Challenge:Beauty (Advanced Editing IV) Collection:Portfolio Camera:Olympus D-490Z Location: Pleasant Hill, California, USA Date: May 29, 2005 Aperture: 8.6 ISO: 100 Shutter: 1/250 Date Uploaded: May 29, 2005
A diesel truck in slow-and-go freeway traffic on my way to work. Handheld, aimed by estimation, shot through the windshield.
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I love it. Don't any of you see the irony in this picture? Americans, we who are in a constant search for beauty, are slowly destroying the world's greatest; Trading it in for natural resources which shall last us 10 small years. After that, these spots which have had so much life, energy, and above all, beauty, will become nothing more then a sarrowfull memory of what it once was.
This picture, my friends, is the epitomy of beauty in our society of oblivion.
Thank you.
I thought it was a beautiful example of this type of pollution -- clearly-defined at maximum extension before dissipating in the wind, and not some wispy brown fog but really BLACK soot shooting out at high speed.
Plus, there is an element of sarcasm, as in the person who might be sitting at that vantage point saying "Now, isn't that just beautiful?"
Dave Ross once proposed a simple engineering change which could bring about improved emissions-controls almost overnight -- simply mount the exhaust pipes in the front of the truck.
I love it. Don't any of you see the irony in this picture? Americans, we who are in a constant search for beauty, are slowly destroying the world's greatest; Trading it in for natural resources which shall last us 10 small years. After that, these spots which have had so much life, energy, and above all, beauty, will become nothing more then a sarrowfull memory of what it once was.
This picture, my friends, is the epitomy of beauty in our society of oblivion.
Very interesting shot, but I don't think this qualifies as beautiful in any way. If this had been a different topic I would have scored it higher, but this doesn't speak to beauty in my opinion.
You really find such degree of pollution beautiful? I don't.
A snapshot (taken out of a car) of the back of other cars just doesn't say "beautiful" to me, and I can't even add points for effort :-(
I'll give you a 3 because it is in focus and recognizable.
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