bluechameleon
chinatown - westbound
Posted by bluechameleon (Vancouver, Canada) on 29 March 2009 in Documentary & Street.
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
-- John Lennon
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Nataly from Santa Monica, United States
Ah, you never let us down! Great find! By the way, who is Lamar? Should I call? I could...
29 Mar 2009 5:12am
Linerberry from Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand
Fantastic!!! You have an amazing eye....well seen and shot!
29 Mar 2009 5:39am
Inés from Namur, Belgium
De l'autre côté du miroir ... j'ai très envie d'aller y faire un tour, histoire d'aller à la rencontre d'autres histoires, d'autres mondes ...
29 Mar 2009 6:15am
Suzanne from Huntington Bch, California, United States
Superb capture. Love the reflection and how you've framed it.
29 Mar 2009 6:22am
k@ from Paris, France
I lOvE that ! Swinging silhouettes in the mirror becoming part of the wall to waterfront station ! Great living westbound compo !
29 Mar 2009 6:28am
beanow from Warsaw, Poland
Fantastic capture. Particularly intriguing the reflection in the mirror... I will admit that this very creative picture is, with the birth-marks of the artistic photo. BRAVO!
29 Mar 2009 6:31am
Brian Chen from Seattle, United States
Very nice street shot, i like the strong contrast here and the strange mirror.
29 Mar 2009 7:07am
P J W Miller from Chase Terrace, United Kingdom
Intriguing composition and yourself included, the mirror looking like a portal into another world
29 Mar 2009 8:51am
Anna.C from LA ROCHELLE, France
excellent ! love this urban composition and the distorted image in the mirror !
29 Mar 2009 9:07am
Momo from Montpellier, France
great image bc, the composition is so strong, can you say multiple rectangles?...and the warped weird metal in what looks like a space for a poster is just perfect...like how the mind distorts reality...love this...and i also love the old style voltage symbol/sign...i guess it's still used but it looks a million years old now...have a great sunday...
29 Mar 2009 9:36am
Stef67 from in my head, France
le tout les jours est tellement rempli de vie et d émotion et la tu les retranscris à merveille ^^
29 Mar 2009 9:49am
Cheryl from Texas, United States
intriguing image, lots to look at here with lots of textures. love it!
29 Mar 2009 10:52am
Lorraine from Gatineau, Canada
No smoking in CHINATOWN, wow they go all the way there! Fantastic photo by the way ;)
29 Mar 2009 11:16am
zahai from Berlin, Germany
Haha, wonderfully captured and spotted. Love the distortions...beautiful sh0ot :)
29 Mar 2009 11:34am
Pavan Kaul from Mumbai, India
Wonderful as always! Such drama and mystery in this fine composition!
29 Mar 2009 11:43am
mo.langel from Courtelary, Switzerland
Superbe image! Je te vois dans le mirroir déformant!:O) Toujours un excellent N&B!
29 Mar 2009 11:55am
hugo poon from hong kong, Hong Kong
Wonderful capture of the urban mood and details! Oh Sharon, your pose (waist-level shooting) is soooo cool!:-)
29 Mar 2009 12:21pm
@zOOm: *waves*
dogilicious from Millerstown, PA, United States
You have an excellent eye. Really like the composition and all the little elements that make it up. Love the "you will get shocked" dead man!
29 Mar 2009 1:39pm
Polydactyle from Montreal, Canada
Nice composition. The contrast between the wall and the mirror deformation is brilliant. This provides the dynamism and depth.
29 Mar 2009 2:08pm
john4jack from Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Dynamite capture! Terrific reflections! Lennon's line is more true than most of us know!!
29 Mar 2009 2:15pm
Marcie from Newton, United States
Fantastic! Love the ambiguity between the reflections and all else. Great eye and timing!!!
29 Mar 2009 2:21pm
EYES WIDE SHUT from The library of my soul, United Kingdom
Oh so casual, Sharon, the lady in the reflection taking hip shots my way! ha ha
Creative and stylish, a wonderful self portrait with a difference
29 Mar 2009 4:27pm
Ajay from Pune, India
Another great representation of a very small aspect of city life.
29 Mar 2009 4:50pm
Frida from Sweden
Great capture of street life. I really like the distorted mirror with you in it :-)
29 Mar 2009 4:58pm
rian from Mobile, United States
excellent street capture, there's a lot of things to see here.. :)
29 Mar 2009 5:42pm
António Pires from Lisbon, Portugal
Concrete, steel, glass, plastic. I shouldn't like this image. But I do. Why? People. Not the people reflected on the mirror but the people looking at the concrete, steel, ... , like your camera's eye is doing.
29 Mar 2009 5:47pm
Ronnie 2¢ from London, United Kingdom
Anything that looks attractive in a train station structure is likely so by chance but you have played it well here with the odd mix of brutal shapes and textures. The John Lennon quote is priceless.
29 Mar 2009 8:14pm
Christopher from Atlanta, United States
Sometimes it is the odd that makes us think a bit more than otherwise.
29 Mar 2009 8:33pm
Phototherapy from Switzerland
Excellent clash between the real reality of the wall and the imagination in the mirrors ;)
Maybe the image is a bit crowdy, a square framing with the left part only will make it more percutive.
29 Mar 2009 9:34pm
ordinaryimages from Kentucky Bluegrass, United States
Apropos quotation. best...jerry
29 Mar 2009 10:17pm
dik from McAllen, United States
It is hard to believe it's a photo or even rel life. More like a dream that cannot quite be remembered.
29 Mar 2009 10:59pm
Magda from Vancouver, Canada
Original.... I like it! Great textures and splendid reflection! Bravo
30 Mar 2009 12:36am
Steve Rice from Olympia, United States
Brilliant! You never fail to present the unexpected.
30 Mar 2009 2:47am
nadia from Canberra, Australia
awesome!! love the contrasts in the picture! it's really so cool! :)
30 Mar 2009 3:32am
Susan from United States
Excellent shot...I especially like that you can be seen in the reflection. Always a bonus to see the photographer doing their thing!
30 Mar 2009 7:05pm
Rotten Pixels from United Kingdom
a reality within another. i like how you have composed this Sharon. cool.
30 Mar 2009 10:44pm
Craig@Random Ramblings from Herts, United Kingdom
This is superb, I came across a mirror like this on the underground and wanted to take a shot but there were a load of security men in the reflection-you need a permit to shoot on London underground.........great work as always.
31 Mar 2009 6:17am
Luis A. De Jesus R. from Mexico City, Mexico
Wonderful imagery. That mirror and reflection ties in the entire composition. Perfect seeing and composition.
17 Apr 2009 3:50am
Canon PowerShot A640
1/60 second
F/3.5
13 mm