Stock Photography by Markus Merz (Photos Pictures Images ...): Find pictures on a playground / Bilder auf einem Spielplatz finden

Last sunday I was on a playground in Hamburg. It was freezing cold but the sun was shining. I found some interesting details.

Rope on a playground (mirrored) / Halteseil auf einem Spielplatz (gespiegelt), originally uploaded by Markus Merz.

[EN] Rope on a playground (mirrored)

Interesting after the mirroring ... that glare gets a totally different meaning in terms of picture composition

[DE] Halteseil auf einem Spielplatz (gespiegelt)

Interessant nach dem Spiegeln ist, dass der starke Reflex auf dem Metall eine ganz andere Bedeutung bekommt.

Flag pole on a playground / Flaggenmast auf einem Spielplatz, originally uploaded by Markus Merz.

Flag pole on a playground / Flaggenmast auf einem Spielplatz

A word about that sunlight spot ...

I did that on purpose to get the light and colour contrast (yellow, black, white). I have another picture without that spot ... that alternative is boring.
Because of the close-up frame many might get the spontanous illusion that this is a flat structure or a reproduction of a modern painting (which I wanted to achieve!) ... no it's a tube (a flag pole with a graffiti on a playground) ... by definition the (sun-) light has to be like that to make clear that it is a tube (standing outdoors in the sunlight :-)
The funny thing is that you start with the 'flat' illusion ... the longer you look at that picture the 'rounder' it gets.
It starts to tell that story of the people carving the pole and applying that graffiti ... that was the sense of that 'macro' view ... it's a feature photo ... not intended as a piece of art or as a reproduction of 'art'.
Yes, the mirrored version is 'better' ... meeting the expectations ... it's a new checkpoint before presenting/posting pictures. On the other hand it's a very heavy reality manipulation. (And I am not sure if we should try to meet the visual expectations.)

I prefer this original version!

Thanks again to the 100 Points group. All your comments helped me a lot to get a better/stronger interpretation of my own image :-)