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Pierced Nipple


cris benton

This photograph and most of the others I have posted on Photo.net are taken from kite-lofted cameras. A kite, unseen in the image, supports a small, radio-controlled cradle that holds a the camera. I can position the camera by walking around and/or letting out or retrieving kiteline. I aim the camera and fire its shuttler using the radio while I stay at the ground end of the kiteline. The camera can rotate through the compass, tilt from horizon to nadir, and change from portrait to landscape format.

I compose my images by watching the camera and imagining what it would see. The whole process entertains me to no end.

Details are available at http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap


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This is an image from a series shot at Briones Regional Park and

offers a plan view of a hillside pasture. The hill slopes

approximately 30 feet from upper left to lower right. While the

larger track, a maintainance road, follows the hill's contour the

cow's paths depart from their normal contouring and lead more

directly to a water trough in the lower right.

 

My wife immediately read this image as a woman's breast in profile.

Should I change the category to nude?

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As far as I'm concerned, your images always give us a point of view that no one of us necessarily have a chance to see everyday, unless you're a pilot who likes to fly really low.

 

This is another unusual "hideout" and the cow-paths provided interesting "scars" on the land. I searched high and low looking for cows but I can't really find one in the image: It would have made it a "fuller" image. No pun intended and I'm not going along with the "breast" concept.

 

Curiously, I see a volcano erupting instead of a breast. That's the beauty with abstract art --- its interpretation is so fluid :-)

 

Thanks for sharing your world with us!

PS: BTW, what is the estimated height of your kite when taking this picture?

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Thanks for the comments Arthur. You are right in that no cows are visible, just their traces. I would estimate the camera height at around 150 feet. The kite is about 100 feet above that.

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It kind of reminds me of Alvin Coburn's image called "The Octopus" taken in New York, however this abstraction is unique and interesting in its own respect. "KAP" seems like it takes a lot of trial and error, but it looks like it works well for you. Keep up the interesting work, look forward to seeing more!
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