First of all, thanks for all the wonderful comments on yesterday's shot – I love it when I put something up that I'm pleased with and it gets such a great response :-) And there were a few questions on yesterday's shot that I haven't answered yet – I'll put something up by way of response tomorrow.
The downside to all this though is that I have to put something up in its place ;-)
So, here's today's shot, which features a book (or extract from a book, or something similar) called Wild Animus. I'm not familiar with it – I googled the text from the photograph – so have no idea if it's a good book or not, but I did think it made quite an interesting photograph.
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Yes, you did make an astonishing photograph :). I haven't posted on the previous one so I do it here: anoter great photo. I am fascinated with it.
comment bydoffer at 09:55 PM (GMT) on 18 May, 2005
Really nice picture david! Really love the reflections of the sun on the book, makes the picture look alive :) Somehow you allways get the pictures right, and if the motive ain't no "good" you turn it into something interesting... Amazing, your pics are inspiring me and a lot of others!
comment byFellow Eskimo at 10:07 PM (GMT) on 18 May, 2005
I think it is a very intresting photograph, you always seem to catch those intresting things around you. While some would say they found trash in the sea, you found a photograph that others can enjoy. I like how the water ripples over the book. Its very intresting!
comment bySmallest Photo at 10:27 PM (GMT) on 18 May, 2005
I think it makes an exceptional subject. I love the interaction of the book with the water. Really a wonderful composition.
comment byfraxinus at 10:37 PM (GMT) on 18 May, 2005
Part of the attraction of your site is that around every corner, often with every post, is variety and surprise. In a way this picture is just as mysterious and evocative as yesterday's, but it will perhaps appeal to a different audience.
For me, it is reminiscent of a lot of 'text-based art' particularly prevalent in the 1980s. But here it is 'found' rather than contrived and I find it a lot more visually appealing than much I saw on gallery walls at that time.
I can see the Mt. Wrangell, mentioned in the book, from my window.
In fact, it can be seen in this picture as a dim shape, right under the northern lights. :)
http://maximaging.blogspot.com/2005/05/midnight-star-dance.html
comment byLiisa Anderson at 12:10 AM (GMT) on 19 May, 2005
I am a booklover so my heart bleeds seeing this ... but then ... it makes a great photo and set off a lot of questions and thoughts ... very nice!
comment by Carson at 12:12 AM (GMT) on 19 May, 2005
Like your work!!!! The reflection series outstanding!!! Wish I could take pics even half as good as you.
David, I've been lurking round here for a week or so now and your images are genuinely inspirational to me. I lap up every morsel of information you provide about your post-processing and have a go at replicating the effects myself but it's the choices you make when you frame each photo in your viewfinder that inspire me the most - after all that's half the battle! Anyway, just thought I'd say hello and add my voice. This photo reminds me, oddly, of a piece of music called Montok Point by 'Strange Cargo' in which a voice intones fragments of a story about nameless people under a minimalist, faintly threatening, electronic melody.
I love it! :)
comment byaashish at 12:38 AM (GMT) on 19 May, 2005
a really nice one.. looks lovely
comment by Michael at 12:43 AM (GMT) on 19 May, 2005
Excelent photograph.
In case no one here is currently enrolled in a high school latin course I'm here to help! "Animus" means spirit or mind, if that is interesting at all...
comment byBlackpupil at 01:44 AM (GMT) on 19 May, 2005
A powerful shot! I like it very much!
comment by Eduardo Polite at 02:30 AM (GMT) on 19 May, 2005
Yo no hablo mucho Ingles pero tus fotos son muy buenas. Que bien, que guay, me amenizan la noche. Polite
comment by thisisme at 03:56 AM (GMT) on 19 May, 2005
interesting...looks like its set up tho, youv'e had better
Just discovered your site via a metafilter post. Wonderful stuff!
That's odd - someone was handing that book out for free at SXSW in Austin this year. I still haven't picked it up.
comment by jcyrhs at 08:33 AM (GMT) on 19 May, 2005
it's fantastic. Love the colours and the composition...
I like the shadows in this picture... excellent!
Fantastic site to start with, only just recently latched onto it but loving the imagery so far and for some reason this really stands out to me hence the 1st post...
Hi. I've read that book - didn't enjoy it that much but again the interesting thing is how i came across it.
I was given a pre-release copy by a beautiful girl named Marija in a bookshop in Rijeka, Croatia. I was only there for a couple of days while travelling last summer. I didn't think much of the book and thus didn't expect ever to hear of it again, til it washed up on Chormasia :)
comment bywookiee at 06:53 PM (GMT) on 20 May, 2005
If there's one book that deserves to be chucked into the sea, it's Wild Animus. I got it free from bookcrossing.com and felt like I wasted my money on it.
Beautiful shot - wonderful tones and very evocative.
comment by Robby Bobby Borton at 11:30 PM (GMT) on 31 July, 2005
I love coming across this book here on your blog. Sort of magical. So this author must have had way to many printed cause one day i was walking down haight st. in San Francisco and a guy was just handing them out to passerbys -- bam bam bam -- hundreds of books. It sat around then i found it when i was between books -- i sort of liked it though it was nothing really inspirational.
