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Sign: Share the Road—the eerily empty road
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Pandemic shot there!
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yllow wrote: March 17th, 2023, 10:48 am Pandemic shot there!
You notice the small details.
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blocho wrote: March 17th, 2023, 3:26 pm
yllow wrote: March 17th, 2023, 10:48 am Pandemic shot there!
You notice the small details.
Speaking of which, the guy above is looking right back at you
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blocho wrote: March 17th, 2023, 3:29 pm Washington, D.C., November 2022

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Wow, I adore this! Lately I've been really taken with shots that hint at a beautiful but mostly obscured wider world, this is an excellent example. Love the lighting too, I feel like most monument photos have lower exposure and higher contrast, this makes the Jefferson(?) monument vibe less imposing and more friendly and inviting.
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prodigalgodson wrote: March 19th, 2023, 2:11 am Wow, I adore this! Lately I've been really taken with shots that hint at a beautiful but mostly obscured wider world, this is an excellent example. Love the lighting too, I feel like most monument photos have lower exposure and higher contrast, this makes the Jefferson(?) monument vibe less imposing and more friendly and inviting.
You are correct. That's the Jefferson (and thank you for your kind words). The architecture is kind of perfect for the effect you describe. Especially how the columns narrow as they rise, which accentuates the little slivers of background. I was focused on capturing the interplay between light and marble. That guy wandering into the middle of the shot and glancing at me at the right moment was pure happenstance.
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blocho wrote: January 1st, 2023, 7:06 pm Manhattan, July 2021

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Yes this is maybe the simplest of all photos over the last two pages, but I love it, I'm a simple guy maybe.
Could swear to have seen this as a CD cover somewhere ..

Other favorite: said pillars, department of health (after it was pointed out how interesting the scenery actually is - I liked to take those on my own, way back, earlier)
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Torgo wrote: March 19th, 2023, 3:46 am Yes this is maybe the simplest of all photos over the last two pages, but I love it, I'm a simple guy maybe.
Could swear to have seen this as a CD cover somewhere ..
Very kind of you to say so. That one is also my mother's favorite from my work.
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Torgo wrote: March 19th, 2023, 3:46 am Could swear to have seen this as a CD cover somewhere ..
Modern Vampires of the City vibes?
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blocho wrote: March 20th, 2023, 12:34 am Nye County, Nevada, March 2022

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Oh yeah, this scratches the itch. Kind of an analogous effect to the pillars with that sunlit strip between the shadow and the sky.

It's wild how similar so much of the Mojave looks, would've believed it was any number of stretches of highway between Lancaster and Death Valley.
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prodigalgodson wrote: March 21st, 2023, 4:26 am Oh yeah, this scratches the itch. Kind of an analogous effect to the pillars with that sunlit strip between the shadow and the sky.

It's wild how similar so much of the Mojave looks, would've believed it was any number of stretches of highway between Lancaster and Death Valley.
Thanks!

I've been trying lately to use clear lines to delineate different sections of color. Kind of a more geometric approach. The same dynamic is in this post from the previous page.
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Nice! It's a very aesthetically satisfying effect
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prodigalgodson wrote: March 21st, 2023, 4:22 am
Torgo wrote: March 19th, 2023, 3:46 am Could swear to have seen this as a CD cover somewhere ..
Modern Vampires of the City vibes?
Hehe, good guess, but no. I've gone through hundreds of releases from the sectors of ambient (or drone) and post-rock in my more experimental days, so it likely fits at least one album art from this region. It really has a Kranky vibe, hasn't it. And guess what?:

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Of course there's such a Loscil record!
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Storm brewing, how high were you to get that shot?
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blocho wrote: March 13th, 2023, 6:58 pm Downtown Brooklyn, January 2023

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...reminds me of the moon revealing itself from behind the clouds in American Werewolf in London. Beware the moon!
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yllow wrote: March 23rd, 2023, 9:24 am Storm brewing, how high were you to get that shot?
Nine hundred feet above the ground.
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