Hi, Peter. I commend your effort. I think your first image starts getting somewhere that the other two do not. You create a relationship between the sign, which grabs our attention first, and the out-of-focus slide.The fact that the sign obscures the duck's face adds to the impression, and the alignment of the foreground tape, duck, slide and dark vertical tree draws the elements together. If you are familiar with W. Eugene Smith's Minimata photographs, you may recall the one of the fish wrapped in newspaper in the foreground with an out-of-focus home in the background. It works as a metaphor for the entire theme of the essay. Your first image starts to get at that. Shaping the composition during enlargement can bring the idea forward more clearly.
The other two do not show that potential to me; to my eye, the compositions (more the second than the third) are searching for a unifying idea.
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