This challenge left me completely uninspired until I saw a preformance by Fred Becker ( //www.fredbecker.com/ ), a magician who is orginally from Altoona, but now preforms his act with his wife all over the world. He has an act where he uses bubbles and glass balls which was simply beautiful and is named after his one daughter. As I sat watching the bubble float around the theater I suddenly had the idea for a photograph of bubbles for the flight challenge.
I must have tried at least 30 photos to get this one and the smaller bubble although slightly out of focus is floating along behind the other one. I couldn't decide between Hey Kid! Follow me and Follow the Leader but the Hey Kid! seemed to have a multitude of possibilites to it.
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Oh look, he said in a slightly sarcastic voice, guess who i get to write a CC for: and I even deliberately left it a little later this week, just to change the chances :-)
Like this shot very much Anna - particularly the world inside the bubble: especially as the rest of the world, the world around and outside it, is completly out of focus. Can't believe the score - thought this must at least have scored a six, but perhaps people don't look closely enough - they just see a couple of bubbles and move on.
I think I would have called it something like 'a floating world' and tried to bring the emphasis more onto the view insude the bubble, rather than highligting the fact of their being two bubbles - that at least is what i find most striking visually and emotionally here.
A couple of other things: the swirl of the trees in the bubble-world almost makes a ying/yang sign, which is also a good touch, and the distortion (like a fish-eye lens) of that scene - a close up of the one bubble might have served as a Nostalgia photo (though again, no-one much here would have appreciated it).
Technically balloons float not fly. ;-) Nice shot noetheless! I don't think that the use of shallow DOF adds anything to the photo. My eye tends to want to see the other balloon in focus as well. 5
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