Suspended

Regards!

Quite a puzzle! I can't figure out what these bags are for. The appear to be covered in snow. Sometimes I don't really want to know what an image is, but prefer to puzzle it out. In this case though, I really do want to know the story.

The intrigue, imho, is what makes this such an interesting image. Great b&w tones. Nice shot! ~~~~~~~L

It's my pleasure to join these ladies. You are certainly living in a winter wonderland with mysterious scenes. Thanks for serving us these puzzles.

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Thanks everyone for your interest.

 

Linda , since you asked, this is the side of a salt pile which sits at the town dock in my home town. The salt is shipped in during the fall and is trucked out during the winter to salt the roads. The entire pile is tarped with black poly tarps which are weighed down with numerous bags of sand to hold the tarp in place. I will attach a wider view of the salt pile, taken a few weeks back when it had no snow on the tarp.

Gordon, Thank you for the explanation and accompanying photo. Obviously we have no need to salt the roads here in Louisiana. I did grow up in Michigan however, and remember the trucks salting the roads, and the ugly piles of grimy ice that lasted weeks after the rest of the snow melted. At the time, I never gave any thought as to where the salt came from, or was stored.

At first look, I see small boats sailing across a frozen sea,of course it´s a personal interpretation too much far of the reality... I like very much this graphism and it composition.I´ts a clear example what from an ordinary element it´s possible bild a great image.My congrats

Living in a place of the world that don't really has a snow culture, when I first looked at it , it is funny, but I thought exactly as Mario. I looked at this composition as a bizarre and enigmatic, as I thought that it looks like a huge wavy sea with many small bouts sailing all over connected to each other.....it is you with a great photographic eye that are using the French expression: "Trompe l'oeil".....

 

Thanks for the explanation and the second example, I can only add that you have started the new year as a skilled magician....;-))

I'm completely lost here. I presume these are ships sailing off the end of the earth. I know you inhabit a different universe but this is ridiculous.

What an amazing image! To me it initially felt that I was looking at some abstract 'boat race' of sorts -- then suspended 'tea bags' came to mind right after that.... Really intriguing!

After reading your explanation and seeing your other photo, I can only congratulate you on creating this wonderfully original & unusual photo! With best wishes, Marjolein

Another reality-based abstract, this one taking on a very graphic quality. It's as if you've drawn this one with your camera. To me, this shows the power of creation. More than a "capture" by focusing and isolating a detail of a scene, you've rendered it meaningless in terms of the confines of everyday life and meaningful in terms of imagination and aesthetics. I particularly like the delicacy of the cords and the textural nuances of the tarps protecting the salt. The folds and shadows feel like a kind of morse code, a rhythm that adds a lot of dimension to a photograph.

Hola Gord.

 

Like Stockhausen's score ready to be played. Very nice, a wonderful encounter.

 

Abrazos.

Mario;

 

I find it interesting the number of people who first see this as boat.. I live in a harbour town and this salt pile is only 100 meters from the water and yet the boat analogy did not occur to me.

 

Pnina;

 

Maybe it is because I do come from the land of much snow that I missed the boat connection :-)

I saw Marjolein's tea bags instead.

 

 

Jack;

 

A different universe indeed, thanks for stopping by.

 

 

Marjolein;

 

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I too saw giant tea bags on strings. Part of the fun of snow is its ability to disguise and transform the commonplace into something a bit enigmatic.

 

 

Fred;

 

I did get some of that same sense of a drawing or pencil scetch from this. I think this has to do with the way in which the snow shades the transitions of gray aginst the black tarpaulin. I also share your feel of an underlying rhythm.

 

Hola Jose;

 

When I was looking at this scene trying to isolate a section that would feel balanced and harmonious I did find myself thinking about graphic scores in music. Not Stockhausen actually, although he was the grandfather of that concept with his 50s score based on a cocktail bar menu. A British composer Fred Frith did a series of large ensemble performances between 1986 and 1996 which were graphic score based on his own photographs. I was reminded of the graphic nature of some of those images.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone,_Brick,_Glass,_Wood,_Wire

"Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire, some of the best photographs you ever heard" Wow!!

I will put an ear on Fred Frith, sure. Thanks.

Years ago, before I had internet, I was working and programming "Music from Fractals" There is some of my work in http://globalia.net/janc/ it is for MSDOS and some for Windows 3.1.

My idea was to create music with the same algorithm and time while fractals were graphically generated. I present the work with:

You can hear the pictures and look to the music.

Fractals take us to new music landscapes where we can be sure nobody have been there before.

It was a very nice time, unfortunately I had a problem with my backups and I loosed all my code sources. I wish to come back to reprogram them ready for new computers.

Abrazos.