artBob Loc: Near Chicago

Two different photos, each to be processed differently to ring out its idea, is how I see them.

Bruce716

To be honest...I didn't notice SOLD in either one at first.

RichinSeattle

Nobody else has mentioned it, but the first shows two sides of the house, the second shows only the front. The sign is visible in both, so I'll choose the first.

mitxpic

And the sign looks almost as derlict as the house. And is buried in the weeds.How long ago did it sell? I like #1 best.

GES

I think the first photo has more intrigue, more mystery b/c you get the same perspective with slightly less tilt, and if you zoom in on the sign in download, the same story. But it's as if the lonely old abandoned house wants to reach out to you to tell you its story, to introduce you to the ghosts inside its walls. In the second shot, the more tilted perspective makes the house seem too desperate, too eager to reach you. But then maybe I just read too many ghost stories. .

MHDahle

#2 tells a whole story, and the angle of the sign leads the eye to the house. #1 is another old house....very well done, but no real story.

trapper1 Loc: Southside Virginia

This is probably the house that inspire Stuart Hamblen to write "This Old House…."

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

I prefer the first image. The house, itself, speaks for its decline and impending demise and does not need the sign to add to the poignancy of the story. I think I would have preferred the picture to have been taken from the right side of the sign and mail box but at the same angle removing the barn from the background. This is the sort of scene that calls for a whole raft of images; wide angle shots to place the house in its setting, the entire house from all sides and finally close up of details of the house and also of features around the yard and outbuildings. That is just my opinion, other folks could happily drive by with no regrets about not stopping and making a photograph. I am glad lowkick stopped and made this exellent image.