Sometimes Nature Presents Good Compositions on a Silver Platter

Jun 02, 2008 10:27

You all know I'm a tree fetishist and a great lover of geometrical patterns. So you can imagine the shriek of delight I let out at the sight of this...


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toned b&w, skies, nature, trees, converted colour photos

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I can indeed! conan76 June 2 2008, 08:37:55 UTC
Nice work once again... :)

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Re: I can indeed! mistress_elaine June 2 2008, 08:52:07 UTC
Cheers. :-) Just wait till I get back to Australia and see all the gum trees. Frequent shrieks guaranteed!

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deepsan June 2 2008, 09:17:11 UTC
Beautiful image, it almost looks alien.

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mistress_elaine June 2 2008, 10:11:32 UTC
Thank you! I agree the scene looks rather alien in black and white. It looks a lot more natural in colour.

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ex_humanfema327 June 2 2008, 11:10:39 UTC
whoa, those are both beautiful

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mistress_elaine June 2 2008, 13:27:06 UTC
Thanks! I'm quite pleased with them myself. It was such a wonderfully photogenic day...

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soniclove June 2 2008, 14:15:22 UTC
do you have a flickr account?

i love your work :)

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mistress_elaine June 2 2008, 14:41:35 UTC
Why, thanks! That's lovely to hear. No, I don't have a Flickr account. I'm considering getting one, but I really think I shouldn't, as the last thing I need is another site to get addicted to. I spend far too much time on line already... Feel free to add me here, though. That way you won't miss out on a single photo. :-)

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taotianone June 2 2008, 15:57:05 UTC
these are both nice, although i think i like the horizontal framing best. the contrail seems more mysterious, disappearing over the horizon.

these shots make me remember an archaeologist friend of mine. when he gave public lectures he always began with the rhetorical question of how do archaeologists know where to dig? on the screen flashed a slide of a giant "X" in the sky above the excavation.

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mistress_elaine June 2 2008, 18:49:02 UTC
I think I prefer the vertical framing myself, but I like the horizontal one, too, for exactly the reason you supplied. Thanks for teaching me a new word, too -- I'd never heard 'contrail' before, but it's a useful word!

There were a lot of giant X-es in the sky that day, but I didn't find any treasures, unless you count the pictures I took. As far as I'm concerned, though, all of the Peak District is a national treasure. What a wonderful place.

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Contrail mitzimaybe June 3 2008, 14:51:34 UTC
Con is short for condensation, but I've never heard anyone say "ooh, look at that condensation trail", only "con trail".

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Re: Contrail mistress_elaine June 3 2008, 15:40:55 UTC
I've never heard anyone say either, but I've added the word to my mental dictionary. Thanks! I love learning new words, and I love remembering how I learned them. I'll remember how I learned this one. :-)

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