I am on the coast, the Pacific coast, standing in the ocean and my brain is exploding because this is way different. The sun is setting it is a mix of Maxx and Turner and Thomas Kincaid. The colors can't be real. Pelicans hunt from the sky in flocks, the waves crash endlessly, there's a hull of a ship that crashed. I am taking pictures, shooting video. I look at the birds and I think of algorithms and databases. Yes, it's true. Math and physics, and the properties of light when the yellow sun light passed through the light blue of the cloud there's a bit of green then that if I painted it it would look fake.
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Oh, man, please keep taking pictures like this. I'm swooning.
Or Have U Gone?
Fantastic sunsets are west coast
Death Valley is deep, not low
You are a master.
Lenticulars see 3D=four dollars
3D Center of Art & Photography
1928 NW Lovejoy, Portland, OR 97239
Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks
Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival
July 4-8
Tom McCall Waterfront Park
west side of Willamette(Sp?) River
Platform Int'l Animation Festival
June 25 – 30th
See Portland Artworks:
Da Tung, North Park Blocks
Animal Fountains, outside Pioneer Courthouse
JC, I just posted a few more sunset images, along with some coastal shots at the picasa photo album. Thank you for your comments, but let me ask you a question. Why does an image of the sunset affect you, or any of us? After awhile I started getting used to it, and the important part seemed to be getting the most dramatic sunset possible.
autodrive, thank you so much for your cryptic poem, as well as the event listings. I may very well have to go to each of them, but I am most interested in the Lenticulars.
Nice pictures, Andrew. I especially liked capelookout7, but they're all good.
You once Red (I once wrote) --
The light laboriously breaks through the ceiling of clouds
sunbeams cutting like lasers
spilling Reds, pinks, and oranges
in the process...
Do you still like to read?
Perhaps the attraction of sunsets is an attraction to transition?
I do know that when I'm around something that huge, the feeling of being inconsequential is gorgeous, and makes me feel limitless.
Oh, and I love the other photos - um.. definitely NOT your typical touristy photos. I still love the beach/shopwrick/moon(?)shot.
So I actually woke up thinking about this question:("Why does an image of the sunset affect you, or any of us?") and I have to admit that I guess I just don't know. I could say it's because it's beautiful, but then beauty is usually subjective, yet everyone loves a sunset. Is it getting back to that part of us connecting with something very basic, natural, wild?
I just know I love these photos, and hey, it has to have as much to do with your perspective as it does the subject, so let's throw that into the mix as well.
-JC (aka anonymous at times - -not signed in, being lazy)
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