So far, I've never got stuck in photoshop that just googling the problem hasn't been able to sort. The benefit is you get thousands of hits with, usually several different techniques for achieving the same end. That way you get to pick the method that best suits your confidence level.
Untitled by (MrB), on Flickr The guy in the chair on the second outfit was looking right down the lens. Untitled by (MrB), on Flickr Untitled by (MrB), on Flickr
Okay. I've been taking photographs since I was about 8 or 9, and in the business professionally in one respect or another for the last 26 or 27 years, and have always had...particular views on what photography should and should not be. (don't get me started). In all the photographs I can remember taking, this one is my favourite. It's not technically brilliant, it was taken on a £400 compact camera, on full auto settings, with fill in flash, 7 years ago. But to me it freezes and records an instant in history, just 1/350 of a second in the story of the universe is all it is, but I have not been able to reproduce the sheer life represented in it either before or since. That is everything that photography is. Just the capture of all it can see for the briefest point in life, before they are gone and subjected to fragile memory. The real trick is choosing which point.
I don't profess in any shape or form to have any spiritual leanings whatsover, and I have to admit to getting a bit cheesed off with all the current media hype surrounding it, but this is a story that's fascinated me for years. So am I the only one who's hackles rise when I see this picture? It's given me the creeps since the first time I saw it.
Believed to be, yes. As it left Cookstown in Ireland. I doubt any of the pictures taken afterwards survived. The next photograph taken of it was 73 years later. Along with the historical significance it has a strange composition, not in the correct part of the frame and not classically cropped. The perspective of the ship itself makes it appear to be disappearing and already somewhat lost. Creeps me out, but like I mentioned in a different thread earlier, photography at it's best must have a narrative.
Good photo Ken, I think the photo is just part of it, it's the memories of before and after that make it special too
Bit gay, but one of my fav things to do is head off on the bike to lands end, don't know why, but it's a place that holds something special to me, and everytime I do it, not only is it a great ride there and back (two full on days) but its one of the few places I can forget about the shite rat race I live in mon - fri Here's some pics, the last is my screen saver
