"From thee have I been absent in the spring"

[pecunium]

I've been oddly remiss in dealing with photos. I still have a reasonable drive to take them, but I've been doing damn all for editing them. Which is a pity, because I have some nice stuff from the past four months or so.

So, as I get back into some sort of workflow on those, I thought I'd go for something a little different from my usual string of, "Birds, bugs, and buds".

Fort Point


I took this when I was out for the conference on torture. I actually had to play with it more than I wanted to, because there were some spots in the wires of the bridge and a distracting bird low down, near the water, right by the fort. The spots, it turned out, were easy to dispose of, and the bird was trickier, but I got both, and you get this.

Comments

[onyxlynx]

Very nice.

[hal-obrien.livejournal.com]

So that's from... Alcatraz?

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Close. It's from the pier just west of the Maritime Museum. Alcatraz is about 1/2 mile NNW of where I took the shot.

[izzydesan.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just plain wow.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Of the two comments I've gotten about the content of the picture, both are very positive.

Oddly, I am ambivalent about it. It's an iconic shot, but icons are shot all the time. I suppose, for all it seems strange, my thoughts on this one are closer to, "anyone could have taken it," than anything else.

I don't hate it (the one's I hate I never show anyone), but it doesn't strike me as more than ordinary.

[izzydesan.livejournal.com]

I think what I like so much about it, more than the subject matter (I am not usually a fan of architectural photos) is the composition. Black and white is a format that I love, and the way the bridge, land mass and sky are hazy, and yet the water and sailboat are crystal clear just makes it very beautiful and interesting and gives it life.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Ok, I can see that.

Part of my curiosity is wondering what raises this photo from so many similar shots (there are only so many places to stand dryfoot and get such a shot).

I happen to like a bit of something active in my landscapes (often a flying bird), and the boat was intentionally chosen for some of that (the bird, well it was just there, and had the opposite effect).

In color, it stank.

I like black and white, and trying to get my mind into the B&W headspace, with a digital camera, is hard. Which amuses me, because when I had two cameras in the bag (one for color, one for B&W), I had no problem changing being in both frames of mind at once.