Kongo likes this week’s photo challenge so much he decided to submit two entries. So today he was knocking about Old Town waiting for Mrs. Kongo to show up for a lunch date and took the picture above of a cactus against an adobe wall. He really likes this image. He likes the color of the wall and the muddy stain on the lower half against the green cactus. And he likes the overall lighting which was in the shade of the building eave.
After lunch he was walking back toward his car and passed the same spot again and saw the cactus in a whole new light. Literally. The sun had moved past the eave and for the first time, Kongo saw the three windows trailing off to the right. This seemed like such a simple picture. The cactus, the wall, the windows. But the simple pictures are sometimes the best, so this is the same shot a second way times two.
Kongo likes both the images. Which is your favorite?
See more entries in the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge. A link to Kongo’s original entry is shown below.
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I like both sets!
Me too! 🙂
I think I prefer the photo with the windows, shows so much of the stark setting for the cactus.
Thank you, Lily. I lean toward that one too.
I also prefer the one withthe windows…more of the context is sometimes better (not always but in this case I think it is important)…my two cents. (Suzanne)
I agree that context is important in a photo.
Aww that’s nice! The second one has a little more for me. Kind of romantic? 🙂
Love on the cactus trail? LOL. Thanks Jo!
I think the second one is especially touching, the lonely cactus, the only spot of green surviving in the dry earth next to the building heating up in the sun. I love the first photo but when I saw the second it spoke to me more.
Thanks, Kris.
I love the simple cactua shot myself. Good eye that Kongo!
Tina, I do like the colors in that one. Kinda Georgia Okeeffey….