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Images => Life, the Universe & Everything Else => Topic started by: charlie on October 03, 2015, 07:32:08

Title: White top
Post by: charlie on October 03, 2015, 07:32:08
Cliche as they might be, I'm a sucker for those middle of the road shots.
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Post by: Frank Fremerey on October 03, 2015, 15:12:03
wonderfully minimalistic.
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Post by: Olivier on October 03, 2015, 15:49:22
The best part of it (for me!) is that the road stops abruptly.
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Post by: Jan Anne on October 03, 2015, 16:18:51
Awesome image Charlie, really like the gradually increase lighting of the road which pulls the viewer into the dark and mysterious landscape.

Very well spotted, captured and processed.

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Post by: Gary on October 03, 2015, 17:24:07
Quote from: Jan Anne on October 03, 2015, 16:18:51
Awesome image Charlie, really like the gradually increase lighting of the road which pulls the viewer into the dark and mysterious landscape.

Very well spotted, captured and processed.

+1 ... well done Charlie. Somewhere in the Mojave?
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Post by: armando_m on October 03, 2015, 18:27:46
wonderful gradients and composition
Title: Black Top
Post by: charlie on October 03, 2015, 23:38:01
Thank you's!

Quote from: Gary on October 03, 2015, 17:24:07
Somewhere in the Mojave?

Yes, Death Valley to be specific. Here is another along the same road only facing the other direction, this one is Black Top.

Title: Re: White top
Post by: Akira on October 04, 2015, 01:02:59
You compressed a certain time duration into one frame nicely in the initial image which looks like a frame from a road movie.

If it's shot in Death Valley, I don't really get the meaning of the title (not the Whitetop Mountains, right?).  Would be glad if you would explain...
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Post by: charlie on October 04, 2015, 01:47:53
Hi Akira, thanks for your comments.

Asphalt concrete is sometimes referred to as blacktop, perhaps this is predominately North American slang? The title is a play on that reference. The first image titled white top, the second black top. I'm not usually real big on titling pictures but for what ever reason I found it fitting here. I suppose everything's got to have a name on the internet though, right?
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Post by: Akira on October 04, 2015, 02:05:18
Hi, Charlie, thanks for the explanation.  If I would have known about the "black top" as reference to the asphalt, your title for the first image would have made perfect sense to me.  And it is, for sure, very fitting for this one part of the diptych.
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Post by: Jørgen Ramskov on October 06, 2015, 13:16:13
Great shot and PP.
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Post by: golunvolo on October 06, 2015, 21:12:45
Quote from: Jan Anne on October 03, 2015, 16:18:51
Awesome image Charlie, really like the gradually increase lighting of the road which pulls the viewer into the dark and mysterious landscape.

Very well spotted, captured and processed.
Ditto. I will try a version in panoramic mode, it may work too.
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Post by: elsa hoffmann on October 06, 2015, 22:48:00
love the road - it looks ominous - its great!
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Post by: BEZ on October 07, 2015, 00:29:59
One is so cool, well done!

It makes me want to get my motor running :-)

Cheers
Bez
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Post by: charlie on October 07, 2015, 22:24:07
And yet another middle of another road.
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Post by: elsa hoffmann on October 07, 2015, 22:28:40
that's beautiful!
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Post by: Jacques Pochoy on October 07, 2015, 22:42:45
Great series on the mythical road to infinity... :-)
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Post by: Gary on October 08, 2015, 15:50:35
Quote from: Jacques Pochoy on October 07, 2015, 22:42:45
Great series on the mythical road to infinity... :-)

... and Beyond.
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Post by: Mike Wallace on October 08, 2015, 19:46:27
Love road shots.  :)  Here's one that I'll add from a few months ago.  Great shot's everyone!  :)
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Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on October 08, 2015, 20:08:22
Perhaps red stripes are an alternative?
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Post by: charlie on October 13, 2015, 22:39:14
Bjørn, that picture is one of many of yours that has permanent residency in my memory banks and may or may not have influenced the creation of this picture of mine made back in 2007  ::)

Sunrise at the Cholla Garden, peering into the eastern side of Joshua Tree Park.