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...with this shiny Cyborg at Sulphur Mountain in Banff National Park, Rocky Mountains - Alberta / Canada. More...
Banff National Park is Canada's oldest national park, established in 1885, in the Canadian Rockies. The park, located 120 kilometres west of Calgary in the province of Alberta.
It encompasses mountainous terrain, with numerous glaciers and ice fields, dense coniferous forest, and alpine landscapes. The Icefields Parkway extends from Lake Louise, connecting to Jasper National Park in the north. Provincial forests and Yoho National Park are neighbours to the west, while Kootenay National Park is located to the south and Kananaskis Country to the southeast.
The main commercial centre of the park is the town of Banff, in the Bow River valley....as you can see on this shot....
(Better at big size)
Always I try not to place here the same photos that I upload to my Fotolog. I try they to be different, independent, those probably more experimental, more rapid, more "textual". That one is a more intimate diary than this. But in certain occasions, I do some photo that I like so much that it becomes me very difficult to choose in what flog to put it. This one has been one of these occasions, and I like this photo so much, that I have decided to repeat it in both sites.
It was this last Sunday. An absolutely pacific demonstration done by Spanish young people in different cities, to complain for the highest prices that the housing has in Spain nowadays. For the unstoppable corruption and the speculation that invade the real-estate world dominated by turbid business among banks and real estate agencies, and mortgages to be paid even by your future children, incredible prices, and precarious salaries.
With a lot of luck, and in spite of not being an official demonstration, the security forces did not intervene too much, and these almost 2.000 young people could walk calmly along the principal streets of Madrid: the Paseo de la Castellana and the Gran Via, collapsing the traffic, and stopping the whole traffic. A real event, which called the attention of the mass media and it was it what was mattering fundamentally. Though it is necessary to admit that there was no almost organization, the march was chaotic in occasions, and the general final image probably was of that it had a question as an infantile fit, a childish act. Maybe the politicians attend in certain way to these childish acts, some day. Though the money that moves all these business, will support more than one of a covered mouth, and more than one tied hand, in such a way that there are neither inspections nor new laws. A sorrow, the human ambition and greed…
The photo attracts me very much, because it looks like to me a kind of fresh painting, a mixture of hyperrealism (the light and the color have a touch to the painter Antonio Lopez, who in fact has realized hyperrealistic pictures on the Gran Via), with a collage. It is full of small details, the faces, the expressions, the clothes, the lights, the signs, the shades, the buildings, the semaphores, the police at background… If the look is extended a bit (it´s better seen at big size), new situations and things are discovered to every moment. The street, besides, is an emblematic street of Madrid. The small Broadway of Madrid, the street of the cinemas and the shops. And because of it, to see it paralyzed, his causeway invaded by so many people, it is one curious, unforgettable sight, almost of a movie.
[Photo taken at 5/16/2006, during a demonstration for the Worthy Housing for the young people. Manipulations of light and color, with Photoshop]
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(Más detalles viendo la foto a un tamaño más grande)
Siempre intento no colocar aquí las mismas fotos que subo a mi Fotolog. Procuro que sean distintas, independientes, aquellas quizás más experimentales, más rápidas, más “textuales”. Aquel es un diario más íntimo que este. Pero en determinadas ocasiones, hago alguna foto que me gusta tanto que se me hace muy difícil elegir en qué flog ponerla. Esta ha sido una de esas ocasiones, y esta foto me gusta tanto, que he decidido repetirla en los dos sitios.
Es de este domingo pasado. Una manifestación absolutamente pacífica, hecha por jóvenes españoles en distintas ciudades, para quejarse por los elevadísimos precios que tiene la vivienda en España actualmente. Por la corrupción y la especulación imparables que invaden el mundo inmobiliario, dominado por negocios turbios entre bancos e inmobiliarias, hipotecas a pagar incluso por tus hijos, precios increíbles, y sueldos precarios.
