You’ll find no people in these photos, yet each reflects the presence (the hand) of someone who was there, and left something of themselves behind.
Most of my photos have included people. I’ve spent hours, camera in hand, hoping for the fortuitous entry of a human being to “enhance” a scene. Occasionally, not often, I’ve shot a people-less picture. I’ve done some conventional landscapes; not many. A geometrically precise vineyard stretching to the horizon is an obvious, often beautiful, show of the “hand of man,” but here I’m looking for something smaller, more the size of a theatrical stage, something like a suburban backyard.
I’ve selected a handful of un-peopled pictures that appeal to me (I’ve found few). Each picture is accompanied by a table of factors affecting my reaction (a red bar from 0.0 to 1.0, depicts the factor’s impact). I realize this is a conversation with myself about photographs. But I seldom meet anyone who has views on this topic.

STAGECRAFT delineates visual effectiveness.

VOICE delineates an idiosyncratic, individual quality conveyed.

PITCH involves a display of quirkiness or peculiarity - for me the most effective and elusive quality in a photograph.

COHERENCE measures the combined effectiveness of the factors.