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Wow, Ellen! What a photograph! It feels like a time tunnel and then I realized it was the lens of your camera! How you use reflections and light always make your photographs thought provoking. With this one, I am both floating out over the buildings and water while at the same time standing with you taking the picture.
Thanks for sharing with us all 🙂
What I love most about this photo is the slow unfolding of its multiple layers. It has a mysterious, almost crystalline quality, that quietly lures you in deeper and deeper.
My eye was drawn to the circular ripples at the center of the picture. At first glance, they looked like the result of a fisheye lens. Then I thought, “Oh, I know now…she’s taking a picture of the city through the bottom of a bottle”. As I continued looking and my view expanded, I began to realize that there was something more than just buildings in the periphery of the shot. I couldn’t quite grasp what it was at first. Finally, it started coming into focus. To my amazement, I saw two hands, and then finally, the lens of a camera looking back at me. The effect of the total composition was so strong and unexpected that it continued to intrigue me long after I realized what it was that I was looking at.
The sense of movement that is engendered by the interplay of the cityscape, the photographer’s vision of the scene and the ultimate revelation of the photographer herself, gives this photo the dynamism that comprises a true work of art.
Wow, Ellen! What a photograph! It feels like a time tunnel and then I realized it was the lens of your camera! How you use reflections and light always make your photographs thought provoking. With this one, I am both floating out over the buildings and water while at the same time standing with you taking the picture.
Thanks for sharing with us all 🙂
it’s gorgeous!….makes the city look like it’s in a bubble….very creative, as always!
I don’t know what you did to accomplish this photo, but it is really extraordinary! Quite surreal, actually, and a very lovely “altered state.”
Thanks. Photographer’s secret! But so glad you liked.
Such an Ellen G photo! You’ve got a great eye.
What I love most about this photo is the slow unfolding of its multiple layers. It has a mysterious, almost crystalline quality, that quietly lures you in deeper and deeper.
My eye was drawn to the circular ripples at the center of the picture. At first glance, they looked like the result of a fisheye lens. Then I thought, “Oh, I know now…she’s taking a picture of the city through the bottom of a bottle”. As I continued looking and my view expanded, I began to realize that there was something more than just buildings in the periphery of the shot. I couldn’t quite grasp what it was at first. Finally, it started coming into focus. To my amazement, I saw two hands, and then finally, the lens of a camera looking back at me. The effect of the total composition was so strong and unexpected that it continued to intrigue me long after I realized what it was that I was looking at.
The sense of movement that is engendered by the interplay of the cityscape, the photographer’s vision of the scene and the ultimate revelation of the photographer herself, gives this photo the dynamism that comprises a true work of art.
I love this photo, with all it’s complexity and depth, from the viewer’s standpoint.