P U R G A T O R Y ?

[flipfrog]

i know everyone has different opinions of photos....
to me, this is one of my favourite photos i have taken in a long time....
see what u think...

<b>"Purgatory"</b>

[sheepie]

Not much to say about this one except I like it

[sirhc55]

Dee - you are a master

[johndec]

Not much to say about this one except I like it

Except for: Are you allowed to win "Pic of the Week" two weeks in a row?

[xerubus]

Absolutely brilliant Dee... well done...

out of interest sake.. how was the stretching at the end of the rock wall done?

cheers

[Killakoala]

I feel a WOW coming on.

I really like this image. It is really well named too. It's stark, moody, cold, lonely and a study of depression.

Brilliant, i love it heaps. Well done..

[stormygirl]

WOW! This is fantastic, I love it! Well Done. (and congrats on winning pic of the week too!)

[MCWB]

Superb shot, talk about creating a mood! B&W suits it... do you have a colour original by any chance? Looking good for 2 in a row!

[leek]

I love it too Dee! Can you give us some hints on how you took / PP'd it?

[gstark]

Dee,

What Stormygirl said.

Also what Killalokoala said.

Xerberus too, for that matter.

Johndec: no.

[fozzie]

flipfrog.

Just love it. Nothing more to add.

ta ta for now (TTFN),

[boxerboy]

Just fantastic

[johndec]

Johndec: no.

In a way, that's a shame as it is a very striking image. One of the best I've seen here. But on the other hand we don't want "Picture of the Week" to turn into "Pro Photographers' Picture of the Week"

[Deano]

A truely awesome shot!

Cheers
Dean

[gstark]

John,

I agree, and more to the point, I also don't want it to become a showcase of x's work, whomever "x" might happen to be. While I recognise and accept the need to try to get the "best" image each week, something like that would devalue the intent, IMHO.

And again, the guidelines I've given the mods are pretty well wide open; I'm hoping that will encourage creativity in the selection process as well. To my mind, the selected photo needn't be "the best" , whatever that might mean, but should hopefully provoke discussion.

[Glen]

Great and striking image, Dee. Obviously the bus service in Vancouver is as bad as it is here

[ajo43]

Dee

you are fast becoming one of the 'ones to watch' on this forum.

What course are you doing?

[Geoff]

Dee - what everyone else said!

[BBJ]

What can i say, but WOW Certainly a good add for a lifeline, depression add.
Very creative, striking and this is what photography is all about the heart and soul of this picture tells it all.
Great work Dee.
Cheers
John

[ozimax]

Striking and haunting Dee.

Max

[flipfrog]

thank your for the kind comments people....

to answer some of your questions, this is actually my wife sitting in a little shelter that you find every 1 kilometer of a 5 km dike that goes out into the water in Richmond, like a break water i guess.....this was about half way out...on a foggy or unclear day you cant even see the end of the dike...kinda strange feeling as u walk into what seems like an eternal road to nowhere...
it was a foggy dark day to start with, but me and some friends were walking back and i just got Raychelyn to sit there and told her to put her head down (that was posed)... i shot a few shots, but already had an idea of what i was aiming for..dark and spooky....

when i got home and looked at the images, i then noticed how the structure that she was sitting in has a big cross on it..i was like WHOA!

someone asked what PP was done...i will post the original when i get home today, but basically i used PS to darken the sky a bit more and to darken my wife enough that she was nothing more than a sillouette...she was wearing a bright red sweater which probably wouldnt look great in such a dark image....other than that, i just converted to black and white.
that's about it...

as for school, im taking a digital photography course at a place called Focal Point here in Vancouver...its been a blast...learned alot, but still think the best way to learn is shoot shoot shoot. we did some model shoots yesterday, and i will post some nice images i made there when i have time......

anyways, sorry for such a long post...
i was quite excited with this iamge as well...something that i can look at for a while and it really makes my imagination go wild...

[mic]

I am speechless

Simply one of the best images I have ever seen.

I love it

Well done flipfrog, this sort of image is what I love.

Mic.

You should look at getting this one published, the name suits it so well as well.

Well done from start to finish.

[dooda]

Terriffic Dee. Love it. I've been on these roads before, but never seen the waves like that. Also, the road sort of dissipates. Is that the mist or something?

It's been interesting to see a lot of foggy and misty pics come up from the vancouver users of Flickr. I was anxious to see what you had. Unfortunatly the North Shore stayed clear of the fog for the most part.
There is a spooky group on Flickr. I'll send you an invite unless you already have one.

Are you in for Bball tomorrow?

Edit: One thing I notice with the D70 is a sort of layering or something when I darken the sky, I get these sort of channels of light to dark. Sort of tricky when you're trying to darken the sky. does anyone have any solutions to this problem?

[bwhinnen]

Amazing.

I'm very touched by this photo.

I like the title, it suits it well, cleansed of the effects of sin by time, the wind and sea foam before heading down the path to heaven.

Cheers
Brett PS no I am not religious and mean no disrespect to those that are.