Reincarnation's Waiting Room

[Adsos Letter]

...if only I had used a tripod... :(

[NV Whino]

1. I don't know about that

That's a wonderful shot.

Benicia train station? Oakland bus terminal? Davis?

[Adsos Letter]

2. It's in Boston; I snapped it last month. I had the monopod

but it was REALLY cold, I had been walking all day, and I was more than a bit shaky.

Thanks for the compliment; I sorta' like it, even though I wish the board had come out sharper.

[teamster633]

3. If you'd been walking all day with a tripod you might not have made it that far.

Sometimes you have to settle for what's possible, despite what would have been ideal.

[Adsos Letter]

5. Yeah; if I had lugged the tripod all over Boston that day I actually MIGHT have made it that far...

to the real reincarnation's waiting room, that is. :D

[JeffR]

4. Magical.

From a purely technical standpoint, it shouldn't work. And yet it works very, very well. Moral of story and note to self: look carefully at everything you shoot and don't automatically reject something because it's got blow-outs or focus is less than tack-sharp. And look hard for photo ops like this one, where the mundane world is transformed into something unworldly.

[Adsos Letter]

6. I was conflicted about posting it (if one can speak of being conflicted over a snapshot)

precisely because there is so much about it that is "wrong." :dilemma:

Still, I kept looking at it, and liked it, so... :D

I'm glad others also see something in it; thanks for the encouragement. :hi:

[JeffR]

7. I've been pondering the appeal if it.

And it did occur to me that the hallucinatory quality is reminiscent of several drugs I won't name here. It's as if the scene is dissolving in light and yet the solidity of things is still suggested...

Sometimes I wonder if the drugs alluded to above might have affected my ability to express myself coherently. :yoiks:

[Adsos Letter]

10. Those drugs alluded to only effect your ability to communicate clearly while you're trippin'...

...at least, that's what they tell me... :D

[Cassandra]

13. It's not like we need to know the detail on that board.

It's enough that we know it's a transit station. I think if the detail had been more clear, we'd be distracted reading it instead of appreciating the lighting and the transitory scene.

[hippywife]

8. For all that you had been through that day,

I think this is a really fun, knock out shot. Could it have been better, sure! But with the title, I think it works. :hi:

[Adsos Letter]

11. Thankyou, hippywife. I think it only works with the title. And...

not only had I walked all over Boston that day, but I also climbed the 294 steps of the Bunker Hill monument. :D :hi:

[ManiacJoe]

9. Very well titled.

While this photo has lots of what would normally be technical errors, it is these "errors" that help make this an artistic shot. The overexposed lights give this a light, airy feeling while the slight camera motion and subject motion due to the long exposure create a softness that gives a ghostly appearance to almost everything in it.

[Adsos Letter]

12. Thanks; yeah, I agee, it really only works in association with the title

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

14. How did you get

only color on the board?

[Tindalos]

15. This is very cool!

I think the lack of a tripod actually makes this picture better. The slight blur and the glare makes it more ethereal and surreal than it would probably be otherwise. Excellently titled too.


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