You nailed it! Well done. Honestly I have worked for a long time at capturing a concrete mill and have never gotten it right. I'm jealous. Very, very cool!
"There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants." -Arnold Newman
You have made the image look old just by doing it in b/w. It strikes me that upper NY has all the landmarks indicative of a long ago industrial age that has now passed on.
You will be led to the knowledge of the internal things which are invisible to you, by the external things which you see before you. . . . Even so then, we can represent to ourselves in thought the Author of all that is, by contemplating and admiring the (visible) things which He has made, and ever brings into being.
- Hermes
I'd have to agree with Cindy, especially in the cities, but in the country...well, that's a whole different story!! Nice in the greyscale. It conveys what things really are, no punches pulled !!! :)
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web." Pablo Picasso