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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.
Looking back during the steep climb up to Chartridge, taken on my recent walk around the ridges ti the west of Chesham
I've moved to a new place and this is my view. It's awesome. Lots of parks and streams. Photo texturized.
Walking in Talsarnau, Gwynedd, North Wales.............
Talsarnau is a small village near Harlech and Ynys.
Views from Higher Tor, near Belstone. From a recent winter walk that offered all 4 seasons in a few hours!
Eagles Eye View Town of Chimney Rock it sits at the base of Chimney Rock Park, small tourist area with lots of souvenir shops a few places to eat and a very busy ice cream shop, this is about 2-2500 ft up looking down, found in North Carolina.
Großer Feldberg is the highest peak close to Frankfurt in the Taunus mountains. Though one to ride up by bike but the view from there compensates for all the effort.
Not too far from Chittagong Airport is a nice waterfront strip along the banks of the Karnaphuli River. There were boats and ships moored everywhere but this was one of the few days where the sun didn't shine and it was overcast and very hazy but there was enough colour to lift the mood a little.
Photo By Steve Bromley.
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.
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.
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.
Views from Pont Briwet
Pont Briwet refers to the road and railway bridges that cross the River Dwyryd, near Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd in North Wales. The first bridge was a Victorian road and railway viaduct that was constructed entirely from timber by the Cambrian Railways company.
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
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.
…… 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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