Con mucha suerte, y a pesar de no ser una manifestación oficial, las fuerzas de seguridad no intervinieron demasiado, y estos casi 2.000 jóvenes pudieron caminar tranquilamente por las principales calles de Madrid: el Paseo de la Castellana y la Gran Vía, colapsando el tráfico, y parando toda la circulación. Un verdadero acontecimiento, que llamó la atención de los medios de comunicación y era eso lo que importaba fundamentalmente. Aunque hay que admitir que no hubo casi organización, la marcha fue caótica en ocasiones, y la imagen general final quizás fue de que se había tratado de una pataleta infantil, una chiquillada. Ojalá que los políticos atiendan en cierto modo a estas chiquilladas, algún día. Aunque el dinero que mueve todos estos negocios, mantendrá mas de una boca tapada, y más de una mano atada, de tal modo que no haya inspecciones ni nuevas leyes. Una pena, la ambición y la codicia humana…
La foto me atrae muchísimo, porque me parece una especie de fresco, una mezcla de hiperrealismo (la luz y el color tienen un toque al pintor Antonio López, que de hecho ha realizado cuadros hiperrealistas sobre la Gran Vía), con un collage. Está llena de pequeños detalles, las caras, las expresiones, las ropas, las luces, los letreros, las sombras, los edificios, los semáforos, la policía al fondo… Si se amplía un poco la mirada, se descubren nuevas situaciones y cosas a cada momento. La calle, además, es una calle emblemática de Madrid. El pequeño Broadway madrileño, la calle de los cines y las tiendas. Y por eso, verla paralizada, su calzada invadida por tanta gente, es un visión curiosa, inolvidable, casi de película.
[Foto tomada el 16/5/2006, durante una manifestación por la Vivienda Digna para los jóvenes. Manipulaciones de luz y color, con Photoshop]
Taken during the last half 2008
These are the photos that Wit called : Loveless.
You are right.
I choose to leave, and here's the end.
Today's Wit's birthday, nothing to be happy about,
just remind me these photos.
Esplanade Bridge, Singapore. Taken from the Merlion Park.
Too bad I was not there at 12:00, the ray of light would have been right in the middle!
HDR processed with 5 bracketed exposures, tone mapped with Photomatix.
Night version (non HDR) available here.
Created on Dreamwombo
PROMPT:
the dork monster in cryptid taxidermy in post apocalyptic wonderland, in heaven everything is fine by lady in the radiator and brothers quay, stopmotion cinema photograph by h.r. giger, by giuseppe arcimboldo, hieronymus bosch, art nouveau, intricately detailed, hyperrealism, fantasy, imperial colors; bogomils universe
Eakins Oval, Philadelphia
What with all the excitement about her premature fledge I didn't get to discuss the camera yet. The D500 is a beautifully made crop body. AF is very fast and dead on, and the viewfinder reveals a sort of hyperreality. The image quality is DX. Very good DX, but it's no D800/810. It's coming to Alaska with us so I'll have a better idea in a few weeks.
created in NIGHTCAFE - Stable Diffusion
the prompt included Giger, Arcimboldo, Wonderland, Taxidermy
I resurrected my Wonderland prompt with references to Brothers Quay and the Lady in the Radiator, and added as the lead 'Cryptid Taxidermy'. From the few tries so far, this makes for a very interesting trip into Surreal Weirdville.
PROMPT:
"Cryptid Taxidermy in post apocalyptic wonderland, in heaven everything is fine by lady in the radiator and brothers quay, stopmotion cinema photograph by H.R. Giger, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Hieronymus Bosch, Art Nouveau, intricately detailed, hyperrealism, fantasy, imperial colors"
Dedicated to late Shakti Chattopadhyay..
."eto kalo mekhechi du-hate
eto kaal dhore
kokhono tomar kore, tomake bhabini"
Bournemouth Pier & BIC at dusk today. Zeiss 21mm FE on Sony A7R II f/22, ISO 800 4,15 & 30 sec. exposures x 3
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