Old wooden bench against broken wall.
Man sitting alone on a bench. I shot this from an upper balcony of the President's Palace. I just had to convert it to black and white!
This is one of the first photographs I ever published. When I published it, I named it Benchmark, and suggested that a quiet seat on the bench might be just the antidote for a busy life. It was taken in a monastery in Antigua, Guatemala, that was nearly 500 years old (see the earthquake damage repair in the patterns in the plaster). Mamiya RZ-67. 1991.
The light is very interesting on this bench. There was a circular whole in the floor above, which let the light stream down in a beam.
A bench from which to watch the fall colors, in Monteagle, TN, looking south down the valley.
Old wooden bench against broken wall.
Old wooden bench against broken wall.
Old wooden bench against broken wall.
See photo in original gallery.