The Boulangerie...a Hopper-esque photo with E-M5

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Nighthawks by Edward Hopper_1942_oil on Canvas_ Chicago Art Institute

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Drug Store by Edward Hopper_1927_ oil on canvas_Boston Museum of Fine Arts

I appreciate your initiative which prompted many of us to indulge in a little excursion into the world of painting and I appreciate the result which is a more than appreciable interpretation. To my taste technically well executed.

However giving way to the temptation of playing the "art critic" I wish to add that the "message" of Hopper's paintings represented above is that of "isolation within" whereas your photograph depicts a "dehors" which is projected to the outside. Whatever happens inside the boulangerie is incumbered by the empty tables which dominate the scene.

And compliments for your courage in casting a "cultural" bait in the dark waters of this forum: you never know what will be at the end of the line when you retrieve!

Regards, Vittorio