But here people have come across it: Washed up! In Croatia! All over the place... very interesting detritus. BEAUTIFUL PICTURES THANK YOU!
First of all, thanks for all the wonderful comments on yesterday's shot – I love it when I put something up that I'm pleased with and it gets such a great response :-) And there were a few questions on yesterday's shot that I haven't answered yet – I'll put something up by way of response tomorrow.
The downside to all this though is that I have to put something up in its place ;-)
So, here's today's shot, which features a book (or extract from a book, or something similar) called Wild Animus. I'm not familiar with it – I googled the text from the photograph – so have no idea if it's a good book or not, but I did think it made quite an interesting photograph.
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Someone chucked in the sea? I hate it when people do that to books... seems like sacrilege. Good pic though!
Yes, you did make an astonishing photograph :). I haven't posted on the previous one so I do it here: anoter great photo. I am fascinated with it.
Really nice picture david! Really love the reflections of the sun on the book, makes the picture look alive :) Somehow you allways get the pictures right, and if the motive ain't no "good" you turn it into something interesting... Amazing, your pics are inspiring me and a lot of others!
I think it is a very intresting photograph, you always seem to catch those intresting things around you. While some would say they found trash in the sea, you found a photograph that others can enjoy. I like how the water ripples over the book. Its very intresting!
I think it makes an exceptional subject. I love the interaction of the book with the water. Really a wonderful composition.
Part of the attraction of your site is that around every corner, often with every post, is variety and surprise. In a way this picture is just as mysterious and evocative as yesterday's, but it will perhaps appeal to a different audience.
For me, it is reminiscent of a lot of 'text-based art' particularly prevalent in the 1980s. But here it is 'found' rather than contrived and I find it a lot more visually appealing than much I saw on gallery walls at that time.
grrooovy shit. great find~
I meant shot...actually I was thinking shit and thought I would censor myself....no luck :)
I can see the Mt. Wrangell, mentioned in the book, from my window.
In fact, it can be seen in this picture as a dim shape, right under the northern lights. :)
http://maximaging.blogspot.com/2005/05/midnight-star-dance.html
I am a booklover so my heart bleeds seeing this ... but then ... it makes a great photo and set off a lot of questions and thoughts ... very nice!
Like your work!!!! The reflection series outstanding!!! Wish I could take pics even half as good as you.
Again beautiful shot. An open message in a botle perhaps. Well done with great light.
David, I've been lurking round here for a week or so now and your images are genuinely inspirational to me. I lap up every morsel of information you provide about your post-processing and have a go at replicating the effects myself but it's the choices you make when you frame each photo in your viewfinder that inspire me the most - after all that's half the battle! Anyway, just thought I'd say hello and add my voice. This photo reminds me, oddly, of a piece of music called Montok Point by 'Strange Cargo' in which a voice intones fragments of a story about nameless people under a minimalist, faintly threatening, electronic melody.
I love it! :)
a really nice one.. looks lovely
Excelent photograph.
In case no one here is currently enrolled in a high school latin course I'm here to help!
"Animus" means spirit or mind, if that is interesting at all...
A powerful shot! I like it very much!
Yo no hablo mucho Ingles pero tus fotos son muy buenas. Que bien, que guay, me amenizan la noche. Polite
interesting...looks like its set up tho, youv'e had better
Just discovered your site via a metafilter post. Wonderful stuff!
That's odd - someone was handing that book out for free at SXSW in Austin this year. I still haven't picked it up.
it's fantastic. Love the colours and the composition...
I like the shadows in this picture... excellent!
Fantastic site to start with, only just recently latched onto it but loving the imagery so far and for some reason this really stands out to me hence the 1st post...
Keep 'em coming...
no warriers.
Fabulous shot!
i got this book on a street corner in boston for free. i cannot believe that you found it in the ocean.
amazing.
Thanks everyone :-)
lovely mysterious image.
Hi. I've read that book - didn't enjoy it that much but again the interesting thing is how i came across it.
I was given a pre-release copy by a beautiful girl named Marija in a bookshop in Rijeka, Croatia. I was only there for a couple of days while travelling last summer. I didn't think much of the book and thus didn't expect ever to hear of it again, til it washed up on Chormasia :)
If there's one book that deserves to be chucked into the sea, it's Wild Animus. I got it free from bookcrossing.com and felt like I wasted my money on it.
Lovely shot.
For some reason it evokes sadness, not sure why.
Beautiful shot - wonderful tones and very evocative.
I love coming across this book here on your blog. Sort of magical. So this author must have had way to many printed cause one day i was walking down haight st. in San Francisco and a guy was just handing them out to passerbys -- bam bam bam -- hundreds of books. It sat around then i found it when i was between books -- i sort of liked it though it was nothing really inspirational.
But here people have come across it: Washed up! In Croatia! All over the place... very interesting detritus. BEAUTIFUL PICTURES THANK YOU!