"We're having a little tension in here today" - Escape from Spiderhead by George Saunders
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
"We're having a little tension in here today"
"We're having a little tension in here today" - Escape from Spiderhead by George Saunders
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I really like the straight sticks after yesterday's bent rebar. Is this a plantation of birch trees?
Martina - Is it okay for me to say that I want this photo?
Because.
I want this photo.
I want to know everything about it.
What a stunning image.
Carl, thanks for the new word "rebar". Dictionary said "armoring iron". No, it's all sorts of very small fruit trees attached to very large bamboo poles. I have tried to take a photo of this for many times. Last Sunday with the winter sun very low finally it worked.
thlofl, :-) Thanks.
too many managers and not enough workers in this factory farm :)
Well done Martina, perseverance has paid off with this shot, it's rather fabulous :o)
This one is great! Wonderful image!
What a startling image.
A lovely image :-)
donnie, factory farming is exactly what is happening around here in these days.
Paul, thank you very much!
ana, thanks! No more snow now!
Mary Ann, :-).
windy, thank you.
OK - Six things I love about this photo.
1 - the poles in the foregound are out of focus
2 - there are a million poles in this photo
3 - the snow is so uniform on the ridges
4 - the light is intense on one side of the poles
5 - somewhere this photo is in focus, somewhere in that million poles and without my glasses on I can't figure out where. And it is so disconcerting and wonderful at the same time.
6 - the poles in the foreground extend out of the frame and those in the background remain in it AND there is a horizon back there and the poles in the background pierce the horizon but not the frame and there is some sky back there too that seems a little iridescent.
7 - ok I lied - here is a seventh thing - I think if this photo were enlarged to the size of gallery wall (say 3 meters wide and 5 meters tall ((a big gallery))) people would try to walk right into it. It's as if the photo surrounds you in 3 dimensions.
thofl, thanks very much for this detailed explanation. This is a very interesting and new experience for me. I have another one in the portfolio and right now I am not sure if I made the right choice. What I don't like with this one is the dark rectanglar shape at the upper right side - trees.
Thanks again for this! :-)
thofl, I replaced the one in the portfolio. Horizon wasn't right. Thanks again :-)
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