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Post by nikonbob on Oct 1, 2010 12:38:19 GMT -5
I took this because it reminded me of a ship labouring hard in stormy seas. It is of part of a pulp mill and the forest industry in our area has been sailing in stormy economic seas for the past few years. Most mills have been/are in receivership for the past year or so. It is a crop and conversion from colour. Bob
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Post by photax on Oct 1, 2010 13:44:55 GMT -5
Hi Bob ! What a coincidence ! I proposed the same theme also in B/W with a near sugar plant in the next weeks. I made a photo series of smoking factories years ago, but i lost it while moving to another town then. A brilliant picture ! I like it MIK
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Post by nikonbob on Oct 1, 2010 16:58:28 GMT -5
MIK
Thanks, that is about as meditative as I get with the photos I take. It is a real pity that you lost that series of photos in the move but at least you can still go out and try another similar series.
Bob
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Post by daveh on Oct 1, 2010 17:16:16 GMT -5
Bob,
The photo itself I like: the words make it mean more. If you hadn't added the explanation it would merely have been a good photo of smoke and sky. With the explanation it becomes alive, if only because of the death of the mills: their future going up in smoke, as it were
There is a nice alliteration too: sailing in stormy economic seas.
Dave.
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Post by olroy2044 on Oct 1, 2010 19:14:51 GMT -5
Terrific, Bob!
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Post by SidW on Oct 1, 2010 19:16:28 GMT -5
Almost 1950s style when they used orange or red filters to get really dramatic cloud effects
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Post by nikonbob on Oct 1, 2010 22:41:14 GMT -5
Dave
Thanks, I try not to get too artsy with the photos that I take but sometimes I get carried away with what might be a deeper meaning. If the shoe fits, wear it I suppose.
Roy
Thanks
SidW
I think you are right about the 1950's style and you are certainly right about the orange filter effect. When I did the colour conversion the filter was set to max effect and was well and truly into the upper orange band. I guess I am guilty, at least on a subconscious level, of trying to imitate the type images that I have found appealing in the past. I hope that makes sense.
Bob
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Post by daveh on Oct 2, 2010 3:18:31 GMT -5
Bob,
Yes, absolutely: deeper meanings are often given when there really isn't any. I know some photos (paintings and suchlike too) are planned in advance with a deeper meaning, but often that deeper meaning comes as an afterthought. It always seems to me that a photograph can be good on many different levels. Occasionally one will come along that reaches greatness as it satisfies each and every criterion. One of those criteria is that on looking again there is something else to see, even, or especially so, in what seems to be a simple photograph. This leads me on to another thing I like in this photo: the uncertainty as to what is smoke and what is cloud. They merge somewhere, but as Eric Morecombe said, "You can't see the join".
(Eric Morecombe and Ernie Wise formed a double act, much beloved of British TV audiences in the 60s, 70s and 80s.)
Dave.
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Post by mickeyobe on Oct 2, 2010 8:38:24 GMT -5
Wonderful photo, Bob.
I like the contrast between the nebulous but dramatic clouds and the solid black building.
I do not look for hidden messages in a photo. It either talks to me in plain language or it doesn't but either way I can enjoy a good picture.
Mickey
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Post by nikonbob on Oct 2, 2010 11:59:53 GMT -5
Mickey
Thanks, I agree with you entirely. A photo either appeals or it dose not any deeper meaning, if any, aside.
Bob
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Post by drako on Oct 8, 2010 18:47:51 GMT -5
Love this. The turbulence caught my eye first but then, on second blush, I notice the hole dead center in the frame. I see this as a promise of sorts, as if the hole is informing me that there is a another world not so far away, one we can actually see with our own eyes rather than simply relying on heresay to know it's there.
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Post by mickeyobe on Oct 8, 2010 22:02:27 GMT -5
Love this. The turbulence caught my eye first but then, on second blush, I notice the hole dead center in the frame. I see this as a promise of sorts, as if the hole is informing me that there is a another world not so far away, one we can actually see with our own eyes rather than simply relying on heresay to know it's there. Bob, Did all that really pass through your mind berfore you took your picture? I never noticed the hole until Johnny mentioned it. To my warped mind it says 'bagel'. And the white clouds remind me of cream cheese. Sorry, I can't see any lox in the photo. The black structure is obviously some of Starbucks' double espresso. I need a snack. Mickey
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Post by nikonbob on Oct 8, 2010 22:28:20 GMT -5
Love this. The turbulence caught my eye first but then, on second blush, I notice the hole dead center in the frame. I see this as a promise of sorts, as if the hole is informing me that there is a another world not so far away, one we can actually see with our own eyes rather than simply relying on heresay to know it's there. Bob, Did all that really pass through your mind berfore you took your picture? I never noticed the hole until Johnny mentioned it. To my warped mind it says 'bagel'. And the white clouds remind me of cream cheese. Sorry, I can't see any lox in the photo. I need a snack. Mickey I can definitely say I did not say any such thing. I merely said that it reminded me of a ship on a stormy sea and upon reflection that mirrored the state of the forest products industry in our region of Ontario, especially over the past several years. OTH anyone is free to interpret a photo any way they want and from that perspective that is the correct interpretation for them personally. I used to hate English Literature teachers trying to tell me what the correct interpretation/meaning of a book was. I used to think and still do that I can make up my own mind as to what meaning I take away from anything. I would not deny that to anyone else either. Just a complicated way of saying things are what you make of them. Like I said I try not to get too arsty fartys with hidden meanings in the photos I take but I did slip up this once. Now, I really wish you had not made the connection to bagels because I now have the munchies for toasted bagel with cream cheese and strawberry jam. A funny thing the power of suggestion is. Bob
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