HALF THE PICTURE

There are some on PN that nearly always  bring a smile to my face... If this is  half of the nice picture....;-)) where is the other half disappeared? LOL

What is this element on the R? I hope you are well, I know your sense of humour is.

Thanks, Pnina. The other half of the picture vanished into thin air. ☺

I'm fine, thanks. In a week I shall be embarking on a one month road trip, which is the greatest fun that can be found at my age. I'll be posting as I go along.

Ah, the pleasures and treasures of the road trip. You keep coming on scenes like this one, sort of Cristo ala Dali. What a strange land; glad you're there to document it for us. I swear to God, Dave, if you can't produce an epic book out of these images, you're just not trying.

I'm thinking that the only thing that could be better than a road trip, would be a road trip with Jack McRitchie. Now that would be the mother of all road trips. From Japan to the American heartland and points west.

Can I join you? it will be a first class odyssey road voyage! Right now in 3 days I'm traveling to St, Petersburg  on a mission with some of my women Org. group.

Waiting your answer....;-))

I would be honored to show you my part of the middle kingdom. Who could ask for anything more than to travel all day with the brilliance of Jack and Pnina. Oh what a trip it would be.

It looks like you've taken the picture and pixelated it into a giant lollipop.  Cool colors.

I can tell that the landscape in the BG is a painting, because the hydro poles don't line up.

Strangely, somehow that blue cube-thing complements the rest.  What a find :-)  Cheers, Micheal

Wonderful image! You always take us to the best places. I LOVE road trips!!! Can I join the entourage?

Of course you can. I can see now that we shall have to get a van. I can just see it now as we pull out I'm going to put on Simon and Garfunkel song with the refrain, "We've all come looking for America." What a memorable trip it would be.

Thanks, right now a minivan will do. great to have Linda as well, we have to really think realizinhg it....;-))

This photo seems to show and tell. It shows an art installation and tells us that by including the sky, telephone pole, and a bit of car and house and also by including the foreground "abstract" sculpture. The colors of the two art pieces tie together nicely, their differences obvious. Interesting how much bluer and how much more artificial-looking is the sky of the mural vs. the real sky. I think you framed this well and included just what you wanted to establish what you saw.

I did not do any alterations of the colors or saturations. I did have a polarizer on the lens when I took it. I had considered cloning the pole and wires, but then decided it was much more appropriate to leave them in to distinguish the reality from the idealized in the mural.

Yes. I assumed that the difference in color and saturation between the "real" sky and the one in the mural was a function of the mural-painter's choices, not your having played with saturation levels. But it's a cool difference -- the mural's sky and the real sky -- to note. And it's also interesting to see how the blues of the mural and the blues of the modern sculpture are similarly artificial looking. Of further interest is the fact that many photographers make their skies look like the one in the painting rather than the real one.