A-mazed

Last time I passed through, my gate at the San Jose Airport featured this see-through ball-

drop maze. It works like a duck blind for people, if you're on the other side with a camera.

Catching interest by picturing interest. Fresh rendition!

and her expression is good - she's oblivious to you huh! Shame about the noise and the reflection but there wouldn't have been anything you could have done about that. So - any signs of Spring up North? We are getting all those lovely Autumn colours now - love Autumn!

Looks like one of those "Youth - The Hope For America's Future" photo stories, Life Magazine, circa 1947.

Daily, thanks! It felt like a "Eureka" moment to me, when I realized the possibilities here.

Amanda, yep, oblivious was the whole point. Dozens of people looked essentially at me through this thing, but none saw me, since they were all focused so close. Yeah, reflections. Behind me was a wall of windows. I was actually more bothered by lighted restaurant signs both to left and right, with big, bright splashes of red and yellow. Hence the square crop. Spring? Absolutely. Daffodils, daphnes and cherries on the downswing, azaleas popping, rhododendrons, hydrangeas and roses in the wings ... yes!

"... Lord, I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year; / My soul is all but out of me, — let fall / No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call." ~ from Edna St. Vincent Millay's God's World.

Jack, wow! Compare my stuff to photos from Life any time you like. You're right about the mood; thanks for the chuckle.

I like this Don, particularly the positioning of her eyes. And the device itself brought back some childhood memories for me: a friend and i used to design the most fantastically elabourate one-thing-leads-to-another machines.

I like this, too =)

Richard, thanks. Me too. You don't happen to have any pics of your one-thing-leads-to-another machines, do you? I keep hearing how one thing, y'know ... leads to another? But I've never seen the device involved. ;-)

Elina, thank you. Hope you get some sun soon. 8-)

I knew I was risking some low ratings when I put up a photo with an out of focus foreground, but really, short of buying faster film and putting up with grain, I was stuck; the DOF of the f/1.2 is almost nonexistent unless it's stopped down, and then, really, what's the point of the lens? I was able to use a consistent 1/60th of a second at f/1.4 (Why'd I even bother stopping down from 1.2 to 1.4? Slightly improved contrast.) indoors, on a rainy day, under moderately sucky fluorescent lights. 'Course, I found that focusing just past the main object filling the finder is, like, a focusing étude for the advanced student, and I'm barely intermediate.

Another fantastic piece with deep in thought of innovation, and clever to use the foreground & nice colors, to get a unique effect, Don!!! Best regards.

Great moment captured !!!! cheers Jana

:) No, unfortunately not. No one-thing-leads-to-another machine ever got beyond the design phase. Far too many of the cause-effect pairs were beyond the realm of physical possibility. The designs were more an exercise in imagination, and even the blueprints are unfortunately now lost. But i do remember that some of my favourite designs were of the one-thing-leads-to-two-another-things variety, which, when properly sequenced, could result in a giddy cacophony of one-thing-leads-to-further-stuff machines.

Stunning image. At first glance it's an abstract; then you realized it's not, or at least not exactly. Her expression is captivating, and the colors have tremendous impact. Much to explore here.

real real good stuff Don! You see, girls love technics, too...

Richard H., thank you! Really, more serendipity than innovation. I don't normally fly out of this terminal, and had never seen this before, but I was paying attention, and saw what this thing was from my perspective: a mostly transparent object that people would stop and look at (it really is fun to watch and try to guess the path of the next ball), facing my way, but not seeing me. Add a little planning (always travel with a fast lens), and voilà! I took a dozen or so shots, this was the best before my roll change, I'll probably put another up from the next roll, too. A compliment (& a very nice rating) from you always makes my day.

Jana, thanks, hello back, and cheers yourself. PT folks get an extra picture free. ;-)

Richard E., too bad, but then, Rube Goldberg's contraptions were mostly conceptual, too. Here's to giddy cacophony!

Chris, "stunning"? < me, blushing, looking at shoes > Thank you, and thanks for taking the time to get all that and to share; it's always interesting to learn how someone else sees one's work, especially someone with your eye.

Andrea, my dear doctor, I never doubted it. After all, I've become acquainted with you. ;-) Danke für Ihre freundlichen Wörter und freundlichere Bewertung.

Ryszard, thank you (if you see this) for your kind rating. Folks, if you haven't seen his fire on snow, you should check it out. My favorite photograph yet this year.

I'm being complimented on this shot by so many whom I admire, I'm going to feel pretty good for a while (hello, hubris!) Thanks, all.