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b. A mental view or outlook.
Sometimes you need to look at things a different way to see the bigger picture.
Story Bridge 2011.
I can't describe how much I love the combination of colors in this shot. It's all soothing : warm and cold at their best harmony.
Anemone to Crab
You proof yourself against the world
with carapace and spines;
your eyes, set in their pits of shell
are hard and lobed as spoons.
You choose a hollow in the rock
and when a wave comes over
you wedge inside the crevice with
a grip too fast to lever.
Thus you live encased in stone
when all around is whirled,
aloof, untouched, equipped to soon
take arms against the world:
all stratagems I shall eschew.
I’m naked, yet live more.
I’d rather blush and touch and sting
than live by shell and claw.
Poem by Giles Watson, 2013. Pictures taken at Fisherman’s Beach, Albany, Western Australia.
There are more images to illustrate this poem, but I will not be making them available on Flickr. The site has become so slow and cumbersome to use that I will only upload single images and poems from now on. It is pointless trying to share them in groups for the same reason. If any of my contacts would like to see more images, you can seek me out on Facebook if you send a covering message saying who you are. It is very depressing that Flickr has become less and less of a delight to use, especially from the perspective of one who used to take great pleasure from its potential as a text-and-image site. Now, the text is all but invisible to most users, and the whole site is so slow and difficult to use that I no longer have time for it. The "new experience" experiment is even more of a disaster: poetry, for example, is so cramped that it looks like prose. Flickr staff: you are not listening to a lot of your oldest and most faithful customers. Why?
To depict this room 2-point vertical perspective was used to partially open up, or unfurl, the space while keeping within the bounds of acceptable distortion. The two (primary) vanishing points are on a vertical line; if they are spaced too far apart any advantages of this perspective method are reduced.
The room's true verticals converge at the lower vanishing point; the horizontals that are directed away from the eye appear to approach infinity — which is the upper vanishing point. The room's horizontals (to the eye) are unaffected, and remain parallel.
In the absolute coordinate system of the room, the open door exists in its own rotated auxiliary co-ordinate system; in the perspective process the door also has two (secondary) vanishing points — which lie on a horizontal line (in the picture plane) that passes through the upper vanishing point of the room. The door's horizontals (at the top and bottom of it) converge at the auxiliary vanishing points on the Hz line through the upper absolute vanishing point. The verticals of the door behave exactly as those of the room – they converge to, or radiate about, the lower vanishing point.
The chair can be considered as being contained in a box-like orthogonal space; this box, which is turned to some arbitrary angle, has a (tertiary) pair of vanishing points that also lie on the Hz line through the upper vanishing point.
This vertical configuration of two vanishing points can give quite dramatic effects – for particular scenes where orthogonal objects have not been rotated about a vertical axis. Once any such rotation has occured (however small), as with the door or chair, then the auxiliary vanishing points flip to being on a horizontal line. Some of the pencil construction lines are intentionally left visible.
This sketch was done on one page of an A5 notebook — and the top and bottom (the primary pair) vanishing points are on the page. The picture has been cropped from the full page scan.
I have driven by these ruins many times on my way to Seven Springs. Today I decided to slow down and explore.
www.azcentral.com/travel/hiking/articles/2009/01/15/20090...
One of the great things about hiking in Arizona is the perspective it gives you.
Sooner or later you'll come across a few potsherds, a panel of weathered petroglyphs or even a stretch of low rock walls. When you do, you can't help but reflect upon the transient nature of so much human endeavor.
A thousand years ago, a network of Hohokam villages stretched across much of what is now southern Arizona. The Hohokam, ancestors of today's Pima Indians, grew corn, beans and squash, and they harvested what they could from native plants such as mesquite and prickly pear. They hunted small game, traded goods with their neighbors and designed and built an elaborate system of canals, which later became the basis of the modern Valley.
The remnants of one of their villages stand on a hilltop nearly 10 miles east of Cave Creek. The Sears-Kay Ruin, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, takes its name from J.M. Sears, who founded the Sears-Kay Ranch in the area in 1887. Archaeologists say the 40-room site once provided shelter for 100 people or so.
The ruins stand about halfway around a loop, overlooking the usually dry bed of Camp Creek. Signs throughout the ruins relate the history of the site, which was occupied from about 1050 to 1200. Most rooms - now just rows of rough rock walls a foot or two high - were built around open courtyards that were used for daily activities.
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I really hate perspective distortion. I cannot justify the price of a tilt and shift lens to stop it, considering the few building shots that I take.
If I adjust it in Photoshop to straighten it up, I lose height.
Leaning Challenge
Not something I usually do, but of always loved some of the angles by the river Wear in Durham. There's a million and one shots to be had!
