On 7/22/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey gang.
>
> IR photo number three. This is the swing bridge. I was trying to do two
> things here. Get
> some decent
> light and not have people on it. One out of two ain't bad i suppose.<g>
>
> Anyway. I looked at this shot a few times and its starting to grow on me.
> Sort of looks
> like the
> final walk into oblivian.
>
> http://photobucket.com/albums/v408/divad_b/?action=view¤t=GFM_BRIDGE.jpg
>
> Anyway comments welcome,
>
Hmmm...
I see what you mean about the people. IR seems to make them too
bright, so they stand out too much maybe.
OTOH, repeated viewings bring sort of a surreality (is that a word?
it is now... <g>) to it. I get the feeling that these people are
somehow being drawn to the bridge, much as Richard Dreyfuss' character
in Close Encounters of the Third Kind was drawn to that Mesa to see
the UFOs. Or like the way Costner's character in Field of Dreams
~had~ to build that baseball field ("If you build it, they will
come...").
It's like they don't know ~why~ they have to go to the bridge, they just do.
I don't know why I get that feeling, but I know I wouldn't have gotten
it from a non-IR photo.
The rest of the stuff is pretty cool (no, very cool). Love the
composition and framing, and I ~love~ the way slope behind the bridge
just disappears into the mist. I think that's part of the
mysteriousness of the whole thing.
So, if you exhibit this, you've got to put up a sign to come back and
view it over and over, because it just gets better and better...
<LOL>
Geez, Dave, I really really like what you're doing with IR; some
really innovative and exciting stuff - way beyond the ordinary!
cheers,
frank
--
"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
