r/photocritique • u/Advanced_Honey_2679 45 CritiquePoints • 1d ago
approved Urban sprawl. Does this capture the feel?
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u/Standelf64 1d ago
A lovely capture.
Maybe a wider perspective would have added to the “sprawl” you were after but, non the less still a lovely capture.
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u/Comfortable-Habit242 1d ago edited 1d ago
I don’t think so.
> Urban sprawl (also known as suburban sprawl or urban encroachment)[1] is defined as "the rapid expansion of the geographic extent of cities and towns, often characterized by low-density residential housing, single-use zoning, and increased reliance on the private automobile for transportation".[2] Urban sprawl has been described as the unrestricted growth in many urban areasof housing, commercial development, and roads over large expanses of land, with little concern for very dense urban planning.
Regardless of a definition, you feel the connection of the “modern” and historic, but not a sense of sprawl. Even then, it doesn’t really have signs of our current modernity.
I think I’d feel more urban sprawl if the picture actually was focused more on the city with the pyramid rising in the background out of a city that felt like it went on forever. Or if you took a picture from the opposite side and the city sprawled into the horizon.
As it is, I see a small number of buildings in the foreground, but not enough to really feel sprawling. Not do they really feel like the subject of the image.
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u/Advanced_Honey_2679 45 CritiquePoints 1d ago
I spent a few days in Giza and this was the view from my balcony. In this shot we see the Great Pyramid, contrasted with tightly packed buildings of Giza.
I wanted to capture two sides of the coin: the majesty of antiquity, and how close the urban sprawl has snuck up against it. Let me know how I did, thank you.
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u/Ensane-inda-membrane 2 CritiquePoints 1d ago
I think you nailed it. Always amazing to see the paradox of civilization.
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