Sinking...

Thanks for your thoughts.

Thanks,

A wonderful idea and capture!...Ciaomau!

thank you too, I am tired of talking about pictures today after so many I just want to say that you are far more important to me than the images, I have seen so many images and in some we can find the photograph mind inside and those are the most powerful and interesting, Thank you again .

Very clever and creative idea!

Just heading out the door and this one stopped me. Had to leave a comment even if it makes me a little late. This is an enigmatic picture that I look at again and again without really understanding what's going on. But the composition and the dramatic elements certainly hold my attention and that is one helluva other-worldly blue!

An original idea! I like it. Ciao.

wow! i think Jack hit on the right word "enigmatic". i think i know what the physical reality is here, but even knowing, this is so surreal.

To all of you .

 

I know it is enigmatic,but if we look at a wider perspective.....

 

 

Jack and Linda, for me it is a very symbolic situation,( even though not a direct analogy,) hard to explain ,but there are times when rapid sinking life are very dramatic, and our hand is short in helping people we love....

 

 

A most interesting crop that grabs one's attention immediately. Agree with Jack. There is a mystic feel to this one that one can't help to explore the story behind it.

My word, this really does feel like it is underwater. I guess it is the way you have captured the posture of the legs and the arm reaching into the blue. I am actually surprised that it is this effective. From the thumbnail, I really thought this was underwater in a swimming pool and only realised the floor was a floor upon seeing it larger.

 

Jack is correct here, there is something enigmatic about this. Even ignoring the underwater, above water dynamic, I am still perplexed. Does the arm belong to same person as the leg? If so it simply "feels" like the person is too big. How can arm and leg appear in the frame and nothing else? And, further, if the arm is not from the same person then were is it coming from.

 

The tiny bit of fabric hanging into the top right corner catches my eye a bit. I might be inclined to crop that little tiny bit out (or clone it out). I like the shadow on the leg though (for an unknown reason).

Pnina, very original and striking. Great as it is, but I've tried a crop including only the hand and the white object (paper?). In the crop the two hand shadows become more prominent and extremely effective.

Thanks for your interest in this mystery of composition..

 

Cherlyn Thanks I will explain a bit the mystery....

 

Ian, thanks for your interest and explaining your thought which lets me know that my angle and gut feeling were as I wanted it to be. Still , even it will reveal some of the mystery, I will explain the special circumstances it was taken , so you will not be perplexed.... ;-)) And understand how important is the angle and timing , which you are aware of (I know,) as being a photographer yourself....

 

It was taken in the visual theatre I work with. The part of body that you see on the upper R corner was an actor floating in the air! ...;-)) It is his hand and part of his lower body that was fascinating, the lights are theatre lights. As the whole scene was very unusual, I cropped the part that was very significant for me.The feeling of deep water,the sinking boat, and the angle of his hand, the lights and shadows, and I wanted the space. I don't remember what caused the L side shadow, but it has created an angle for the boat. (see also this one), In my mind it was getting a wider significance as I have explained in an upper comment

 

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7590031

 

 

You were right about the upper R corner, It disturbed me as well ,and I have cloned it and changed the photo, but it took a lot of time till the change happened ( the new way of PN...).

 

Roger, thanks as well, I think your suggestion is a another possibility for sure ,but it will be completely another composition.....;-)) It is very important to me, as it is though. Thanks for your thoughts, always interesting, and interested to know. !

 

 

Not only the fact that we have twoo different persons here, looking like one at first glance, but what personaly strikes me is the fact that the evocation of water ( as opposed to land ) is actually not happening in a vertical way ( even if it may seems that way on the photo ), buit really is an horizontal opposition : The land ( safe (?) ) place is in the background wehn the water / part in space where the sinking part of the image happens, is in the foreground, and that induces the fact that we, spectators, are already in the water, and much further than the opportunity of hope simbolised by the square of light, like this whole situation already happened to us, and we can only watch this in the process of happening to somebody else. But this also means that hope is still there : only we can't raccess this hope, but it may be possible that this hand that we see could reach for the light, and if it does, this one hand may well change this situation for us all ....

" but there are times when rapid sinking life are very dramatic, and our hand is short in helping people we love.... "

 

 

Even before I read your comment, the overwhelming feeling this image evoked for me was of something of great value slipping away just out of reach. This was before I connected up that the object on the floor was a paper boat. The blue here is very intense and does give the feeling of the sea.

 

An intriguing visual puzzle with a strong emotional pull.

Laurent, such a long absence,,,,;-))

 

"where have you been? went to England to see the queen...." ? a children song...)

 

Thanks for your interesting read ( evaluation) of that composition.What is so interesting in viewers thought and feelings, is the interpretation of a given work ,as is seen and experienced by others than myself. Sometimes it even widen my own way of thinking while composing it. ! and this is a very nice way of evaluating it !

 

Thanks Laurent, Hope all is well with you.

Thanks a lot for writing your feelings. this one was uploaded because of a strong hard experience I pass with a friend, that shows how fragil life can be.

I very much appreciate your expressed feelings and refering to my words.

Original, I love the colors.

 

Alberto

A mystery. A man in mid-collapse. A hand reaching from the sand, but colored like water. A note adrift in a sea of blue light. No answers. Only questions.

Yes, the "hand out of nowhere" crop makes it a psychedelic work.

The image reminded me of the Michelangelo's "Hand of God". Your artistic background,concepts and talent, transforms an ordinary sight into sublime image. The image has surrealistic overtone.

Dramatic and mysterious....artistic!....beautiful blue....Saludos.

Great play with details. Yes the title fits. BR Joerg

Alberto, thank you very much.

 

Jeff, there are so many moments that there are only question and no answers, This is one of them .

 

Daily, the hand "from nowhere" can have different kinds of significance....

 

Amal, "hand of God", interesting association of yours, you may be right that it was some association of mine , but not a conscious one....Thanks

 

Ektor, so glad to see you here, Thanks my friend

 

Jorg, glad you have connected to the photo and the title.

... very good idea and capture ...