We forget who we are. We forget where we were going. We forget that we were looking at a photograph. We forget if ducks live in the air or in the water. We forget if water is blue or green. We forget that we can't see air. It's a pleasant sort of forgetting, like stepping off a porch into a rubber tambourine, wondering why rain goes up. Sometimes we don't want to drink the green tea, we want to swim in the green tea. Blur helps us do that.
This, for me, is one of those dreams that morphs into a nightmare, and this is the point of morphing. It's been pleasant until now, if not a little disjointed, with abrupt changes in place and lack of a true linear narrative, and then suddenly - BAM! Time to wake up . . .
Quite beautiful. There's little to critique for me because I can find little that doesn't strike me about this as right on. I love the bit of dirt near the top of the frame, and the dizzy motion is really great. I guess I'll break from everyone else and wonder what it would have looked like without the cross-processed feel, perhaps in a deep contrast black and white... but this is really lovely.
Great shot, full of rushing, there seems to be movement in so many planes here, almost in defiance of geometry, I could see this huge on a billboard, but I find the title distracting, i don't like to be led that much, this one cries out for 'untitled'.
Great title as well, Lesley :-) I'm not sure "ugly" is the word we want, but "determinedly non-aesthetic" would work :-) There's story-telling at work here, and that's why this works.
Don't go into the light! :D The suggestion of motion here and the light rays effect give this shot a sense of momentousness that wouldn't be there if it were a pin-sharp stopped-motion capture.
Methinks you're channeling xion in this one. Now if you're gonna play your own game, you gotta add info! Lensbaby - OK. Now beyond that - settings? Post? (I suspect cross processing, yes?) Has a glorious sense of being on the fringes of freedom.
:) :) :) let me just say that that greenish color is my most favorite color in the whole world. i love this shot to no end. and i have this little feeling that my "favorite photos" list is gonna grow endlessly in this unsharp august. :)
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