"For men may come and men may go but I go on forever"
"And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever."
With apologies to Alfred Lord Tennyson and also of course to Ansel Adams whose wonderful photo is before you... with George walking past.
Took the shot (several times, lots of giggles as folk avoided crossing in front which of course was exactly what I wanted them to do!) for the ONS4 challenge... to show motion blur. The trip to London was bitterly cold but wonderful, and this was the main event - a fabulous exhibition of Ansel Adams' work 'from the mountains to the sea.' We passed Adams' glorious, timeless shots, marvelled at how he accomplished so much without digital cameras or computer processing, composing many of the shots upside-down under a cloth! We, like many others, admired them and passed by, but his shots will endure for generations to come. And deservedly so.
I got blurred tube trains and folk rushing about, but feel this reflected the day...btw it was a poster in a corridor outside, I wouldn't have dared get the camera out inside the hushed exhibition!
Totally bushed now, I plan to post more of the fun we had another day and catch up with your shots asap. For now I thank you for your kind words on my Urban-ex shot yesterday and thank Jerry for the challenge, short but sweet it certainly got me thinking differently!
Have a great week x
PS The quote is the final verse from 'The Brook' if anyone is interested in googling it.
Looks lovely but can you reload it please? Looks like something went wrong somewhere. I get a big black blob and some pixels shifted out. Same on each of my computers
Nice shot! I love the blur. It is funny isn't it when people avoid going in front of someone with a camera... LOL ... But at least you got your son to walk in front of you! What a lovely piece of art you took, too! It's absolutely lovely Great job, Phil! :)
How did you get George's blur in colour and the photo in B&W? I am thinking perhaps the photo itself was not in colour. Anyway, makes for an interesting capture. I bet, George was more than happy to do the photobombing!
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Hi Guys - I've done an imperceptibly tiny change in picmonkey and reloaded it... is that better? It's one of Ansell Adams' photos with my son George blurred at the side as he moves past the poster. (Depicting motion blur). If you can't see it don't worry, you haven't missed much (but the Ansel Adams pic is great if you can catch it somewhere else...in fact if you click on this you'll see it as we did... http://www.rmg.co.uk/visit/events/ansel-adams ) :)
@seanoneill :) Don't know about you, but I was really disappointed with the very few postcards and prints available to purchase at the exhibition... I just loved the huge back-lit prints and could have gazed at one of them all day... even in miniature behind my computer on the wall...! It was a cracking exhibition, very nicely done
Hi Guys - I've done an imperceptibly tiny change in picmonkey and reloaded it... is that better? It's one of Ansell Adams' photos with my son George blurred at the side as he moves past the poster. (Depicting motion blur). If you can't see it don't worry, you haven't missed much (but the Ansel Adams pic is great if you can catch it somewhere else...in fact if you click on this you'll see it as we did... http://www.rmg.co.uk/visit/events/ansel-adams ) :)