bluechameleon
making tracks
Posted by bluechameleon (Vancouver, Canada) on 3 March 2009 in Transportation and Portfolio.
“What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?”
-- Jack Kerouac
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john4jack from Corvallis, United States
Wonderful design and contrast, Sharon! Superb detail! Marvelous Kerouac quote (oh how we adored him)!
3 Mar 2009 5:24am
Linerberry from Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand
What a great title!! An image of the decisions we make and the many directions we take!!
3 Mar 2009 5:56am
Jean-François from Les Issambres, France
quel titre .......................... ;)))
I LOVE IT !!!! la vie est faite de chemins parfois imprévus et toujours nous avons la LIBERTE ........ bravo pour cette photo et ces B&W si symboliques !!!!!!!!!
3 Mar 2009 6:17am
Monique from Koh Samui, Thailand
Beautiful all those tracks leading in different directions, like in life, and the post processing brings the texture out even more, excellent capture!
3 Mar 2009 6:49am
Stu from Kyoto, Japan
Love the high contrast gritty quality to this. It really suits the graphic nature of the image.
3 Mar 2009 6:59am
Evelyne Dubos from Le Mans, France
A high contrasted B&W who shows well to advantage the graphism of this symbolic picture. Like that.
3 Mar 2009 7:24am
Suzanne from Huntington Bch, California, United States
This is a terrific abstract. Well done.
3 Mar 2009 7:31am
Paco Díaz from Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Strong composition and treatment, I like it.
3 Mar 2009 7:42am
k@ from Paris, France
You can imagine how much i love this ! Love trains and everything around but your grain is more than train stuff, it's great art and maestria, Sharon : a painting with a peppered & salted soul*
3 Mar 2009 7:49am
gelfoto from Madrid, Spain
Beautiful composition of channels, like ways of the life.
Greetings
3 Mar 2009 8:10am
Sarito from Basingstoke, United Kingdom
I simply love this.. very nicely processed :)!
3 Mar 2009 10:01am
Giovanni from Milan, Italy
A wonderful graphic composition! Love the textures and the pattern of the tracks.
3 Mar 2009 10:16am
zahai from Berlin, Germany
Superb composition and contrast. Love it :) Now i wonder, where do those tracks lead? Somewhere nice and worth going? Maybe hop on the next passing train to find out...
3 Mar 2009 10:50am
dogilicious from Millerstown, PA, United States
Great composition and the processing is very well done.
3 Mar 2009 11:38am
EYES WIDE SHUT from United Kingdom
Perfection of title, quote and photograph, something I have come to expect from your amazing talents, Sharon, and yet I am never less than delighted and in awe of the work as it appears. Fabulous
3 Mar 2009 11:42am
john from Oakville, ON, Canada
I like the strong visual imapact and the sense of movement.
3 Mar 2009 12:10pm
Ronnie 2¢ from London, United Kingdom
Love that Quote . . real inverted logic ! And your image is a perfect visual companion . .
3 Mar 2009 12:16pm
Craig@Random Ramblings from Herts, United Kingdom
Plenty of options for directions there, who knows indeed where each track will take us? I like the high contrast treatment.
3 Mar 2009 1:05pm
Viewfinder from Bradenton, FL, United States
I like this. Great textures. The quote is a real thought-provoker.
3 Mar 2009 1:14pm
Cheryl from Texas, United States
wonderful composition and pp! those tracks look to be from a toy train with fresh tracks in the snow!@ I like that you left in just a peek of the train!
3 Mar 2009 1:57pm
Doum from Saint-Alexandre d'Iberville, Canada
WOW! Ce sont des photos que j'aime vraiment beaucoup! The ambiance is powerful and we can say it's a dummy tracks...
3 Mar 2009 3:15pm
Ajay from Pune, India
Exceptionally brilliant composition and amazing black and white toning.
3 Mar 2009 3:23pm
kiji from valenciennes City of Lights, France
Great work on the framing and B&W toning
3 Mar 2009 3:32pm
ordinaryimages from Kentucky Bluegrass, United States
Decisions, decisions. best...jerry
3 Mar 2009 3:32pm
daina from New York, United States
A very strong graphic presence - love the lines crossing yet heading in the same direction.
3 Mar 2009 4:04pm
Steve Rice from Olympia, United States
You have so many brilliant images to your credit. But this one really grabs me for some reason. Perhaps because it such a strong image so perfectly processed. At any rate, I love it.
