Ardena School House No2

This had been meant for the MAR/APR 2016 MSA. Another blurry "scan" done with a DSLR of negative on lightbox, plus the terrible loss of resolution going to APUG. I need to find a better way or stop posting images. I am clearly doing something wrong when even drum scan files (this was not one of those) come out so crappy and so many others gallery uploads are just fantastic. Mostly, i need to get the enlarger going and make real prints!

'Not razor sharp, but quite pleasing anyway. Things like the tree bark on the left & its shadow, the 2 shrubs in front of the porch show where it broke into crisp focus. Composition - has me looking. The foreground path makes a very different look than the earlier perspective shot. I can see why it would fit right into the MSA. In another context, the path would have some foreboding feel. 'Here, more the begrudging inevitability of having to go there and listen to some twit drone on about a dangling participle. It does capture alot of feel for the time, what's changed & what hasn't changed. The universality of early school days would touch all but the most numb.

It is funny how the sharpness perception breaks in this photo. The bricks in the fore are crisp and full of texture in the negative, and the slats in the center shutter in the building are sharp. I am going to contact print this soon - what seems to be the big problem with the negative is that value separation didn't come out when turning to positive. Probably a deficiency in the negative. Good example on the right especially but a problem throughout the image. the flagpole is almost unrecognizable, as is the border arrangement of rocks around the base (if you didn't see that there was a flagpole on the right demonstrates the problem).
EDIT - I am with you now what you meant by "earlier perspective shot". Referring to Allaire Church, i put up just for historical reference to clock towers over the altar rather than the entrance of churches. Yes, that was a more dramatic angle with the WA lens. I did not want to put so much drama in this by getting so close to "ant's view" it would be grotesque.
I placed camera closer to eye level of a little people making their way to the porch. I agree the other context, wondered if there was a way to make the photograph choose the intended context. I think it is in the background of the one viewing. When posting to MSA, i resolved with the title how i have always seen this subject. I would rather a photograph stand on its own without need of a title, and "conflicts in interpretation" almost add to the strength of an image to evoke responses.

Yup, different spots show sharp & no telling what happens in the process for other parts.
Your perspective from the little people's view seemed to land just as intended. A different composition & all the foreground might distract, but here it places the schoolhouse as the destination of the path w/ all the mood one brings to that image. 'Easy to like. With no other verbiage or hints, I'm immediately launched into all the memory of early school.