float
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Comment by lei_73:
strange, sad, muted...love it!

float
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Comment by NiallOTuama:
have been looking at this image trying to understand it for a number of minutes. i see worlds and continents and i don't understand it, but it intrigues me. well done

float
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Comment by mariuca:
I don't know if you ever heard this beautiful French song but your image makes it play it for me in my head:

À la claire fontaine
M'en allant promener
J'ai trouvé l'eau si belle
Que je m'y suis baigné

Il y a longtemps que je t'aime
Jamais je ne t'oublierai .......

French traditional song
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float
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Comment by bob350:
Dream or nightmare or elements of both - the image evokes a sense of unreality in which core feelings and ideas anchor us more than subject and object in ordinary worlds. Element of flight, subtly light, contrast objectively and conceptually with the darker elements. High art. High score.

float
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Comment by insteps:
Beautiful photograph. Reminds me of the work in Minutes to Midnight by Trent Parke. Thanks

the 800 block
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Comment by NiallOTuama:
Wow! Great image.

Ambiguity
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Comment by mariuca:

Originally posted by ubique: Originally posted by posthumous: btw, the notes about equipment and gearheads brings up a point I've been thinking about. Why doesn't this apply to music? I saw a youtube video of someone playing clarinet, and barely able to hit the notes, certainly not to the right rhythm. It didn't strike me as "ambiguous" or "interesting," only painful to listen to. for some people on DPC, looking at a photograph must be equivalent to me listening to music... Interesting point Don. I suppose it's not quite the same thing though. The comparison is probably more like indie music versus mainstream popular music. Maybe you can take bad photographs (interesting, ambiguous, confounding) only if you're first good enough? Or at least a plausible faker, like me.

An excellent topic here. All started by Paul's "ambiguity". People get shy when confronted with a piece of music. They can almost never answer even to the simple question: "did you like it". They hide behind: I don't play an instrument, I am not a music connoisseur...
It has to do probably with the way music is made and played. While in front of any piece of pictorial art the responses are shameless. As if these instruments on which a visual art piece is made are perfectly known or mastered. The eye is easy on the brain. This applies to any visual things not only painting and photography (the two dimensional forms) but to sculpture, interior decoration, fashion, ceramicsâ€Â¦
Yes Paul, one can take "interesting, ambiguous, confounding photographs only if one is first good enough".

brothers
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Comment by dtremain:
Wow! I suppose 4x4 would be a bit on the crunchy side - difficult to chew. Do they pretty much keep to the other side of the river or come visiting occasionally?

brothers
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Comment by jagar:
Majestic to say the least.

Ambiguity
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Comment by herfotoman:
You want everybody to take the NOODUITGANG. Hehe.

Thanks for another middle-of-the-night awakener.

I'm going to phone you if I cannot get back to sleep..