@azza_l yeah, does look a bit fake but prob not... should of set the shutter speed a bit higher tho and changed the f-stop for more bokeh effect on the background, other than that, ok I suppose and one I might consider using as a stock photo... :-)
@azza_l No I wouldn't but then I wouldn't pay $100 for acid washed pre-torn designer jeans either. Apparently someone thought it was worth that much but for me- I don't think I'd even spend $43 on it.
Like when this shot came up before, a couple of months ago or so, I feel like the lone liker of this photo. :) I love minimalism though. Now, as to what I'd pay for it, well, yeah.
Gurksy describes Rhine II: "It says a lot using the most minimal means … for me it is an allegorical picture about the meaning of life and how things are." . Suddenly, @grecican grabs the pic & wipes her ass with it. Now that would be an allegorical picture about meaning of life... :)
@rich57 No wait - I was offering a discount but it wasn't going for free! Actually - after chasing down a version of this theme I realised how difficult it is around here to get perfectly straight lines. Maybe there was more to the original composition than you think....
I have sold at least 3 photos for more then this one but I guess because I sold them on Ebay and not Christies.. no one cares. Oh well, sucks to be this guy!
Now I've seen the picture and read about it, I am amazed to find that actually this isn't the picture he took! He didn't find a landscape that reflected how he felt, blah blah, he digitally removed the things he didn't like until the photo suited his purpose......I'm going for Alison's @fueast every time!
@fueast@clarissajohal Ok. I'll start the bidding with the offer of a pint of lager or beer in the local pub tonight. I'll chuck in a packet of peanuts if it's comes in a frame.
Looks kinda like my back-garden ;-)
And if I had only taken a few steps to either the left or right side (and there wouldn't have been so many geese....)
I wouldn't have paid it... I just look out of one of my windows ;-)
This clearly has more to do with name than talent. I'd like to be witty about it but at the moment I am just despondent. At least someone is making big bucks around the holidays.....oh wait, it's the person who already HAS big bucks. Someone's holidays just got brighter!
It's of no meaning at all. £2.7 million....if I had that money and wanted to blow it on a photo of the Rhine I'd go there with my favourite photographer, I'd buy him a Canon EOS 7D and I'd get my favourite supermodel, say...Hattie Watson, to splash round in the Rhine in her birthday suit on a sunny day while my aforementioned favourite photographer snapped away. It would still come in at less than that so who'd buy such an impersonal and drab photo when that amount of money would take you to the moon and back?
I'mma start taking minimalist photos and selling them for absurd prices. tell a rich person you're selling it for 1.2 million and he'll find a reason to buy it just cause it's expensive.
That is crazy! As a matter of fact, I recently went to an art festival and said to my husband, "I see better photographs on 365 than I do from these artists!" I couldn't believe the prices people were asking for, in my opinion, for mediocre photographs.
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Seriously tho mate.. that shot is AWESOME....wow, just wow.!!!!!
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/picture/2011/nov/11/eyewitness-ready-for-touchdown
Now that is awesome, looks CGI
How about this by @fueast, available free to all us 365ers!
@pocketmouse what ? You never know...someone may have done.
***smirks.
@fueast I would of thought this is limited edition ! Tho I know what you mean straight lines and may be finding them but still....that much money.
@janmaki @grecican I don't think christies allow that sort if behaviour
@moonpig I heard it SOOC only !
@bobfoto You'd get more of down a car boot sale!
@swilde Youre right it does ! Rather crisp though for a moving car :)
And if I had only taken a few steps to either the left or right side (and there wouldn't have been so many geese....)
I wouldn't have paid it... I just look out of one of my windows ;-)
At least for the price the horizon is straight :-0