wow... i'm dizzy. getting headache. : )

Sorry. It doesn't work at all for me ... Maybe with a slower shutter speed it would be even more blurry and the color would merge togeteher and could form a nice painting or something. But here ... I don't know ... I can't wait to hear why you've decided to post this picture ... But I guess you had a good reason :-)

Fred @ 400iso.com

it doesnt work for me. the colours looks brilliant on a black background but thats it. i dont like the extreme blur i guess

Looks like it was taken from a car...

are you sure that this is the photo you wanted to put up?

LOL: try looking at it bearing the title in mind.

I guess having an explanation helps with understanding images, and when it's partly abstract it leaves much more to the imagination. I'm interested what the white and blue streaks are.

I really like the colours - nice abstract work! Are those highland cows in the forground? :)

nice and a bit unusual for you dave. looks almost like a Canon ad... ;)

Personally I think this is a great shot and it's equally wonderful that there is no explanation. All we are left with is the pure emotion of the shot and nothing else. It communicates more powerfully when we have to fall back to our instincts and just let the swirls of light speak for themselves instead of being spoon fed an explanation. Awesome shot.

Finally you post an image that looks like I could have taken it!

All I will say is that if I posted a photo like this I wouldn't get a single comment...essepecially not anything positive. You have quite the following.

A photo that's a painting! :-) :-) :-)

Nice to see you putting up something a little more 'abstract', if that's the right word. Would look fantastic as a huge print.

I opened up this page and thought...WOW...beautiful. I love it. A chance to think beyond the box! Literally...very meditative.

I like the colors, and you can almost see identifible figures...does require some explaining though.

This reminds me of a photo (probably in some book on imaginative photography techniques) of a girl in a cornfield, where the direction of blur matches the angle of the cornstalks - looks like an impressionist painting. The strong colours make this more abstract, and I like it that there's just a touch of white sky above the dark hills. It also reminds me of several ECM album covers; but finally (and far less flatteringly) the green and white lines in the distance remind me of what happened when I took a long exposure just when a night-time flight touched down!
Perhaps, with a trick of the eye, they could be chickens pecking, rather than horses; then this could be titled Avian Flu!

Lovely colours. That purple sky and the vivid green go great together. I suppose they are horses, though they look like dogs to me :O
Is that snow on the ground? I see a fence and a road. But the fluttering things. Are they some sort of flags/pennants in the breeze? Or could it be a vehicle somehow? Nice shot Dave. I like it for the fact that it's a little unusual.

Thats what i call,
A moment of Tranz..
Btw i like it very much

I believe you were riding when you took this shot. I look on it like a painting rather than a photograph. I like it.

Sorry Dave,
I can't say I liked this one (for a change). If you see it with less intense colors, there is not much to it, and to me an image should go beyond color. Don't get me wrong, it is just a matter of personal taste, I am sure you'll get many "wow!s" :o)

Beautiful shot. I can not wait for tomorrow's explanation.

Homage to Ernst Haas?

Maybe it doesn't sound like, but I am being serious now: Looks like if two hobbits from a moving fellowship were photographed by the third -drunk one. Meadow, mountains, probably water and two short persons, all mixed in blur makes that feeling. But it isn't bad, it's rather interesting (truly) and I like it some way :). Can't wait for your story and infos, D. Greetz.

Hmmm. I'm not sure that I do have a story for this one, at least not one that makes a great deal of sense. For me, it's about colour and movement – the sense of space and the inability to work out quite what the scene is about. As for what it really is, not that I think this makes too much difference, the two things are Shetland ponies, drinking at a pond in a field; the white and blur blurs in the middle-distance are a mystery; and this was shot from a train.

I guess you either like this one or you don't ;-)

Ponies, right :) That proofs while something's not clear at all, one makes the thing what they want it to be. If you had confirmed those shapes are hobbits, I'd write these mysterious blurs are some casted spells ;) but in this situation I'll simply end up with "A really nice, refreshing work".

OK, I lied, they're hobbits: I just didn't want to draw attention to the fact that there are mythical creatures living on the outskirts of Blackpool ;-)

The Shire is in the UK! I actually like this shot. It's not always about a shot telling a story. The color and feeling of movement do it for me.

Hi (first time posting :s )
Interesting shot, I like the colours, especially the purple and green contrast.

Is how you envisaged the final result???

I also wonder whether this would have worked as a still image (not from the train!) I imagine there would have been lots of different textures!

good one. The colrs are just fantastic.. Given that you were in a train, such a shot within 1/5 second just is awesome..

Thanks everyone. This type of shot is something that interests me, though I haven't done many recently, so there will probably be more at some point (including tomorrow's).

The colours are nice, but I would never have known those were horses -- wild or otherwise.

These one make me thinking to a picture of the great chinese painter Zao-Xou-Ki, by colour and composition. Just an umber of motion...I like this dreamy shot .

mythical creatures living in Blackpool too.
BTW WTF!

nice shot, David --- I'd like to try my hand at this -- John and I were just talking about this -- apparently, there's a few more great examples in a past issue of View Camera Mag --- good stuff for sure...

HTML is allowed. Leave a clear line between paragraphs. Like these "movements"...

For me; I don't need to know what the subject of this photo was in order to be engaged. A fleeting emotion/feeling/moment? Like a waking dream--beautiful!

impressionistic picture...