Pictures Taken By you...

[YesNo]

I like the sparkles in the blue of the water.

I have been trying to make sense out of the differences in the experiences of a view of the water itself and a photo of the water and to relate these in terms of "magical realism" that was mentioned in a separate thread or Freud's "oceanic view" mentioned in another thread.

One difference is the border. There is none in the view of the water itself. The other is the detail. There is more in the photo than what we are aware of when looking at the water. I think the photo can pick up information that we might not be able to see directly, but I am not sure.

[North Star]

Didn't notice your post before, YesNo.

I agree that photographs can record much more detail than we generally notice when glancing at the scenery, and often things that photographer who looks much more carefully doesn't see. Here's the whole bunch at Flickr.

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[YesNo]

The ice is an unusual theme. Of your recent sets of photos, my favorite one is this:

What I like are the large colored circles of light in the background.

[North Star]

The ice is an unusual theme. Of your recent sets of photos, my favorite one is this:

What I like are the large colored circles of light in the background.

Unusual? Perhaps. That's a good thing, I think.

Thanks. Yeah, you get that with light coming through smallish slits from ahead and with larger aperture, i.e. a shallow depth of field (i.e., when things fall out of focus rapidly).

[Dreamwoven]

The other day we were driving along the large lake by our village and I noticed the iced-over area was at the edges where the water was shallower, last in the deepest middle of the lake. I had never thought of it before. Its obvious when you stop to think about it, deep water takes longer to freeze.

This is the north end of the lake in summer: http://www.ockelbo.se/Invanare/Bygga...ter/NO-Bysjon/

[North Star]

The other day we were driving along the large lake by our village and I noticed the iced-over area was at the edges where the water was shallower, last in the deepest middle of the lake. I had never thought of it before. Its obvious when you stop to think about it, deep water takes longer to freeze.

This is the north end of the lake in summer

Yes, the edges of the body of water will freeze (and melt) first, as demonstrated by Ansel Adams with this photograph.

[North Star]

[North Star]

[YesNo]

Yes, the edges of the body of water will freeze (and melt) first, as demonstrated by Ansel Adams with this photograph.

This one by Adams has an interesting contrast between the top portion which seemed sharper and the lower softer watery part. In the middle to the left was that snow (I assume) which offered a transition.

[Pensive]

Simply love the very beautiful and artistic additions to this thread.
I could share some photos from my recent trip. I was in Vilnius and Poznan. Took night buses to both places and explored the old town during the day time. I liked the colourful architecture in the old towns and christmas celebrations adding to the beauty of place and people. It felt like in the middle of a fairytale, or a dream, making it even more so as I was partly sleepwalking having night buses (not always the most convenient place to sleep) and day walks!
*includes a selfie taken by myself enjoying really tasty dairy icecream in Vilnius old town*

[Dreamwoven]

Pensive, these are beautiful pictures of Vilnius and Poznan! I had no idea...

[YesNo]

Nice pictures, Pensive. It is the first time I heard of these places.

[Dreamwoven]

Vilnius is in Lithuania and Poznan is in Poland. But like YesNo, I was not aware that they were such old beautiful towns.

[Snowqueen]

Very nice pictures Pensy. Thanks for sharing.

Here are some random photos...

I took the first one when I was going for work. It's the surrounding area of a village called Gola (in KPK).






My uncle's pet resting in our small garden.

[Dreamwoven]

Snowqueen: Gola in Croatia (KPK). Nice cat, by the way.