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Kanishka Dasgupta
{K:1717} 3/23/2008
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Nice shot!
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Dave Stacey
{K:113245} 3/23/2008
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Very nice detail, texture and composition, Andre!
Dave.
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Stan Ciszek
{K:25734} 3/23/2008
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Nice capture Andre,
Happy Easter my young friend.
Stan
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Andre Denis
{K:55471} 3/23/2008
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Thanks for visiting and commenting Kanishka. I'm glad you like it.
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:55471} 3/23/2008
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Thank you Dave.
Andre
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Andre Denis
{K:55471} 3/23/2008
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Thanks for the visit and comment Stan,
Happy Easter to you too!
Not so young anymore though Stan ;( Young at heart anyway :)
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:85570} 3/24/2008
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You got a good lighting/toning and very good details for the right look and feel of the rock, Andre! The sea seems really to end up very abrupt on the horizon and I wonder what that look may be the result of. Normally we perceive something like a "continuation beyond view range" but here it looks like the very end. I think that the inclusion of the stripe of sky plays a big role for that, and also the rather light colors of sea and sky with that narrow line of deeper blue exactly at the horizon. It seems to say "here is the border, the end". (BTW, what kind of phenomenon is that? Never saw something like that before.)
I assume that the relativ overexposure of sea and sky except that very thin line was the key here.
Quite unusual work!
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:55471} 3/27/2008
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I think you got it right Nick. The direction of the light and the over exposure seemed to work well with the horizon in this case. I wasn't sure if taking away so much of the sky would work or not. But I'm pretty happy with the results. The concrete blocks are part of a large breakwater, similar to what they build along the shores of the Atlantic ocean. It is actually a lake rather than a sea. But the Great Lakes are as big as a few small seas. :) No tides though.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:85570} 3/28/2008
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Thanks a lot for the nice explanation, Andre! I'll have to try something similar perhaps at Geneva Lake, though it is too small for not seeing the other side and getting such an impression of an "ending world". But perhaps if some fog lies over the land, who knows.
BTW, lake Huron alone is about as big as half Switzeland. Now, that I name *big*!!!
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:55471} 3/30/2008
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Hi Nick,
I have no doubt that a similar effect could be created with fog or mist on the horizon.
This last summer, my wife and I took a drive up to visit my oldest son where he is currently residing. (writing his disertation on North American Aboriginal relations) He is living outside a small town called Fort Frances Ontario.
During our trip, we drove all the way around the Great lakes. I included a few landscape postings from the trip back a few months ago. Lake Superior is by far the largest and most impressive of the five Great Lakes. Everything about it seems big. The waves, the trees, the rocks, even the sea gulls are bigger. :) It is truely rugged country.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:85570} 3/31/2008
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Hi Andre!
I must say, considering also the trip to Florence your sons can feel lucky! Great thing to see that young people are given the chances to proceed with their own ideas and wishes for what to do! That must be a very interesting subject... North American Aboriginal relations! Really, I can only be so happy that not everybody writes a disseration about the usual holy smoke of yet another economy model. Wish him all mental power and all fun with his work from me!
I'd like so much to see those Great Lakes some day. Canada in general is much of some kind of "out of this world" in my mind. I mean a real "another country", different, and not only for mere size. It has its very own unmistakable character, I guess.
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:55471} 4/1/2008
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Hi Nick,
One of the great things about Canada is that once you go about 300k away from the lager cities, it isn't difficult to get lost in the wilderness :) In a good way, I mean! North of Toronto, North of Montreal, North of Winnepeg, North of Vancouver, Beautiful everywhere, :)
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:85570} 4/3/2008
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Oh yes, I am sure that one can get lost that way in Canada, Andre! And I think that this kind of "getting lost" is some certain part of life itself in such a place. I remember some film I saw some time ago, in which a guy from Canada said something like: "We don't lock doors because we are kind of afraid to not be able to get out" - or something like that. Now ask me what movie that was... can't remember. Anyway, it seems to me that you have a nice balance between city life and that kind of "getting lost".
I am quite urban, or perhaps already a city rat ;-) But I am convinced that getting out there is the best way to also remind us of the fact that real life includes drinking water and breathing air. So many times we seem to forget that this is also reality. And so perhaps being lost in such regions is good for a more down to earth consideration about nature as the surrounding that defines our own lives. And also for separating the absolutely important from all the other things that are "nice" but not really necessary. A kind of sieve, if you like.
