yes, surprised and pleased. i had been taken pictures of something else and i turned around, saw this and said to myself ‘what the heck’ and snapped one photo (usually i take five, six, seven photos of something hoping i get something to work with).
I use the web photo editor PicMonkey. Usually i try to avoid using to much special editing, but for this one i used one of the programmed special effects (can’t remember which one actually because i was bouncing through a number of them, seeing which one worked best).
I grew up in Nebraska and it was nothing like this! 🙂 You set this up perfectly and the title and photo mesh smoothly. It wouldn’t have the same effect if you’d gone in closer.
Love this!! At first glance I thought it was a lighthouse in the middle of the sea. Then my eyes focused enough to see the mysterious doorway in the middle of a dreamscape, a possible way out (as per the title). But the building simply refuses to imprint on my conscious mind, so it isn’t even there for me…
pleased to hear that the building refusing to imprint on you mind…that is in one sense i had hoped with the desaturation of the photo…the building was there, but wasn’t there….a barrier, but undefinable, and as such an opposing force to the seemingly insignificant door. [i try to avoid using special effect editing on my photos unless there is a very specific reason why, so it is nice to hear that what was going on in my head translated to the photo]
Very cool
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thanks 🙂
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Which reminds me of the lone lighthouse keeper aka Moominpappa – but it was only “a phase he went through”:
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Wonderful composition and the desaturated look really works too. Well done 🙂
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Thanks 🙂
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SPLENDID!
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thank you much 🙂
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You have your own individual style – I like that!
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thanks for the compliment – i basically only have one demand for myself, which is to strive to be authentic, so your words are nice to read. 🙂
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Excellent
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thanks 🙂
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That is about as lone and lone can be there. Great shot!
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much thanks…what is to be discovered in the hinterlands 😉
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Oh my goodness, I’ve just noticed my typing errors. Hopefully you understood me better than I did 🙂
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understood fine…maybe think of less as errors and more as using one’s poetic license. 😉
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Sweet, thank you 🙂
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This is one of my favorite. 🙂
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pleased to hear…i was very pleasantly surprised how this one turned out, especially the hand rail.
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I can understand why you would be pleasantly surprised and hopefully pleased as well. It causes the viewer to take a second look. 🙂
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yes, surprised and pleased. i had been taken pictures of something else and i turned around, saw this and said to myself ‘what the heck’ and snapped one photo (usually i take five, six, seven photos of something hoping i get something to work with).
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It was meant to be. 🙂
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With the scale on my phone, this could be a mouse hole.
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maybe its a dormouse? 😉
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Nyuk, Nyuk!
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How’d you get it to look like that?
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I use the web photo editor PicMonkey. Usually i try to avoid using to much special editing, but for this one i used one of the programmed special effects (can’t remember which one actually because i was bouncing through a number of them, seeing which one worked best).
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🌟🌟🌟🌟
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🙂
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Reminds me of when I lived in Nebraska, Well done
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thanks….and maybe, probably a good example of why you left Nebraska? 😉
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One of many
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you seem to have any eye for uniqueness!!
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thanks for the kind thought….i’ve always been partial to the island of misfit toys 🙂
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well.. I think they are treasures only a artistic mind can see…
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🙂
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I can’t tell what this is, but it seems like something that would have been on the X-Files.
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from my visit to Area 51 😉
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😉
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Cool! Perfect image of your theme!
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thanks 🙂
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I grew up in Nebraska and it was nothing like this! 🙂 You set this up perfectly and the title and photo mesh smoothly. It wouldn’t have the same effect if you’d gone in closer.
janet
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thanks for the kind words. and for the record, it is on the edge of town in Lynden, Washington, near the Canadian border. 🙂
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Brilliant shot! That handrail really stands out, even from such a distance.
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yes, i was particularly pleased with the handrail when i finally was able to bring it up on the computer screen.
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Love this!! At first glance I thought it was a lighthouse in the middle of the sea. Then my eyes focused enough to see the mysterious doorway in the middle of a dreamscape, a possible way out (as per the title). But the building simply refuses to imprint on my conscious mind, so it isn’t even there for me…
Absolutely awesome shot! 🙂
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pleased to hear that the building refusing to imprint on you mind…that is in one sense i had hoped with the desaturation of the photo…the building was there, but wasn’t there….a barrier, but undefinable, and as such an opposing force to the seemingly insignificant door. [i try to avoid using special effect editing on my photos unless there is a very specific reason why, so it is nice to hear that what was going on in my head translated to the photo]
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It did translate… Powerfully! 🙂
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Such a tiny door comparatively!
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getting out is never easy 😉
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