bluechameleon
paper doves in flight
Posted by bluechameleon (Vancouver, Canada) on 30 December 2008 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.
"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
-- Carl Jung
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613photo from DALLAS, United States
Love the texture you used on this one. Contrast is perfect. Good shot, sir.
30 Dec 2008 5:09am
Marcah from Quincy, United States
Fantastic. You must be one of them to get this shot. Wonderful image and processing.
30 Dec 2008 5:18am
Jean-François from Les Issambres, France
un magnifique travail de texture et d'ambiance !
30 Dec 2008 5:24am
Scott Schilling from San Martin, United States
I love the texture and the black and white - very nice. I also like the poem!
30 Dec 2008 5:48am
sherri from Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
A perfect image for manipulation...so nicely done.
30 Dec 2008 6:18am
john4jack from Corvallis, United States
Beautiful shot. As usual, a superb job of post-processing. Terrific quote by Jung. He also maintained that our capacity to integrate these opposites was essential to being whole.
30 Dec 2008 6:20am
Evelyne Dubos from Le Mans, France
I totally agree with the quote... even if sometimes i would like to feel happy constantly....
Lovely work of post-treatment and powerful picture.
30 Dec 2008 7:25am
Angel from Madrid, Spain
beautiful image. The processing of the black and white one is spectacular.
Greetings
30 Dec 2008 8:27am
k@ from Paris, France
The bright white gives that ghostly mood I like a lot. White needs black that needs white, day/night, Life/Death, and so on for our balance... I agree so much, and we live much better accepting this instead of fighting it...
30 Dec 2008 8:31am
e m i l l a m o l a from Barcelona, Spain
Encantado de descubrirte. He visto fotos excelentes aquí en tu photoblog. Felicidades y animo para continuar.
Y feliz año...
30 Dec 2008 9:10am
Florence from Paris, France
This is a gorgeous image, beautifully enhanced by the post-processing and texture.
30 Dec 2008 11:40am
sorter from tehran, Iran
i cant be who you are ...
thats a good photo , i like it in this way ( B & W ) very much
take care. can you post me the color version ?
30 Dec 2008 1:59pm
@Cheryl: Yes, that is fog, snow and a lot of ice. It was incredible that day and everything seemed to be levitating. However, those birds really are in flight :)
dj.tigersprout from San Bruno, CA, United States
a very beautiful and poetic shot on its own... only made more subtle and more elegant with the texturing... just stunning and free!! bravo BC!!! happy nye to you!!!
30 Dec 2008 2:52pm
marianne from Toulouse, from France, France
and the sun needs moon, and so on ... I agree also, but I don't like darkness, I live only in the light .........
a very nice shot, I love your "papers" in the fog .....
30 Dec 2008 3:07pm
Tracey from White Hall, United States
Like the minimalistic feel of this one. So poetic.
30 Dec 2008 3:15pm
daina from United States
Wonderful image - the processing gives it the look of an old art print.
30 Dec 2008 3:20pm
Denis from A giant black hole filled with lights, Tuvalu
Surprising. I am not sure of what I see. Looks like a painting
30 Dec 2008 3:42pm
hugo poon from hong kong, Hong Kong
Beautiful picture of peace and words of wisdom! Enjoy your pic (and also Steve Rice's) so much that I've decided to post a birds pic of mine tomorrow, notwithstanding that it's nothing close to yours.:-)
30 Dec 2008 3:51pm
EYES WIDE SHUT from United Kingdom
The freedom of flight, the ability to soar above the ground below, to ride the thermals for the sheer joy of life, to take off at will and land wherever I want. To feel the wind in my face, to crash land on the sandy shores, the world as my private landing strip, my oasis.
I dream of flying, I yearn it, I'm envious of the birds.
This is a dream of a shot, beautifully observed and presented.
30 Dec 2008 4:06pm
Vink from Grasse - French riviera, France
Un envol sublime et majestieux qui prend tout son ampleur dans ce décor enneigé ! Fantastique !
30 Dec 2008 4:15pm
Steve Rice from Olympia, United States
Beautiful image; love the textures. You've taken your artistry up a notch (if that's possible since your images are already perfection).
30 Dec 2008 5:13pm
Pixim from Nice, France
I like much the photographs of birds of the back, the impression to follow them, be in flight with them. The treatment is very well carried out, and one does not see sky, simply this line of trees at the background. Of course, Carl rightly when these words are addressed to children or patients, but let us dream to leave these perpetual passages of the white to the black, and the black to the white. I dream of a way of the medium where all is appeasing (Yes, yes, that can exist on ground…) Moreover "Jonathan" is not any more with them, it is except field of the apparatus. Excuse me for the digression, your photograph is very beautiful and pleasing for the reflexion Bravo ;)
30 Dec 2008 5:45pm
james from portland, United States
World of opposites, cold and hot, flight and flightless, we all need constast in life to know what the other side means. Nice story and image.
30 Dec 2008 5:52pm
Alphons from Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands
Beautiful graphic picture. Very strong by processing. Well done.
30 Dec 2008 6:21pm
Marion from Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Beautiful work BC. Reminds me just a bit of Amy's style and that is a big compliment.
30 Dec 2008 7:07pm
Marcopolo76 from France
Good evening, Vancouver
Je was satisfied to get acquainted I hopes that you are going to continue to pay small visits on my blog I Made a tour on your blog, I have to say that your photos are magnificent as well in color as in black and white!
All my excuses for my English
Goodbye Marco
30 Dec 2008 7:09pm
Claus Petersen from herfølge, Denmark
Wonderful post processing, it really adds a lot to the atmosphere!
30 Dec 2008 7:20pm
Lorraine from Canada
A dream of a flight...to freedom, beautiful Blue, beautiful ;)
30 Dec 2008 7:43pm
JJ from Jersey City, United States
Wonderful capture and processing the texture adds so much depth and feel to this, wonderful quote
30 Dec 2008 9:11pm
Polydactyle from Montréal, Canada
Just amazing post-treatment! Great work! In my collection.
30 Dec 2008 10:34pm
amy from Nanaimo, BC, Canada
This moves me in so many ways... beautiful doesn't do it justice.
What did you use for your texture layer?
31 Dec 2008 1:11am
grant from kansas city, United States
they look menacing - like big, slow bombers. this is to say that, again, your photo has made quite an impression on me.
31 Dec 2008 4:34am
Ivar from Indianapolis, United States
Wow really gives me a vinatage feel in this, great work :)
31 Dec 2008 4:50pm
Canon PowerShot A640
1/400 second
F/4.1
30 mm