The image and title Communiqué are a tribute to one of my all time favourite songs and albums (Communiqué by Dire Straits)
I bought a tape version of the album the moment it hit the shelves and have been enjoying it for the past 30 years (replaced eventually by CD). It is a pity that I never got a chance to see them play live.
I have been eyeing this dish farm for a few years. I happened to be driving home on the highway at just the right time (dusk with Waxing Moon and Evening Star) after a photo shoot and pulled up on the shoulder with cars tearing past me at 140 km/h. I shot off a few images trying to get a gap in the traffic, hand held with the the motor running before my nerve ran out or the cops fined me :) PP was a small crop and contrast, brightness, TopazLabs DeNoise5, white balance adjustments to emphasise the blue already there.
Post Rollover: Pretty happy with this finish (at one stage it was at 7.1) Thank you for the votes but more importantly for the wonderful comments.
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Average Vote (Commenters): 9.1429 craigdm you nailed it! :) Thank you!
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Beautiful shot, made more beautiful by the Dire Straits reference (hopefully it was intentional). They had an album and song called Communiqué, but this shot is a dead ringer for the cover of their live album On The Night which ironically doesn't feature the song Communiqué.
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