The Urban Landscape has possibilities as a genre. Not quite "street," not quite "landscape," at least not in the conventional sense. But it combines elements of both. So the term makes sense, I think.
I like it Ken, some nice bokeh there . . . . Are you increasing the contrast in PS?? I would love to see the raw scan. I am not normally drawn to Urban or Street . . but this shows me there are a lot more possibilities. Thanks.
@John Galt Just responded to your remarks about the railroad locomotive image . . . In this one, I think I boosted the midtones, actually. The bokeh is a by-product of having to stand 50 back from the sign to fit it in my 110mm lens -- the sign is huge! But that's part of what drew me to it as a subject. Unfortunately, I don't keep notes on my fiddling -- actually, I try several settings until I think I see what I saw when I photographed it (what a gawd-awful clause, but I think you get what I mean). Kind of like tasting a dish and adding this and that until I like what it tastes like (I'm an amateur cook too ). And thanks for the response, too.
@bluechromis Actually, there's quite a history behind the sign. Stinker Stations are part of a chain that has existed since just after WWII. Farris Lind, the founder, used to put up signs (sort of like the old Burma Shave highway signs, if you're old enough to remember those) on local highways advertising his cut-rate gas prices. The original joke was that his competition would consider Lind to be a "stinker" for offering low gas prices in a time when gas went for 20 cents a gallon. I remember seeing the signs when I was a kid (um, a long time ago). Anyway, his highway signs would feature elbow-in-the-ribs slogans like "Bear Country Ahead -- count your kids, hide your honey." Yuck yuck yuck. The highway signs are gone, but the memory lives on in immense signs like this one.