It's a nice picture. Breaking the rules of the subject placed on the intersection of the force lines (1/3 and 2/3 from the picture size). I don't want to point to my pictures, I have a pour photo camera. But I will point to a spanish jallien: Javier Martinez. Those clouds are very good too: http://www.flickr.com/photos/japus/sets/781491/show/ And to Russell's grandpa (no cloud inside) : (this is one my pictures taken with an $130 camera) :) http://www.elforum.ro/download.php?id=5924 If I'll be allive and at NY in august, I'll buy a true one... greetings, Vasile On 6/17/07, Russell McMahon wrote: > > So is it worth 1000 words ??? > > > http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/4094041a6479.html > > Well, if the words are all the same, such as dollar dollar dollar ..., > or exposure exposure exposure ..., then certainly yes. > > If it was a matter of describing what was seen well enough that a > viewer would recognise it instantly and not be surprised by any of the > content, then maybe 100 words or two hundred would do. > > If it was a matter of replicating it well enough that it looked like > someone had copied it from memory after having seen it the day before, > then a few hundred words would probably do. > > But, if it's meant in the sense that the term is usually meant, yes, > it's worth 1000 words. > > I'm becoming increasingly aware that "top" photos in a competition are > not pickable in advance by the submitters. It's not even possible to > predict with any certainty what will attract a newspapers interest. > Beauty is very very very much in the eye of the beholder when it comes > to photos. > > Just because *I* like a photo (like this one) it doesn't mean anyone > else will. > Below is one of a series of photos that I took that I especially > liked. > I think that this one is in the same class compostionally* as the > winning example cited above - *BUT* if 10,000 judges didn't think so I > wouldn't be surprised. Just a bit sad :-). > > The scene is surreal. A large conveyor system with wwwww > bracing underneath ascends at an angle from near the middle lower > right towards the left, terminating about 2/3 of the way across the > picture and 35% up in a rusty steel tower, perhaps 50 feet tall. > There is one intermediate bracing tower, also rusty. . The conveyor > then turns at 90 degrees away fro the viewer and runs horizontally > into the middle distance. A strange somewhat yellowish stone building > is visible through the conveyor bracing and below the conveyor at its > right hand (lower) end. There are 3 black vaguely seen lamp standards > with lamps on the ascending conveyor's frame and much closer to the > camera a single bright white lamp standard of similar design. A series > of low greyish clouds are drifting from (so the story goes) the right > and onto the ascending conveyor. The conveyor is picking up clouds, > carrying them up the conveyor, sorting their component parts in some > manner and depositing them into off colour white, grey and brown > beneath the conveyors horizontal section. Evidently it has been very > cloudy as there are now large conical piles of cloud components > beneath the conveyor. Some clouds have escaped capture and are > scudding on towards the left. The sky is an impossibly deep blue with > whisps of high altitude nimbus. A gravel road enters the picture from > the view point and curves across the picture to the right, with light > levels darkening as it goes so it leaves the picture in front of the > base of the conveyor with its details invisible due to dark shadow. > There is a silhouette of what may be low tress or bushes at far right > at the very base of the conveyor. > > I could add more words to the 290 or so above - so far I've really > only got to the "describe so no detail will surprise when viewed" > level, and even then viewers WILL be surprised as the overall impact > is (I think) far greater than the above factual description may > suggest. > > Viewing the picture gives you the 1000 words at a glance. Needless to > say, the conveyor is NOT dismantling and sorting clouds, but that's > the impression that it gives me, and I HOPE that is the impression > that it gives at least some other people. The title "Cloud Conveyor" > or perhaps "Cloud Catcher" is intended to enhance that impression. > Successfully or not. > > 3 versions at > > http://others.servebeer.com/misc > > The small version quality suffers from compression > artefacts. > Medium is OKish. > > Big 1,674,815 CloudConveyor.jpg > Medium 223,878 CloudConveyorh70.jpg > Small 58,167 CloudConveyorq70.jpg > > > Russell > > > * Optically it's rather noisy, but that's another issue. > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist