667 - Electric Ladyland VI

I've spent most of my day sleeping and mulling over a title for yesterday's entry, and what meager fruit I earned, I earned it late afternoon on my way to the lake. I was really in a hurry, thus I had no time to experiment. I settled with an image that I had already taken once and not used then. Today I used the new Nikon 70-300 VR at 112mm and f8.

As always in this series: The Song of the Day is still "Have You Ever Been (to Electric Ladyland)" from Jimi Hendrix' 1968 album "Electric Ladyland".

629 - Electric Ladyland V

Time for another installment of my "Electric Ladyland" series. This time we are in Vienna, the image is from today (caught up!!) and again I don't fight the ever present cables, the wires that keep our civilization running, again I use them. Apart from that I may have added some slight enhancements in Photoshop as well. I can't help it, it just happens some times.

The second image is from the morning. That's what I originally wanted to present as Image of the Day, before things got out of control :)

As always in this series: The Song of the Day is still "Have You Ever Been (to Electric Ladyland)" from Jimi Hendrix' 1968 album "Electric Ladyland".

528 - Electric Ladyland IV

Two very different images, two very different treatments in post-processing. The Image of the Day was shot at the same place as "489 - Electric Ladyland III", only some meters to the left and with a different lens. The landscape is completely dominated by masts and cables, dissonant as the rough, noisy finish that I have chosen. In contrast to this we have the undulating, horizontal lines of the other image, bucolic, soft, finished with a soft blur on top.

It would be about time to answer to Ted Byrne's recent essay "What Do We Do After We Go “Wow”? The purpose of beauty in art photography", and these two images could be an anchor, but it's too late now. I'll try it tomorrow :)

In case you have not guessed it: The Song of the Day is still "Have You Ever Been (to Electric Ladyland)" from Jimi Hendrix' 1968 album "Electric Ladyland".

489 - Electric Ladyland III

This entry could have been "Give'em Enough Rope" after the 1978 Clash album. On Thursday (yes, I'm two days late, this is the entry for Thursday) I went to take some images of the church of the small village Selpritsch.

The images of the church were not particularly interesting, but in front of the church, there is a playground with this rope dangling from a tree. I took the image with the Sigma 70/2.8 at f2.8 and from fairly near. Thus the DOF.

This entry could have been "Give'em Enough Rope", but instead we are back to the power lines. Taking images of power lines has become something of a project lately. It is part of an examination of the tensions between tradition and the effects of modern life. This is all really at the very beginning and even I don't know exactly what direction it will take. Let's see.

The Song of the Day is still "Have You Ever Been (to Electric Ladyland)" from Jimi Hendrix' 1968 album "Electric Ladyland".

487 - Electric Ladyland II

Hmm ... seems like the Song of the Day stays the same, and so does the subject of my images. Only one so far for today, I may add one or two later.

This image was shot with the Sigma 150/2.8 Macro. Much less a typical landscape lens than the 70/2.8, but that's what I'm after at the moment: atypical landscape shots. This one is about a juxtaposition between a line of trees and a line of poles, and most of all it is about depth.

486 - Electric Ladyland

Harmony? Disharmony? Shooting landscapes in our modern times can be tough. Of course you can get out into the big national parks (Austria has quite some of them), and then you won't be bothered by power and telephone lines, but then, why be bothered at all? Are they not an integral part of our life? Don't we depend on them more than on anything else? Our heating system burns oil (hmm ... another such folly), but without electric power it would stop. It is controlled by a computer, it can be programmed to start and stop at certain times of day, to target certain temperatures, whatsoever, but take away these ugly power lines that we photographers hate so much ... and it stops.

If it must be, here is a harmonious image as well. Both were shot with the Sigma 70/2.8 at f11, in both I have cloned out some minor distractions. Disharmonious disharmony? Never!

The Song of the Day is "Have You Ever Been (to Electric Ladyland)" from Jimi Hendrix' 1968 album "Electric Ladyland".