• Members 1722 posts
    Feb. 23, 2024, 2:26 a.m.

    Yes. Looking at the activity of the top deck I recalled the band on Titanic playing until the last moment. Many appear to have already abandoned ship.

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    Feb. 23, 2024, 3:22 a.m.

    Lou, the image I'm seeing is very pixelated. I suspect that what should make the image work is a lush carpet of differing textures. The pixelation is messing up the textures so it is difficult to discuss the picture. I have tried your advice enlarge and then download. It helped a little but not enough.

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    Feb. 23, 2024, 3:32 a.m.
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    Feb. 23, 2024, 2:30 p.m.

    H2 Kodak VPH. I wish I could get more rolls of this stuff. I can only imagine how nice it looks not 20+ years expired.
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    kodakvph_001.jpg

    JPG, 3.5 MB, uploaded by OpenCube on Feb. 23, 2024.

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    Feb. 24, 2024, 2:17 a.m.

    This looks like an art installation and it looks like the little girl has felt the demand of the music and joined the dance, even though the masked and painted dancers' appearance could be somewhat scary to a child. My personal favorite: the cat t shirt dancer.

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    Feb. 24, 2024, 2:20 a.m.

    Pretty wonderful extreme with that wide angle lens here. Everything is on the bend, which allows it all to point to the peak (if it is a real peak instead of one created by the lens). The winding road and snakes through the bottom part of the image towards the orange geometric structures is what pulls the whole thing together.

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    Feb. 24, 2024, 2:23 a.m.

    What a delightful dragon, a rather un-fierce one perhaps friendly like Pete's Dragon. A dragon made of plants would have to be less threatening than one made of scales and breathing fire. I'm not sure about scale but it looks huge. You chose a good angle. The nice sky makes a good backdrop for him.

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    Feb. 24, 2024, 2:25 a.m.

    Nice informal portrait of a performer in the act of performing. The red shirt makes it clear who we ought to be looking at just in case we missed the other hints (placement in frame, story, proximity to the camera). Well caught.

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    Feb. 24, 2024, 2:41 a.m.

    Love the foggy forest and it exudes silence. My preference is the same one Simple Joy picked, it really seems to convey the most mood of the three. So much fun to have a camera in a place like this! I think they would work well in monochrome, too.

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    Feb. 24, 2024, 2:44 a.m.

    This is one of your creepiest offerings to me, because I'm finding multiple faces and bodies distorted and embedded here. And some of them aren't quite human. Artistic and spooky.

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    Feb. 24, 2024, 2:53 a.m.

    Like it just fine, it's super clear, shot from an unusual angle, and you've got boat reflections shimmering in the glass of the building. The colors are muted and the light looks subdued, so the things Simple Joy suggested may help you make more of it. I was on that boat not long ago, and it never occurred to me to that the boat itself could be an interesting shot from above.

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    Feb. 24, 2024, 2:56 a.m.

    How cool! Wire? You've created a somewhat surreal valentine that has floated up from a graph of some kind and taken on airborne shape. I'm never sure how much of yours is camera based sleight-of-hand. You are a master of visual mystery.

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    Feb. 24, 2024, 3 a.m.

    Rich colors like this remind me of some old color films - a veritable rainbow of colors. Lovely garden.

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    Feb. 24, 2024, 3:01 a.m.

    A graceful study of lines and curves, almost musical in feel. Monochrome would be a nice variation.

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    Feb. 24, 2024, 3:06 a.m.

    This is very clever and very good. The background bokeh is pleasing, and the midges are cooperatively spinning their little trails for you. I would never have thought up such as this. Good work!

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    Feb. 24, 2024, 3:10 a.m.

    I really like this one. Artistic but not as creepy.. The colors are nicely contrasting - yellows and oranges with the deep blues of the background. Nice subject placement.

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    Feb. 24, 2024, 3:13 a.m.

    The people do have an impression of movement, some fairly rapidly. The primary colors of their clothing helps with our perception as well. The dragon, however, remains stable and stoic, and by virtue of that he remains sharp. The world moves on around him, literally and figuratively. Nice image.

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    Feb. 24, 2024, 3:20 a.m.

    Awesome tractor. Wonderful rendition.

    If it were mine I'd have to make some variations with detail filters.