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Curved paths
Started January 15, 2009 @ 6:18pm by PunctumSaliens
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PunctumSaliens
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Flo
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| January 16, 2009 @ 8:01am | Roland, you've shown me just enough to start me asking questions! First thing I saw was the orange straight lines and angles! Which goes against the title you chose. So it was a tad of a visual shock - esp since the lines are orange and everything else is shades of whites, grays and blacks.
I also see lots of footprints in addition to car tracks. And the footprints look like the people have tried to walk around the curves of the tracks, rather than through/over them. Must have been cold, cold, cold - forming the ridges into ice which people would want to avoid.
And then, this seem like a curve in a road. Drivers proceeding for both directions have chosen to turn around right here, too, which i find puzzling - why did they choose this particular place to turn around?
And also, why were people walking there in an area where cars turn around? Doesn't seem safe to me. Unless those are footprints of the drivers, who turned in, got out and walked and then got back in and went back the way they came?
Is there an observation area here? And also, where were you when you made this image? You must have been on a mountainside on the next level of a switch-back road, or perhaps in a room in a tall building, shooting down.
If you were in a building, then perhaps it's an office building and you were looking down on a parking lot where drivers turn their cars around - or an apartment complex' parking lot.
Intriguing. Boy, thanks for the mental workout before breakfast!
Flo
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Wes
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| January 16, 2009 @ 10:04am | I am with Flo on this one, Roland. Where were you or the camera when you took this shot? Looks like a lot of people stopped here, turned the car around and returned from hence they came. What is up ahead that would cause this? Many questions.
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PunctumSaliens
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| January 17, 2009 @ 7:42am | Thanks, Flo and Wes. It pays off to stop on bridges and look straight down. Even in winter time.
Yes, Flo, you ask questions that did arise to me too when I saw this scene. The s-curve alone is nice, but the elements are so talkative without revealing their reasons to be there...
What really is my most beloved aspect of this shot is the footprints in the lower right corner. Did you notice the heart?
cheers
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Flo
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| January 17, 2009 @ 2:26pm | Oh yes! The heart is lying on its side partway up from the lower right corner! Thanks, no I hadn't noticed it, lol. Excellent.
Flo
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"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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PunctumSaliens
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April
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| January 21, 2009 @ 7:51pm | I've looked at this a number of times, and can finally articulate that what I especially enjoy -- along with the sense of movement and repetition -- is the number of contrasts:
* curves against the square, set dead center
* repetition above and below, left and right (but not a fabricated mirror)
* hidden and revealed (the central square)
* warm against cool (orange and gray)
* arcing right, against the diagonal left
Then I notice all those little footprints, and discover the heart -- elements that add an emotional quality beyond the graphic interest.
With all the effort that goes into learning to analyze and critique our own work and that of others, I'm also trying to reconcile the idea that when a subject captures our attention all that analysis drops into the background, and we simply have to trust our intuition, or subconscious training. Perhaps that's what Craig means by giving up control.
April (PPY)
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MCampbell
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| January 24, 2009 @ 4:07pm | I really love this especially the heart which drew my eye right away. It is like I am looking at what I know to be a very important story but in a foreign language with some universal words thrown in.
What a good eye you have, you never stop impressing me Roland.
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