i like it for the dream-like quality - same as the others in the 'series'...
abstraction is fun to play with in photography as mostly images are captured 'as seen'....

Nice effect David, very ghostly indeed. Have a nice weekend!

i dont like it. a tad too hazy for my liking.
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I like it, but not sure why. I also prefer it to the other images, I think the composition in this one is better than the other two.

Love it, keep doin' it...

I've been thinking recently that the trouble with digital cameras is that the images are just too real. I think you've just proved me wrong! Mind you there is probably some poor engineer sitting in Japan thinking 'and then they did what with my lens/sensor?'. You have to feel sorry for them.

More seriously, I think that this photo captures the way we often, in fact, see. Just vaguely aware of what is going on around us. Hazy and unfocussed, until something makes us concentrate. Your picture a few days ago of people staring out of a train showed faces the way they are in the front of a car. This picture shows what those faces are seeing.

Thanks for posting this.

It works for me. I do prefer to see motion blur done in camera, and I think this is a great example of what can be achieved with a little trial and error.

i love it, it's like scene from a dream

I like it, for its' painting like quality and colours.

I really like this image; it reminds me of an early, aged and faded photograph.

The other day on flickr, someone made a comment about one of John Perkinson's photos that he loved it when "photography instead of capturing a moment deletes time". I think that applies here and coupled with the watercolour-like blur records the essence of the scene rather than the scene itself. Perhaps our brains store scenes in such an impressionistic way and we reconstruct the detail of our memories from those basic imprints? Maybe that's why it appeals to me?

I like this effect. Artsy and visually pleasing. The colors and softness are especially nice.

Dave...I like it because of the reasons you specify above. While I think photography is certainly about preserving memories in the form of recognizable shots of family, friends, etc, it is also about the art. Peggy Chun once told my wife that watercolors is the "medium of happy mistakes". Well, I'd say that this picture, while not a mistake, is well within the intent of that quote. Probably too deep for a friday, but I'm on my 3rd beer (even though it is American beer!). Good weekend, all!

Yeah, what the others said. Watercolors. The almost pastel green and overlapping strokes of images give it a wet, handbrushed feel.

It's interesting to hear about your mindset while taking these types of photos. I can certainly relate, because it's the same way I feel about the Holga I've been playing with lately.

However, to be honest, I'm kind of tired of these. I find that interesting too, actually, because I always assumed others would enjoy the Holga images I've been producing as much as I do, but this makes me wonder if maybe it's more enjoyable for the producer (for whom these types of pictures offer a rare bit of unpredictability) than for the audience, for whom EVERY picture is a surprise until they see it. The unpredictability is nothing new for them, so it doesn't offer them as much of the thrill that it does for the photographer. But everyone else seems to have good things to say about them, so maybe it's just me that finds them somewhat uninteresting.

love the colors!

Were there two bikers?
I love dreamy effects like this, works really well here.

Love that dream like feeling........great to see the unpredictable especially in this increasingly predictable world. Love the colour and the lack of it if you get my drift.
Phil

It works fine, if you ask me. It puts an abstract spin on something we pretty easily can recognise. Nicely toned, too.

Personally, I like this image, which is the best of the bunch you presented in my view. I’ve done similar experiments myself, and seen others doing the same, but this is the best I’ve come across to date; this one looks so dreamy, like looking out an old glass window in the fog or rain.

Really good, it looks like an impressionistic painting!

I love it! When everyone is trying for the perfect, sharpest image all the time, I LOVE the creatively planned and purposely out of focus shots. This one works great. Keep experimenting!

Nice! It reminds me of a watercolor painting. :)

very interesting technique u used.. i am quite divided, i like the painterly feel to it but i am kinda blur as in wat the shot is tryin to tell me.. juz my 2cents eh! ;p

love these types of shots, but not sure about this particular one, this is in essence a panning shot, and I think with those shots you need a colorful and/or a texured background, here the background is so bland and featurless that it barely takes the blur

I love the painterly look of this. Looks like something Turner would have done.

I love effect blur and bicycle , great photography!:-)