the photography thread

[Guy Birkin]

River Trent in the fog.

[nkl]

superb!

[Orphax]

[nkl]

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[Venus Vulture]

dark - light: fabulous nkl

[Orphax]

Today saw this beauty:

Lime Hawk-moth

[sublamp]

It's been a while since I've posted anything here, but wanted to share some photos from my trip through New Mexico and Texas last week. Tons of gorgeous, rotting, rusting old motel and gas station signs in that area. There are more photos here if you're interested: http://sublamp.com/tagged/photos

[haesslich]

these are amazing, especially the last one. it reflects the cliche of rotten and run down 60s roadside architecture. i always thought you find those pictures only in the minds of europeans, rather than on american roads in the year 2011.

[sublamp]

Thanks Heasslich!
I'm interested in hearing more about what you wrote. Do you mean that most Europeans imagine these kinds of images when they think of America? We had to go out of our way a little to find some of these places, but most of them are just sitting there right off the side of the highway wedged between modern gas stations and fast food restaurants.
-Ryan

[haesslich]

no no, i had something different in mind (quite the opposite, in fact):
at least for myself it's like this: it's rather a picture i have in mind when i think about road movie cliches and the like. it's not that i expect this being 2011 USA. and now that i see these pictures it's like finding some of the pictures i took as a cliche, and that i believed to be not existent anymore, or too far from reality today, still exist in the real world.  
and for europeans (and other non-us-continental people ) it's hard to check imagination against reality

it's like thinking about bavaria, and then finding some of the bavaria-cliches to be real. which you might not not expect in first place.

now that i think about it, it's a little bit like the william gibson short story "the gernsback continuum" (though it's about something else)

[haesslich]

no no, i had something different in mind (quite the opposite, in fact):
at least for myself it's like this: it's rather a picture i have in mind when i think about road movie cliches and the like. it's not that i expect this being 2011 USA. and now that i see these pictures it's like finding some of the pictures i took as a cliche, and that i believed to be not existent anymore, or too far from reality today, still exist in the real world.  
and for europeans (and other non-us-continental people ) it's hard to check imagination against reality

it's like thinking about bavaria, and then finding some of the bavaria-cliches to be real. which you might not not expect in first place.

now that i think about it, it's a little bit like the william gibson short story "the gernsback continuum" (though it's about futuristic architecture from the past)

[nkl]

venus vulture | thanks!


sublamp | hey man! superbe all series. on the site, reddis are amazing - great colors.

[taylordeupree]

great pics, sublamp... i visit the US southwest every year or two and find myself searching out the same types of photos. i love these decayed, empty places... like lost dreams.

[mx]

Since my camera is broken  , I've been taking pics with my new phone for the last two months... HERE



Any ideas about great photo apps ?

[sublamp]

MX: Those are really nice! What phone/app are you using now?

NKL, Taylor: Thanks! I really want to go back and explore the Southwest more, this last trip was a little rushed. Most of these photos were shot literally off the side of the highway.