This was the fist one I looked for after the voting. It makes me ask how, what and where? As I do not know those answers; I see a space alien ship caught on an old Brownie with bad film. Such a great surge of creativity and a fine piece of art.
Will try to post a proper reply with some shots soon.
Thanks.
OK, I managed to upload it much sooner than I thought ...
I shot it from my balcony during a downpour. My wife was away and I was home alone sick and bored.
It's been raining here almost every day now and there's been floods everywhere. I have not been running the fans on full for a while. Doesn't even feel like I am in Colombo. It's a nice feeling if you don't have to travel much since you can't even access some of the roads when it starts. People have been carried out of their homes in boats.
I focussed on the water dripping from a small canopy roof over the balcony (it was put up to fix a flooding problem during the monsoons) and shot the lamp post acrross the street. I had the camera on live view so I could see what I was doing and manually focus on the water drops. They look like lines because it's a long exposure. What I really saw was falling drops.
But I wanted to make them draw in the frame.
The alien ship is ghosting from the lens because it's pointing at the light on the post (bottom right). After I setup the camera on tripod and saw the ghost (which I am familiar with and have used in previous shots), I decided that it had to play an important part.
It became my subject.
All the other elements, well if I can call that ghost an element, became support.
This was the fist one I looked for after the voting. It makes me ask how, what and where? As I do not know those answers; I see a space alien ship caught on an old Brownie with bad film. Such a great surge of creativity and a fine piece of art.
I've never really been inspired to guess at who the photographer was before now, but this whispers to me. Will have to see if I'm right after voting is complete. I like the simplicity of this, along with the textures. 7
The idea behind the Posthumous Ribbon is to encourage you to break the rules, to find new and different ways to express yourself. To free your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come, to laugh at world and at life, not doing what others are expecting you to do, but just following and listening to what's in your heart. DPC it’s a wonderful learning place where everyone should be supported on their way to be a photographer. A special attention should be aimed to those working hard with different views and approaches to photography, those not aligned with the mainstream taste and receiving no recognition. It’s our responsibility to support these photographers creating diversity and expressing different visions. Being active at the Posthumous thread it’s the best way to do it. Being active at the Posthumous thread it’s the best way to protect your and the other’s freedom of being different. Thanks for taking the time to enter this challenge. Stay wild.
Another one that keeps getting better with each look but I don't know why. I love haw this challenge has made me look at shots like this over and over and I am so looking forward to seeing the comments on this. Up to 8 but still a day to go.
I'm going with this as my top pick of the challenge, and I think it just may be by someone who has never won a posthumous ribbon. Which would make it all the more pleasing for me. I will be disappointed with Don if he does not reward you for this.
Second visit. Well I lie; it's probably my fifth or so. Nothing's changed; it's a spectacular and very instructive use of almost nothing to create an arresting photograph, and it's still my top pick. 10. Thank you.
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