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Artwork by Popel Coumou
Who hasn't made a viewing box? If not, take an empty shoebox, cut out a window in front and cover the roof with transparent paper in any color you like. Now place elements in it - one slightly behind the other - and peep through the window. Lo and behold your own magical mystery world. An ideal Xmas-activity with (grand) children!
The perspective we see in a viewing box is real. Objects are lined up one after the other. But it feels very artificial because we understand that the brain fools us.
Photos (the flat print) fool us in another way. Seeing perspective is a trick of the brain. Our pattern recognization notices depth. We don't even think of clues like big forms in front and smaller ones in the back. Or even better, the converging lines to a vanishing point.
Popel Coumou (1978, Netherlands) combines all this tomfoolery. She uses an old-fashioned pair of scissors and colored paper to create an illusion of space on a flat surface. Sometimes she takes a photo of the result. Here she simply mounted the paper cutting in a lightbox, thus returning to the origin of 'photo-graphy' which means writing with light.
I've moved to a new place and this is my view. It's awesome. Lots of parks and streams. Photo texturized.
Looking back during the steep climb up to Chartridge, taken on my recent walk around the ridges ti the west of Chesham
After the rain I drove up to the top of Prefumo Canyon Road again, I knew it would be spectacular. And it was with all the clouds and light. Several cars stopped and we all oohed and awed at the stunning view. One couple was from Canada and the other was from Southern California. It was a great shared experience.
…… Another shot from yesterdays walk, this is looking back to Edgmond and the Wrekin rising above. Taken on my phone in Apple RAW and edited to B&W in Lightroom. Alan:-) HTMT ……..
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Canary Wharf seen from near Shadwell Basin. The Thames bends a lot and the towers are on the same side of the river as this viewing point.
I was still working when I suddenly noticed that we had a nice sunset for a change. So I grabbed the camera and took a few quick photos before the sun disappeared and the colours faded. This was one of the moment when I always wish I could see that sunset in a nicer place, at a lake or even better at the seaside. As this wasn't possible I can only offer the view from study, from the same window where the Dragon sat in the other photo I post today.
A bit hazy when I got to the top of the viewpoint. Pretty nice looking view though. I would later be walking over to the monkey hill on the left of picture by the coast
The Captain Henry Waterhouse Reserve.
View looking south across the harbour to the city.
Kirribilli, Sydney.
So I took the Metro from the Hills District to Chatswood, and then the main T1 train line to Milsons Point. After coffee at the Kirribilli Village Cafe I walked down to the harbour to catch the ferry from Milsons Point Wharf, but first taking a few photos from the forest in the Captain Henry Waterhouse Reserve. This forest is home to a colony of 'Tawny Frogmouth' native Australian birds.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software.
A Legacy 'Candy' filter from the Flickr Photo Editor.
On a drive out, took this view from the Roadside.
Not far from Garndolbenmaen, a village in the County of Gwynedd, North Wales.
The closest villages are Dolbenmaen and Brincir.
If you like 'architectural' views, go to Greenwich, London. Here, through one of the the front windows of Queen's House, and onto one of the domes of the Old Royal Naval College and then, across the Thames, to the business buildings of Canary Wharf. Just in front of Queen's House, an ice rink has been built - pure joy during the winter.
Views from Llandanwg Beach and marina area from the walk on the grass.
Views of Llanfair on the hill.
Llanfair is a village and community in the Ardudwy area of Gwynedd in Wales. It has a population of 474, reducing to 453 at the 2011 census. The village of Llanfair is situated to the east of the A496 coastal road between Llanbedr and Harlech, and includes Llandanwg and Pensarn.
Llandanwg Beach sits between the towns of Barmouth and Harlech on the southern side of Tremadog Bay. It is also part of the wider Snowdonia National Park and situated close to the pretty Afon Dwyryd estuary.
Classic sight of how New York would have looked 100 yrs, back. Ships of all sizes along lower Manhattan, with the Brooklyn bridge spanning the east river. Air quality at the time would have been obscuring the view of the bridge.
Wavertree was buil in Southampton, England in 1885 and was one of the last large sailing ships built of wrought iron. She was built for the Liverpool company R.W. Leyland & Company, and is named after the Wavertree district of that city.
Der Blick nach draußen (aus dem "Krokodilskopf") ...
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wünsche euch einen schönen Sonntag ...
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