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.
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.
Bed with artichoke bushes
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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.
The photo was taken at the same huge sound a light show that I used last week.
mice.net.au/immersive-indigenous-art-experience-set-for-the-lume-at-mcec/
This is traditional Australian indigenous art on a huge scale. It needs the pumping sound here - a melding of traditional instruments and forms with electric rock.
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.
RUSTY STEEL & FISHEYE
In last week's thread, a few people commented on my use of the fisheye lens in the bridge photo (thanks!);
I confess to being slightly addicted to using fisheye lenses. They can provide a unique perspective.
Depending on how you use them, they can appear to be "just normal" ultra wideangle (just avoid straight verticals or horizontals or keep them in the center).
The late Bill "Boorstrap" Turner was a master of that technique (he used it mostly on the beach, keeping his horizon centered).But if you are feeling adventurous, a fisheye can also provide a distortion that can be made part of the composition (as in the bridge image last week, where the nearby distortion was used to create a curve echoing the natural curve above, in order to get a complete eye shape).
A few years ago, we visited the site of C Mine in Genk. This is a former coalmine, of which some of the main buildings are now converted to a cultural center. The elevator shafts are kept as a link to the heritage of the site. In front of the main entrance is a very large art installation made of rusted steel in the shape of a maze.
I went kinda overboard with my wide angle lenses in this unique location.
More examples here : **C Mine gallery**
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.
This dragon sculpture has been made with live plants.
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.
Music #2 -- Guitar
WhyNot
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.
Silence
I was passing by and noticed amazing site ...
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.
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.
I worked through the Placa De Espana image I have and tried to make something of them, but it seemed out of place to share here, so I shared them here. Let me know what you think of the edits.
That said, here is the image I want to share here. Please tell me if you like it or hate it and if you have the time, why and how I should have done it better!
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.
I've changed my mind and won't show any of the WA lens images as mentioned previously... Here' something else instead:
(some stupid title) by simple.joy, on Flickr
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.
Bed with artichoke bushes
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Rich colors like this remind me of some old color films - a veritable rainbow of colors. Lovely garden.
Rich
A graceful study of lines and curves, almost musical in feel. Monochrome would be a nice variation.
A natural abstract
Swarm of midges in afternoon light...
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!
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.
Dragon Power
In Baodingshan in Sichuan there is a small valley, where 900 years ago monks carved thousands of statues into the cliff showing various aspects of Buddhism for those who could not read, including this dragon guarding the entrance to a temple in a cave. There were plenty of tourists, who threatened to dominate the valley more than the statues, and I was keen to show the dragon as master of a thousand years, and the tourists as fleeting visitors. I tried to do this with a long exposure to blur the people, but leave the dtagon sharp-
Pete
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.
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.
Awesome tractor. Wonderful rendition.
If it were mine I'd have to make some variations with detail filters.