also hate other times - it's human.
And it is still the city and all these confrontations that support and generate also much more. Like for example thinking about social problems, about the sense of being, about the sense of working, about politics, religion, (non)existence of god and devil, mathematics, and so on, and so on. In a world without interaction there is no need for any philosophy apart from wondering how beautiful some flower is.
Don't get me wrong here too, I do admire and enjoy nature, but this is not enough to me. I am human! I am better than nature, since that very nature constructed also my mind which is able to question its maker right afterwards. ;-) And the finding is that nature is way not as perfect, as some first romantic view might suggest. ;-)
Good street shot, Nick, with the reflections of the older buildings in the modern glass and steel. The people going in and the ones looking out from the cafe add human interest, as well. Dave.
If this really were the zoo, I think the animals would be feeling incredibly sorry for the poor humans couped up inside these awful glass and steel cages. And they'd surely wonder why more humans were going inside voluntarily to join them. I can almost feel the rank over-heated air pouring out of the doorway.
This makes me cringe and go running back to my wild country isolation (which I just happen to be doing today, and which may be influencing my views...) Don't get me wrong, I love cities as well, as long as they have a human scale, are fun and pleasant places to be and I don't have to stay there too long.
I hope that's what you wanted this image to portray. If so, then it's clearly a great image! But if I got it totally wrong, well...
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