StevieB

Has recently uploaded 8 photos to the album titled Scout Moor Wind Farm
The long viaduct across the River Vincou carrying the Poitier-Limoges railway past the town of Bellac


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Ethan October 31, 2007, 12:50 PM
I was watching gone with the wind yesterday and this reminds me of it - one of the painting-like backgrounds that looks hyper-real, imagined or impossible, everything just falls into place in the most perfectly aesthetic way.

The trees on the left break this illusion, but you can't take a photo of the imagination.

StevieB October 31, 2007, 01:36 PM
Thanks Ethan! That's a fascinating comment. I wonder if it's something to do with the quality of the light? This was a misty winter's morning just as the sun broke through with this weak watery light. To me it gave the scene an almost 2-d look, and you're right that the foreground tree disrupts that.
Ethan October 31, 2007, 09:00 PM
Yeah, I think there's something to that. The sun's quite low and positioned so we can see both the harsh light and the dark shadow, I think it's similar to the way a painter will clarify an image, without losing it's reality. And it's just really well taken.
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