An OC Transpo Orion VI bus in shadow at the Lincoln Fields Transitway stop in western Ottawa.
I decided not to touch this one at all in Photoshop, other than to reduce the file size, because I really like the dramatic interplay between light and shadow in this one, with the bus and the bus stop in the foreground darkened by the edge of a cloud overhead, while the bushes just behind the bus and the apartment building are illuminated by a shaft of late-afternoon sunlight that contrasts with the stormy skies behind it.
Something about the mood of this picture really reminds me of the beautiful imagery found in Hitoshi Ashinano's recently-finished manga series, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (known as "Café Alpha" in some parts of the world), set in a post-cataclysmic but peaceful future where there are some people left (as well as humanlike robots), but the numbers are beginning to dwindle, and artifacts of modern urban life in the areas abandoned by man slowly begin to be reclaimed by nature. (This manga has never been officially brought over to the English world, but fan translations of most of the manga can be read here, and the opening sequence from the first two-episode direct to video anime adaptation OVA series can be seen here.)
An OC Transpo Orion VI bus in shadow at the Lincoln Fields Transitway stop in western Ottawa.
I decided not to touch this one at all in Photoshop, other than to reduce the file size, because I really like the dramatic interplay between light and shadow in this one, with the bus and the bus stop in the foreground darkened by the edge of a cloud overhead, while the bushes just behind the bus and the apartment building are illuminated by a shaft of late-afternoon sunlight that contrasts with the stormy skies behind it.
Something about the mood of this picture really reminds me of the beautiful imagery found in Hitoshi Ashinano's recently-finished manga series, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (known as "Café Alpha" in some parts of the world), set in a post-cataclysmic but peaceful future where there are some people left (as well as humanlike robots), but the numbers are beginning to dwindle, and artifacts of modern urban life in the areas abandoned by man slowly begin to be reclaimed by nature. (This manga has never been officially brought over to the English world, but fan translations of most of the manga can be read here, and the opening sequence from the first two-episode direct to video anime adaptation OVA series can be seen here.)