Artsy Pictures: Share Your Inspirations

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The thread centers around sharing and discussing inspiring photographs, with participants posting links to various images and expressing their thoughts on photography styles and personal experiences related to the images. The scope includes personal reflections, artistic appreciation, and technical aspects of photography.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant shares a link to a site featuring ordinary subjects captured with unusual compositions, expressing admiration for the emotional impact of certain images.
  • Another participant identifies a specific image as representative of Holland, while questioning its uniqueness.
  • A participant highlights a photograph of colliding water droplets, describing it as visually striking and likening it to a jewel.
  • One contributor expresses enjoyment of the shared images and mentions the beauty of the Dutch landscape, noting that it is reclaimed land from the sea.
  • A question is raised about whether the photos are edited, with some participants suggesting that the colors appear overly vivid for realism.
  • Another participant comments on the use of polarizers and editing in photography, while expressing a preference for traditional black and white photos.
  • A participant shares a link to a gallery of photos from their own location, inviting others to view them.
  • One participant reflects nostalgically on a past science camp experience, sharing a personal story related to a photograph and expressing deep emotional connections to the memories associated with it.
  • Another participant acknowledges the shared stories and images as a form of communication, appreciating the diversity of experiences represented.

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Participants express a variety of opinions on photography styles, with some favoring edited images while others prefer traditional methods. There is no consensus on the uniqueness of certain images or the realism of their colors, indicating ongoing debate and differing perspectives.

Contextual Notes

Some participants express personal experiences and emotional connections to the images, which may influence their perspectives on photography. The discussion includes subjective interpretations of artistic expression and technical aspects without definitive conclusions.

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Individuals interested in photography, artistic expression, and personal storytelling may find the shared experiences and discussions valuable.

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I was browsing the internet, and somehow I ended up on a site of a father who had gotten a digital camera for his birthday.. shooting pictures of the ordane things in life with unusual compositions.. http://www.davidchess.com/pictures/digicam/index.html

Somehow after that I ended up on the following site: www.photo.net and was amazed how touching some of the pictures are..


this one I found extraordinary:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1141753

It would be fun to see if anyone has interesting pictures too share?
 
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I am not going to let anyone else post in this thread! hehe, these pictures are just too good :) here is one for the physicists under us: two water droplets colliding..

I saw the smaller thumb first and it looked like a jewel on a ring.. amazing shot!


http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1288689
 
This is TOO cool! The pictures are giving you all greating from Holland! nice.. I am having a little too much fun here.. time to stop :)

http://www.photo.net/photodb/member-photos?include=all&photo_id=1129911
 
very nice.
 
Nice huh? About those Holland pictures, that is right where I live! The cheese market is the city I studied in, can you imagine the bore, having to travel through this landscape everyday by train?

btw it is all reclaimed land from the sea.. the following picture is quite nice:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1269678

the road is at sea level
 
Are those photos straight from the camera or are they edited? The colors seem to extreme to be realistic.
 
Any good photographer will use polarizers and such :) the photographer mentions which pictures were modified and how.

Seriously, the site contains really good pictures of the most diverse subjects.
 
Originally posted by Monique
Any good photographer will use polarizers and such :) the photographer mentions which pictures were modified and how.

Seriously, the site contains really good pictures of the most diverse subjects.

I agree they are amazing photos, but I still like traditional b/w photos the best :)
 
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I really miss there

http://www.angelfire.com/freak2/antiwork/2401755.jpg

Can you see there are small houses down there? That was the place where I had my 18 year old birthday, the place where I met a group of good friends who enjoy science as much as I do, the place where a 6-days science camp took place, the place where I discussed about SARS, Bernoulli's theorem, gene chip, frontiers of astronomy, etc with my friends till after 2am, 3am, 4am and even stayed up whole night for the discussions, the place where I had communication problems with most students there coz I couldn't speak Manderin well (my mother tongue is Cantonese), the place where I impressed an astrophysics professor by what I knew and the questions that I asked after lectures and "night talks", the place where I had too much unforgetable [edit:and happy] memories that I didn't want to leave.

I consider the chance of being able to attend this science camp one of the miracles in my life. The camp site was located in Tai-wan and I was one of the 5 invited students from Hong Kong. We went to Tai-wan by aeroplane and it was my first time traveling to a place that was far away from home without parents' surveillance.

This picture was taken on Saturday morning, about 6.30am. On friday night, we spent 3.5 hours walking up a mountain, which was about 1700m-1800m above sea-level, to stargaze and to watch sunrise! The camp site down there was about 1100m above sea level. It was very cold up there on the mountain top and I didn't sleep for one whole night! The coldness on the mountain top vanished immediately after the sun came out. At the time the picture was taken, I was already exhausted and could be able to fall asleep on the road at any time using less than 10 seconds.

Well, I really miss there. I think that was the most fantastic period in my life.
 
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nice story!
 
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All three ... very nice!
Thanks for sharing.
That's another way of communicating.
An amazing world full of variation.
 

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