Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Construction viewpoint
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This has humour showing a picture landscape against a real landscape. Enjoyable.
It made me think of all those folks with movie cameras who walk round videoing everything so that they can play it back and experience it for the first time!
Is the green screen to prevent folk seeing the real landscape?
Do you know why it is there?
Rex, this is big construction site, the green netting is a 'barrier', but then they added a couple of viewing panels. I had to get down low to include the far green panel and the flags,which are across the street on the other side of the construction site. A little paradoy, as the potential viewers are in the middle of this beautiful landscape, and they want to peek at the mindless construction going on....
the potential viewers are in the middle of this beautiful landscape, and they want to peek at the mindless construction going on....
I'm not sure why you call it mindless, but that aside I think it is a common human thing to be attracted to change and activity. People do find it difficult to sit and watch a landscape - no matter how beautiful - because *nothing is going on*.
This looks like a hard place to be waiting for a bus.
'This looks like a hard place to be waiting for a bus.'
That was my thought too. Regardless of the view, my ankles are getting cold just thinking about standing there.
The flags in the background make me curious; what is this place?
Trompe l'oeil in a non-space. The greens, snow, dried out vegetation and grey sky make for an attractive colour combination but the overall effect is as disorienting as it must be in that place for real. Simon and Garfunkel can't have had this bus stop in mind.
I can't work this one out. The picture within the picture seems out of scale with its surroundings yet it all joins up at the seems. Quite bizarre. Contrary to others, I'd be happy to wait at the bus stop the other side just to give me a chance to work it all out. The slushy stuff at the front gives a 'pleasing' introduction to the beauty behind.
Matt, this is a construction site in Vail Colorado, the flags are a part of the entrance to the city of Vail, trying to recognize all of the international skiing visitors. The flags are across the street from the construction, but getting down low, I can include them in the view.
As soon as I saw this arrangement, I knew that I had to photograph it!
Thanks for all of your comments!
I'm curious as to just how low you had to get to get this view. Knee-height? Or even lower? It very successfully makes me look again and again to figure it out.
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It made me think of all those folks with movie cameras who walk round videoing everything so that they can play it back and experience it for the first time!
Is the green screen to prevent folk seeing the real landscape?
Do you know why it is there?
I'm not sure why you call it mindless, but that aside I think it is a common human thing to be attracted to change and activity. People do find it difficult to sit and watch a landscape - no matter how beautiful - because *nothing is going on*.
This looks like a hard place to be waiting for a bus.
That was my thought too. Regardless of the view, my ankles are getting cold just thinking about standing there.
The flags in the background make me curious; what is this place?
As soon as I saw this arrangement, I knew that I had to photograph it!
Thanks for all of your comments!