I remember some years ago, when I was afraid that changing my job would only be a danger. Well, it took only some days of walking around Davos in the mountains and the forests - and the place is way way way smaller than those huge regions of Canada. Still it brought that kind of inner stability, to be out there and to see that there is much that can be scratched off the checklist of "important things". Perhaps a good way to get closer to the definition of the own self again. Those regions you talk about must be ideal for that.
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:55471} 4/10/2008
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Hi Nick,
I think we all need a few good trips to the "wild" every now and then. It's good for the soul. I don't think it really matters whether it is the woods, desert, sea or jungle. As long as we get to experience it with few people around. That is a good line from that movie that you mention (about locking doors) I don't remember which film it came from. I just recently saw the film, "Into The Wild". It's a fairly controversial film based on a true story of a young man that simply gives up everything to live in the wilds of Alaska as a recluse. When you watch this movie, you realize how thin the line is between being a very spiritual person and an irresponsible vagabond.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:85570} 4/11/2008
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Ooohh, you touched such a point here, Andre!
Yes, this seems to be very true to me too! And for me the "irresponsible vagabond" and the "spirituall person" is one and the same. It is only the kind of acknowledgement created by all other people, that either stigmatizes or glorifies such a person. But the person itself remains the same, and also perhaps completely outside any possibility of such an "either-or" justification from the rest of the world.
I feel very closely connected to such persons, even if I still didn't abandon the usual human world for living "out there". But I do notice how the behavior of many people I know changes when they know that I did something similar by deciding to not live and care for my "settlement" and "career" and "security" any more. In a way I did something similar to what their definition of "irresponsible vagabond" does. I reduced the amount of "generally accepted necessities" and maximized the amount of *my* necessities, which include things that are ununderstandable to many people. So I left my "secured" job and went for completely "insecure" things, like mathematics ;-). Since then I can't say what will be in the next years - perhaps it works great, perhaps I fall down, I don't know.
But when I was out there, it was only me myself that asked: "Do you really want to live for ever getting wet eyes and heart attacks when reading the math papers, because you don't do that anymore?". I'll never forget that moment! That I name really spiritual - it had a definite content and was surely no kind of undefinable... something. I was devastated, you know, because all what I worked so hard for so many years proved to be of no value (for me!). But it had to be that hard in order to be heard too. And I am sure it wouldn't happen if I were somewhere in some of my usual places, be it office, home, whatever. It had to be out there.
Now, many people here are at least "wondered", since for them "security" weighs more. But not for me. And so for many people here I am the "irresponsible vagabond" and for many others the "spiritual person". To me these are more or less "labels". They don't have much content. So, I guess I have to see that movie, "Into the wild". Perhaps the "wild" proves to be more human in the sense of rejecting acceptance of any way of life solely out of reasons of "normality".
I wrote so much again... sorry me Andre, but your points are mine too so often!
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:55471} 4/12/2008
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Hi Nick,
After reading your comment, I have to insist that you see this film for sure now. It is a true story. (unfortunately, I haven't read the book yet) Here is a link that gives you all kinds of info on the book and film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild
I hope you enjoy it. It gives us a lot to think about and It's one of those movies that stays with you for some time afterwards.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:85570} 4/13/2008
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From what I read I must say that I am surely going to watch it, Andreč! Thanks a bunch for that.
The story reminds me of some of my real relatives, who perhaps are also such "supertramps" but in some other way. It is that "strange" crowd that finds delight and sense hunting from one university to the next, and living from a plastic bag that contains 3 socks, 1.5 oranges, an almost empty paket of cigaretts with notes on the back, and 20 papers with the latest proceedings in mathematics. Why does that guy in the customs office looked so surpriced at me? ;-)
Well, I go to amazon for ordering the DVD now! Thanks once again, and I think I must tell Avi about that too, since he is so interested in movies.
Cheers!
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:55471} 4/14/2008
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Hi Nick,
What you describe also reminds me of my own sons. The oldest for sure. He is a pure scholar, with very little interest or time for a lot of consumer pursuits. Just as you say, a plastic bag with some fruit and off to another conference or presentation. We had the pleasure of his company for about 2 hours today before I drove him off to the airport for Boston. What a life :)
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:85570} 4/15/2008
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So, another one of the "But-dad, it doesn't matter the T-shirt"-club, ey? ;-) This kind of contact with all people around, when going for the next conference or similar, it just comes automatically. One even doesn't get tired with all this because the enthousiasm is so strong that you could forget anything else. Much like kids that are about to go out to play. They would be able to even forget their shoes because of that impatient exceitement. Wish him all the best from me when you talk to him again, and tell him "Don't forget the bag!" ;-)
Cheers!
Nick
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