Hi Rick That's really a very effective composition and nicely executed.
The curve of the canal, the boat, the reflection in the glass wall of the building and the man looking at the crosses all combine to give the scene perfect balance and some poignancy. Excellent use of a fisheye! Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:30:16 -0700 (PDT), "Rick Womer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > In Berlin, near the Reichstag, stand two beautiful modern office > buildings, for the Bundestag (Parliament). > > As noted in a previous post, the building here stands in the former > "killing ground" of the Berlin Wall. The seven crosses in the left > foreground memorialize the seven young men who died trying to swim across > the canal to freedom, having scaled the Wall. > > As a "child of the 60's", I find the reunification of Germany, and the > creation of beauty at the site of brutality, to be wonderful things. > Herewith my meager photographic effort. > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7618249&size=lg > > K10D, DA 10-17 fisheye, ISO 100, f/8 at 1/500, RAW via LR. > > My earlier photo of the same site is here, but I like the new one better: > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7568895&size=lg > > Cheers, > > Rick > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Does exactly what it says on the tin -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
