I had the same feeling about the people. They don't seem to belong there. Makes me think about ants, wandering around, apparently with no purpose. But I think it is because of their rather strange positioning in the landscape, it is not logical to walk outside the track like they do.
Tim Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian.) Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds (Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy) -----Original Message----- From: frank theriault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23. juli 2005 14:09 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Paw: GFM Pic #11. IR #3.The final walk 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.j pg > > 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
