Thank you breakthedummy and Soph. This image is of the cable car intersection where two cable tracks intersect and the cable cars must 'Let Go' of the cable before crossing. If one of them does not 'Let Go,' there will be a very abrupt stop for all involved! This image is another attempt at my recreation of one of Frederic Larson's images from Mystical San Francisco. You can view some of his photographs from the book here:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/store/buybooks/mysticalsf

Thanks again!

Here is his actual photo
http://pictopia.com/perl/gal?gallery_id=3122&process=gallery&provider_id=6&ptp_photo_id=sfgate%3A159281&sequencenum=&page=

Thank you for the explainations, I really didn't imagine where it could be written (and sorry for my english!)

Yeah thanks pursang..its nice to know where the pictures come from!

oh..... that. : )

Oh Mark, you finally got me. I would not have ever thought that this was yours. :-)

As for the balance I am not sure if the dark metal shouldn't have been perfectly centered but I guess it would be a trade off for the words.

Yeah, the balance is off as I viewed Mr. Larson's image it's SO MUCH better, but that's why he's a pro and I'm a novice. It does tickle me though the you didn't know this was one of mine. No shallow dof, no simple composition, no black and white. Still life is not my thing for sure!

Let's see if King figures it out.