This is not a stop sign, says belgian painter Magritte ;o)
🙂
This is fun. That red, what a nice addition. It just falls into place in the composition, not more, not less than its surroundings. Wonderful!
There are surrealist moments out there (in the west)… which at times, are very compelling.
I suppose those moments are everywhere, but maybe they’re writ large in the west! 😉
Aptly noted… 🙂
Alan said some of my Nevada road shots were only missing the wires… 😉 I did get a watch out for wild burros sign in one, but it wasn’t like this at all. I didn’t have the time to hunker down and think about shots in this way; it was more “snapshotty” but that’s OK.
Can you imagine how depressing it would be if every landscape we photographed from this day forward was thoroughly entangled with signs and wires? 😉
Remember Lady Bird Johnson? Wasn’t she campaigning against billboards in Texas? While we were driving towards Death Valley, I was bemoaning the wires, but then they disappeared….yes, it’s great when they’re buried, and you can concentrate on the landscape. But I have some photos I like around Seattle that are nothing but wires. 🙂
I’ve never thought meaningful landscapes need to be devoid of human artifacts. Nor do I think that “nature photography” is unsophisticated and full of cliché. I try to steer clear of that sort of restrictive thought and just let the photographs flow: a parallel stream to life experience.
…and yes of course I remember Lady Bird. I think I still have a plate block of those “Beautify America” stamps that came out when I was in maybe 6th grade.
JOHN TODARO
That’s funny. Bet you thought about getting rid of the stop sign. Glad you didn’t.
Actually, I stopped to take its picture because that was what it was telling me to do… 🙂
I get it! And I get it even more after seeing today’s (January 17) post. These are strangely charming.
thanks Linda
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thanks Françoise – bonne après-midi !
This is not a stop sign, says belgian painter Magritte ;o)
🙂
This is fun. That red, what a nice addition. It just falls into place in the composition, not more, not less than its surroundings. Wonderful!
There are surrealist moments out there (in the west)… which at times, are very compelling.
I suppose those moments are everywhere, but maybe they’re writ large in the west! 😉
Aptly noted… 🙂
Alan said some of my Nevada road shots were only missing the wires… 😉 I did get a watch out for wild burros sign in one, but it wasn’t like this at all. I didn’t have the time to hunker down and think about shots in this way; it was more “snapshotty” but that’s OK.
Can you imagine how depressing it would be if every landscape we photographed from this day forward was thoroughly entangled with signs and wires? 😉
Remember Lady Bird Johnson? Wasn’t she campaigning against billboards in Texas? While we were driving towards Death Valley, I was bemoaning the wires, but then they disappeared….yes, it’s great when they’re buried, and you can concentrate on the landscape. But I have some photos I like around Seattle that are nothing but wires. 🙂
I’ve never thought meaningful landscapes need to be devoid of human artifacts. Nor do I think that “nature photography” is unsophisticated and full of cliché. I try to steer clear of that sort of restrictive thought and just let the photographs flow: a parallel stream to life experience.
…and yes of course I remember Lady Bird. I think I still have a plate block of those “Beautify America” stamps that came out when I was in maybe 6th grade.
🙂