Wind Draperies

"Never seen that before..." that's what said a friend of mine who has

lived in Namibia for the last 20 years. "I know well the desert" he

added "but I have never come acroos such place... where is it?" and I

replied "It a very secret place and I am the only one to know it."

He was happy with my explanation... what about you?

Wow! that's stunning!

 

-Manuel-

Amazing terrain and light. Great!

The sand defies gravity, as if it's not real. Amazing place, and good light to shot it off. Thanks-a-plenty for sharing, even if not the latitude and longitude!!

Defys gravity? Although it is obvious to most, it is a bit dishonest to even imply that this is may be 'unmanipulated' photo. Physics cannot be defied in the physical world, only in Photoshop!

Well, Bruce, that's actually what I was implying. I just didn't want to be quite so blunt about it.

I did not say that the photo was unmanipulated. To say the opposite would have been too obvious...

to me its nothing short of a stunning image

nice work for sure!

Wow, no words... It's manipulated ????... Excellent work

Absolutely stunning place !!!. Beautiful shot - perfect light, sharpness, composition. Well done Paul.

Beautiful shot well done, Regina

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Good photo and Attractive subject but...unattractive light. I feel this subject could use little better light (unless the late evening/morning light is blocked by another structures). There also seems a lot of haze and bluishness in the atmosphere and especially to the upper left corners. A differrent composition could avoid such distractive elements. Thanx very much for sharing.

 

Regards .

Looks like a 3d rendering. There is no human scale.

 

Must be impressive in real.

 

Cheers

Beautiful subject, great composition ... however, must agree that I would prefer different lighting and some sense of scale.

This is amazing,truly amazing. It looks so surreal..great work

It almost doesn't look real! Is it? It's a beautiful scene and you can take your imagination places, but it's such a unique location that it almost seems unreal.

to me this image has just been reduced in size disabling the "constrain proportions" in photoshop and making it more vertical than horizontal... i think this is quite a simple modification that gave the image an original surreal look... if it is so, i'd say i rather like the final effect, expecially considering that the original shot - besides being nice - it wasnt perfect.... it's amazing how sometimes a simple change can produce intriguing and surprising effects.

The exaggerated vertical scale is indeed eye-catching, but the natural view is more appealing to my eyes--besides being truer to the actual formations. I find this degree of manipulation to be nothing short of revulsive. Sorry. . . .

 

--Lannie

Squeeze the width even more, and it will get an even higher originality rating, right ? I hate to be taken for a granted fool: what about you, guys ? :-)

I do find this sight really awesome !

 

(Too bad this sight wasn't the sight of a true site.) :-)

Congrats and keep up the good work. Would you mind disclosing what you did with the original image? I do want to believe that this place exists ;)

I've seen enough imagery of the Namib Desert to instantly recognize this shot as being from there, even though obviously this one was heavily PS'd for exaggerated scale. I don't mind an artist exploring a personal artistic vision through the digital manipulation of photography and therefore I have no problem with this...except that the unmanipulated images of these Namib dunes are actually more impressive than this Alpine version! Interesting idea though, so congrats on the POW.

It looks faded and lacks contrast to me. I myself feel manipulated and I had to look long and hard before I could validate my immediate intuition that I was being tricked. I think that defeats your purpose because then I looked for evidence of illusion rather than enjoy your creation. For me, the world is amazing enough without needing to be "improved." I look for truth in art and want you to enlarge my vision, open my eyes and heart. Digital manipulation make me think you settled for something less before you were able to find the real wonder of the universe.

For me, this has the fascination of a flea circus. P T Barnum would give this 7/7. Initially it appears amazing but upon careful inspection you find it is an illusion. Others will go off speaking excitedly about the miracle of the fleas walking along their little high wires and performing trapeze.

If Paul was giving a geography lecture at university it would have some meaning to question whether this scene was reality in Namibia and not only the virtual reality of a photo of Paul.

 

Being on Photonet, I would never expect anything else than the virtual thing. To believe something else is in my view a fight for the innocence of another age.

 

As a photo this is both highly aesthetic and very original � that is after all what we are looking for, if I have understood our common project here on Photonet right. Congratulations to Paul for this POW.