3 Mar 2009 4:29pm
hugo poon from hong kong, Hong Kong
Such wonderful contrast, textures and beautiful lines!!! Great find and it's perfectly composed!
3 Mar 2009 4:43pm
Manel from Girona, Spain
I like a lot the composition. I think that maybe the level of focusing is so much high, byt is a good shot
3 Mar 2009 4:53pm
Thomas @ bipsie from Breda, Netherlands
A very suitable title, clever composition aided by the title. The processing is spot on, very archivy/old look. A lower perspective might have even been better, but I guess that's a bit difficult here :)
3 Mar 2009 5:07pm
Sussi from Landskrona, Sweden
Good composition and interesting patterns!
You get the feeling that the picture is very old!
Well done!
3 Mar 2009 6:02pm
Cricket-Tammy from United States
What a great line with this one. So true with a perfect image to go along with hit.
3 Mar 2009 6:03pm
Stef67 from in my head, France
le contraste renforce l atmosphère et invite au voyage, superbe cliché ^^
3 Mar 2009 6:15pm
Manuela from Rennes, France
Un très beau graphisme pour un voyage imaginaire!
Bonne soirée.
3 Mar 2009 7:17pm
Pere Chuliá from Spain
Precioso juego de líneas. Gran composición y muy buen procesado. Un saludo.
3 Mar 2009 7:22pm
António Pires from Lisbon, Portugal
As in life, converging or diverging depends on the direction or on the mood.
3 Mar 2009 7:25pm
Ilan from Israel
Awesome!
Seems so simple, but so effective. Great graphical frame!
3 Mar 2009 7:58pm
zOOm from Paris, France
What a remarkable picture Sharon, in its simplicity, in its crop, in its contrasts. An eye-catching invitation to reach the nearest station...
3 Mar 2009 8:04pm
Michael Paulison from United States
Ahh... you've romanticized the switch with great composition and contrast. Nicely done.
3 Mar 2009 8:06pm
sherri from Little Rock, United States
Exceptional capture. So many tracks and curves. Love the deep black in this.
3 Mar 2009 8:24pm
Twelvebit from Victoria, United States
Nice touch to have the train car at the top of the frame. It would be an empty shot without it and having it lends an air of mystery.
3 Mar 2009 9:42pm
Marcopolo from France
Good evening
having seen this cliché(picture), I go off the rails(rave) completely
A soon
Marco
3 Mar 2009 10:20pm
Susan from United States
Love everything about this image...right down to the quote. Superb!
3 Mar 2009 11:33pm
Polydactyle from Montreal, Canada
I love you!! This shot is just perfect. Compo, contrast, mood... In my collection vfxy.
4 Mar 2009 12:54am
613photo from Dallas, United States
I don't know you quite enough to proclaim my love, but I do love your work. This photo especially, as I grew up near a big rail yard. This reminds me of those sights and sounds.
4 Mar 2009 1:11am
@613photo: Thanks so much! It's nice to know this image was able to take you somewhere. I grew up close to tracks I never really saw, but I would hear the train whistle off in the distance at night, and to this day it's something that I still love to hear.
Ivar from Indianapolis, United States
Great shot, really like the processing here too, the highlights and the tracks very cool.
4 Mar 2009 2:35am
John Maslowski from Dallas, PA, United States
Stunning work Sharon. The high contrasts and line are spectacular. Another fantastic creation.
4 Mar 2009 3:09am
Pavan Kaul from Mumbai, India
A lesson in composition and use of black & white..! Brilliant..!
4 Mar 2009 4:18am
John from Durham, United States
Oh I love me some tracks!! This is fantastic. Thank you for sharing.
4 Mar 2009 4:31am
Momo from Montpellier, France
triggers something in my mind like an old dream or a vision of things to come...fabulous bold graphic...
4 Mar 2009 10:50am
William Darhy from Paris, France
beautiful B&W as usual. The post processing is very nice here, and I like the geometrical pattern
4 Mar 2009 9:24pm
Earnest from Oklahoma, United States
Reminds me of an N-scale setup I once constructed...
6 Mar 2009 12:55pm
browneyes from Kanagawa, Japan
Contrasts, compositions, colors, super perfect. I really really love this.
7 Mar 2009 6:52am
Melinda from Tel Aviv, Israel
What can I say that hasn't already been said? Beautiful and wonderful framing.
23 May 2009 3:03pm
Nikon E995
1/97 second
F/4.8
ISO 100
29 mm