Crystal City

fun with light . . .

Three cheers, back to the reflections! :-) You've really got such an outstanding eye for this type of shot. Love the hint of what looks like some warm morning/afternoon light... the intertwining layers of geometry and warped reality. Excellent shot as usual

Thank you Jeff.

 

Took my new D200 out for a test drive to a site I'd only seen from the highway. This was taken at about 3:00 and might be more dramatic if I had waited until 4:00 or 4:30. Maybe worth a return trip. . . .

It looks pretty good as it is Carl. Once again it is the sheer precision of the geometry that lets the image work well. This is a shot, though, that needs to be seen as part of a display of the larger body of work.

I called Glenview Mansion yesterday to ask if I could replace three prints with new ones, including this one. She was very gracious, even though it meant printing up some new labels and maybe editing the print list. The show gets hung tomorrow.

sunrise or sunset next time? the D200 rocks eh Carl?

I have mixed feelings with this one. Keep coming back and try to make my mind, but I still can.

 

On one hand, the composition is perfect. Lots of rythm (and how can't there be some in a reflection shot of yours) in the down-sloping diagonal which force the eye to go from left to right, byt the reflections modulate this apparently regular motion, making the eye surge up through the wiggly lines and then come down onto the wall sections.

 

I guess what I am missing here is some splash of colour. Something which would bring also into the tonal plane the dynamism, the rythm, which I have onto the compositional plane: maybe you should have gone back later.

 

I did not know you got a D200... what was the main reason? More MP for the prints?

My feeling is that the color is that color could very well compete with the complex patterns. I might like darker warmer light but only if the light patterns within those ares - like the small squares just left of center at the top - were not compromised.

 

It's curious but my eye often goes to the brightly lit window edge right in the middle. Not sure that's ideal.

 

I got the D200 - my first DSLR - because I have Nikon lenses and missed the ability to see details in the KM A2 viewfinder.

Really nice combination of straight and curved soft lines. Surreal outcome. Good eye.

What I like here Carl and saw it in other works of yours, is the pattern you find. Each rectangle has its inside form that can be seen as a little " photographic story "in itself, and I find myself observing each of them separatly, and nmany of them are very beautiful in form and color. It works very nice as a whole and I like the muted colors. I think that with more light in another hour it will be very different and new stories.

Thank you for your reference in the philosophy forum , first If I where you I change the subject to the "Liquefied city". nice idea but I have to ask another question in philosophy forum which is "how much we can rely on ratings in the critique forum as a good measure to judge photographs ?" as I see this photo it both in originality and aesthetic under five.

Crystal City is the actual name of the place.

 

. . and ratings are not reliable. For every image that deserves the high rates, there is another that doesn't.