Friday, March 30, 2007
Clearwater Night Lights #16

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How did you get all those fire flies to do that?
And can you tell me the latin name of the blue sort?
This has immediate appeal, but I'm not sure that it would hold me for long. Beautiful colours though.
Taken on an evening boat charter (my husband was the captain) -- rather than be bored on the way in, I experimented with fairly long exposures and camera movement. Got a whole series of images of the lights and buildings along the beach, some even more abstract than this and some less so, where the buildings are evident. Had quite a lot of fun with it.
I wish we had fire flies around here -- too urban for them I imagine.
How can you ever be bored in a boat? Still, no reason why you shouldn't do this at the same time. It certainly has immediate appeal but then I think that it would benefit from being more abstract. For instance, the isolated white lights to the left show what is going on in a way that the the main pattern on the right doesn't. The first impression is of this coloured spring sitting in space and that seems to be what needs to be accentuated. If you removed the left side from the end of the main batch of lights and then cropped along the middle of the lights to make a mirror image of the sky below, you really would have something in space! Anyway, useful to get bored!
I look at this and think raygun (or at a push light sabre). A most interesting effect and the lights nicely split the scene in two. Perhaps a little less of the bottom as I don't seem much detail in there on my screen. I'm getting all sorts of sci-fi images from this: perhaps it's night-time jedi light-sabre training?
"This has immediate appeal, but I'm not sure that it would hold me for long."
This was my reaction as well. Although the lights are striking, I don't think you have used the full frame to effect. There needs to be something going on in the bottom of the frame, or maybe just more of that odd blue at the top.
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And can you tell me the latin name of the blue sort?
This has immediate appeal, but I'm not sure that it would hold me for long. Beautiful colours though.
I wish we had fire flies around here -- too urban for them I imagine.
This was my reaction as well. Although the lights are striking, I don't think you have used the full frame to effect. There needs to be something going on in the bottom of the frame, or maybe just more of that odd blue at the top.
