Thursday, May 24, 2007
Dublin 1 - Holyhead
Except that this is Holyhead. We live an hour from Fishguard and it was our intention to cross to Rosslare and catch a train to Dublin. But the best that the combined brains of UK and Ireland could come up with was that trains left Rosslare ten minutes before the ferry got in. So - drive to Holyhead and catch the ferry to Dun Laoghaire. Holyhead is neglected: the ferry terminal sits in detached modern glory while over this walkway is a town that might still be in the '50s. The low cloud and drizzle didn't help!
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I like the shape and colour of the orange thingy.
The path and balustrade lead my eye through the image. The upright is a bit unusual in compositional terms.
That's probably because it is a bit unusual, full stop! If you imagine moving around, you will probably realise that it is difficult to make a conventional composition: the question is, does this work?
Definitely works for me. Unusual is right, too. It looks like it was hand colored with just orange and blue. What is that "orange thingy"?
Christina - I think that it is a designer object, along with the blue glass on the bridge/walkway. I imagine that it is supposed to have echoes of a bollard.
The composition definitely works. Possibly a scene best viewed photographically and not in reality :-)
And who'd have thought that anybody would implement a 'hand coloured' mode in a digital camera.
I find this pic slightly disturbing. The orange thing is in my space, and some malign presence is bleaching colour from the town.
That orange thing is kind of disturbing. What are the curly bits just above the railing? Looks like something alien.
Matt - from what I recall of a fast tour round the town, that is a footbridge over the main road passing the centre; but there was no incentive to walk back to look! In terms of what you find in Holyhead it is alien. What the blue glass looks like when there is a blue sky, I don't know; but in this sort of light it took on a life of its own.
I'd like to see a little more distance between some of the main protagonists in this shot. Primarily between the orange thingy upfront and the blue fencing to its right hand side. Other than that I'm enjoying this shot. It is so dull in a good way that I have kept coming back to it and finding much more detail.
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The path and balustrade lead my eye through the image. The upright is a bit unusual in compositional terms.
And who'd have thought that anybody would implement a 'hand coloured' mode in a digital camera.
I find this pic slightly disturbing. The orange thing is in my space, and some malign presence is bleaching colour from the town.