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Thanks to the persistant pioneering of the Frisian-Groninger farmers and monks the current dyke construction ensures that the low hinterland can no longer flood by the sea.
But nevertheless, the sea can still be furious in this area.
Pay attention to the water level of the sea and the level of the hinterland, which is clearly below sea level at high tide!!
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In the center with the gray body and brown head is a Pink-footed Goose hanging with a flock of Canada Geese. The Pink-footed Goose is far from home. It breeds in eastern Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard. It is migratory, wintering in northwest Europe, especially Ireland, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and western Denmark. Found in Bucks County PA. The pic was taken really far away and late in the day with bad light.
The question stands; why would this picture be different from a Real Estate advertisement?
Both would show a structure in an uncritical manner. The difference being -- a Real estate 'document' photo has an intent of use while a 'documentary' style New Topographics photo is a useless image. This is not semantics, but a purpose of use by the photographer at the time of making the image.
reference; Szarkowski.
Plus, "In a NT picture one cannot understand the structure without understanding the landscape and conversely."
Addendum: it is difficult for me to comprehend and subsequently digest the idea of ‘useless’ pictures being worthy of inclusion into the New Topographics genre. But I acquiesce to photography historians who are well adept in this field.
The image captures a realistic scene, but its intense blue-gray tones and hazy effect deviate from its objective documentary nature, creating a surreal or poetic atmosphere.
The solitary figure and desolate scene in the photograph create a strong subjective mood, leaving the viewer with a sense of mystery, loneliness, or provocation, echoing the emphasis on personalization and irrationality in "anti-photos."
This atmosphere is achieved through the use of color, light, and composition, elevating the photograph beyond simple documentary function to become a work of art with powerful emotional and conceptual expression.
Photographed by Liu Wanching in Inner Mongolia, China, 2013🌸
影像捕捉了現實場景，但強烈的藍灰色調和朦朧效果使其偏離了客觀紀實的本質，創造出一種超現實或詩意的氛圍。
照片中的孤獨人影和荒涼場景，營造出一種強烈的主觀情緒，讓觀者感受到一種神秘、孤獨或挑釁的感覺，這與「反照片」中強調個人化和非理性的表達方式相呼應。
這種氛圍的營造是透過色彩、光線和構圖等手法實現的，這些手法讓照片超越了單純的紀錄功能，成為一種具有強烈情感和觀念表達的藝術作品。
劉浣青2013年攝於中國內蒙
Documentary style vs. Document photo. Because it is a 'useless' image it falls into the 'documentary style' category of photography.
I present this picture to regain favor in the New Topographics community. Especially after the expressive subjectivity "stagecraft" of my previous two photos.
Ordinarily I'd clone out those power lines in a heartbeat, but studying this composition, I realised they were essential to a story. If trees could think, both in life and in death, would each 'tree' seen here be envious of each other? One, grown strong and mighty, cut to have use carrying electricity, but denied it's old age; the other, wild and free, yet cruelly misshaped by weather and environment, with no future. other than an ignominious death? (I can hear someone out there saying, "Shut up, Fergal...it's just an ugly tree and a power pole. Get a life.") Seen at Aghinish, Co. Mayo, Ireland.
Green and red, the county's colours, displayed on a damaged barn. A good metaphor; we're all a bit beaten up, but still standing. Seen near Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo.
Amsterdam's huge cruise ship port provides a dramatic setting for a lone individual crossing a light-filled space.
I took a trip to Haughmond Abbey but unfortunately, a really hazy day and harsh light. Still worth a visit and I'll go back another time with better photography weather.
"Remains of Haughmond Abbey
Haughmond Abbey (locally /ˈhoʊmənd/ HOH-mənd) is a ruined, medieval, Augustinian monastery a few miles from Shrewsbury, England. It was probably founded in the early 12th century and was closely associated with the FitzAlan family, who became Earls of Arundel, and some of their wealthier vassals and allies.
It was a substantial, successful and wealthy house for most of its four centuries, although evidence of abuses appeared before its dissolution in 1539. The buildings fell into disrepair and the church was largely destroyed, although the remains of some of the domestic buildings remain impressive. The site is now in the care of English Heritage and is open to the public during the summer."
A young man inspects the engine of a finely-restored MG from the late 1950s, lacking only the correct factory-style steering wheel to be perfect in my eyes! Seen in Galway Ireland at the annual classic car meet.
Russians losing their war in Ukraine and losing badly. Nuclear terrorism did not work out for them at Chornobyl and they want to play the same game at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is much bigger than Chornobyl. It is so unfortunate that we have to share out the beautiful planet with such idiots...
There’s been times over the past few years when I have had a photo I simply HAD to get and when the opportunity to shoot it came along I took it with both hands.
This is one of them.
Many years ago I watched a documentary on traditional cormorant fishing in the Li River of China and thought “wow – what a window into the past that is” and decided that if ever the opportunity came along I WOULD photograph a traditional cormorant fisherman.
Myself and 20 others from the University of Sydney are spending a few months working in China for a subject in International Strategy,
So I started the research, and I researched more, and more. It was NOT going to be easy.
Eventually I stumbled upon Jack from Yangshuo – Jack is a terrific English speaking tour guide in the Guilin area and once I explained what it was I wanted to do he was able to help me make it happen.
So I arrived in Guilin late at night, raining and extremely hot after almost 24hours of travelling from Sydney. My driver was waiting for me at the airport and drove me to the XingPing area where we would meet the fisherman the next morning.
4am came and Jack and I were on a Bamboo raft going downstream on the Li river, incredible karst peaks all around me were slowly showing their silhouettes against the night sky.
Jack asks “where is your tripod?”
Leading up to this shot I had been thinking how I would go about shooting it – how would I make sure, in a small amount of time, that I could nail this once in a lifetime opportunity. My flaw when it comes to photography is that I often give myself too many options and I waste time experimenting so I decided I would eliminate the variables and focus on the shot. I took with me a light stand, a small Profoto RFi 1 ,3x2” softbox, 1 speed light, 2 pocket wizards, 1 camera and 1 lens.
Should I have bought my tripod? It was very dark – now I was worried.
We got to our location on the river bank and everything started to happen pretty quickly – before I knew it, in front of me, in this amazing wilderness was a traditional cormorant fisherman. Luckily my plan worked and I didn’t need a tripod. The morning light was illuminating the sky exactly as I had planned for and the softbox was throwing out the beautiful fill light just as intended. I reeled off shot after shot after shot and than it was over.
This is a single frame taken just after sunrise.
I’m sitting in my hotel room in Beijing and just going through my bag of shots from the past 2 weeks of trekking through rural China. From fisherman to remote villages to the Great Wall – it’s been an incredible journey and one I won’t forget in a long time.
I’ll be meeting up with the rest of the crew in Shanghai tomorrow and won’t have a chance to post many more shots until I arrive back in Australia but stay tuned. –there’s a lot to come ;)
Russians losing their war in Ukraine and losing badly. Nuclear terrorism did not work out for them at Chornobyl and they want to play the same game at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is much bigger than Chornobyl. It is so unfortunate that we have to share out the beautiful planet with such idiots...