In the version larger than what I think ya'll can see, the water the bird swallowed with the fish is trailing beneath him in a little waterfall of its own. Bream are flat roundish fish and you can see its shape. The birds always swallow their catch whole, and it's sometimes an agonizing-looking process especially if the fish is large Glad you found the symbol!
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He is obviously enjoying a rest after the strenuous climb as well as the reward of the grand view over to Dover. I like the way the shadow of his legs and his toes point the towards it. The green shirt makes him blend into the scene and that suggests he is immersed in the experience. The presence of the bikes reminds us of the effort that was made to reach this moment of peace and, by reminding us of the exertions, makes the image seem all the more peaceful.
Pete
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Bricks is an unusual subject for a series of photos on Ancient Rome, which is a great start. I particularly like the first two photos.
1 for a display of some of the colours, textures and forms, which can be created with bricks, leading through to glimpses of the buildings themselves.
2 for the dramatic composition which emphasises the height, power and elegance of the brick-built buildings.
A well-built series.
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It's a pigeon, I believe.
No I haven't because I really can't explain it. I make an image with a camera and then just start monkeying around in Adobe Camera Raw with the file. Start with calibration first for fun sometime. These full spectrum modifications make for a more colorful starting point image and these colorful images owe something to that modification, or how awesome the GFX sensor is on long exposures and Hoya R72s. Sometimes I take an image into photoshop and do some extra, I play with the mask mroe than anything lately, but I don't go into PS much cause it takes more time.
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Many thanks! I did have a vague recollection of something IR-related.
I thought was a dove, but pigeons and doves are interchangeable IMO 😀
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A general response to Bricks.
The sculpture. I thought it deserved a prominent attention. It is in the walls behind and inside the museum of the Imperial Forum of Rome. Above Trajan's market. The Market is a huge, impressive brick construction itself. A fitting place for the sculpture but it gets overlooked. Apart from the notion of being a desrved tribute to the brickies of Rome, the other thing that I admired was the deliberate crack that runs through it. Cracks through brickworks in the old buildings of Italy had me gasping. Visually they offer plenty to photographers. They also raise structural questions that I'm sure Italians understand very well. Is there a Department in Italy that goes around assessing brick buildings and the cracks to ensure stability? If so, they must be a very busy Department. Or are Italians so at home with brick structures that they intuitively know these things?
Over time I'll be sharing pictures of cracks in walls, patterns of brick laying, walls built in impossible places, walls that seem to defy logic as they continue to stand and walls being repaired. These photos all came about thanks to the sculpture. -
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The Body Building
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OK, I give up. It's not Einstein's famous equation, so what are the quantities E, c and m in this sign and what is a body building?
I really like the wonderful lens distortion in the second shot. I like the B&W treatment, which I assume enhances the effect, although the color version might be interesting.
What kind of lens did you use in the second shot?
Rich
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Looks like a rectangular to polar conversion.
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If you apply the rectangular to polar transform to Mondrian's classic paintings, it makes them more fun. You can also modernise his primary colours by converting red to magenta and blue to cyan.
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I think some parts of this country would welcome a "polar conversion" right about now.
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Jim, it can be shot with any lens as the effect is achieved with a square crop and the polar processing. A rectangular crop creates a different vanishing point and effect.
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By rectangular, I meant Cartesian.
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Cartesian indeed as been used by Escher and Fibonacci.
