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Published: 2004-04-15 16:35:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 602; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 25
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Description Taken at El Mirage Dry Lake, Southern Cal, Kodak DC280 Digital, processed in Photoshop.
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Comments: 17

jenpapercuts [2007-02-13 00:21:49 +0000 UTC]

gasp.....I think I am in love with this pic... beautiful, stark, simple, elegent composition (the cloud is just RIGHT!!). This works like a really good abstract painting but better as you know it is a slice of reality. This is really good - you deserve to be featured in b&w!!!!!!!!

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AnimAlu In reply to jenpapercuts [2007-02-13 16:03:28 +0000 UTC]

Thanks very much! This shot was not processed until a few years after I took it...It took some time for me to figure out what to do with it

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SebastienTabuteaud [2007-02-07 11:11:18 +0000 UTC]

You've been featured !! [link]

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AnimAlu In reply to SebastienTabuteaud [2007-02-07 16:30:38 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the feature!!

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florapudelkova [2006-10-27 18:19:48 +0000 UTC]

Great!

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AnimAlu In reply to florapudelkova [2006-10-29 16:54:13 +0000 UTC]

Appreciated!

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PeggyArmstrong [2006-09-25 20:54:04 +0000 UTC]

can you tell me a little more about this picture I'm looking at it and intregued as to what tempted you to take it or the message behind it???

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AnimAlu In reply to PeggyArmstrong [2006-09-25 22:33:50 +0000 UTC]

Sure, whenever I'm taking pics at a dry lake location, I'm always looking for simple subjects. Here, it was a motorcycle track in the dry mud, with the cloud in the background. I took the photo, but I didn't actually process it until a couple of years later. I'm always going back and looking at older photos in my archive. This one didn't strike me in the beginning, but only later, after looking at it for a while did I decide that there was something there. At the time I took the photo, I must have seen it as "worth taking", but it wasn't until later that I understood what to do with it.

As far as a message, there really is none. It's all about the simple shapes. If I had to force a message, it would be that really interesting things in life can be found in the most unlikely of places, or that many interesting things in life go unnoticed until they are somehow isolated from all of the background noise.

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PeggyArmstrong In reply to AnimAlu [2006-09-26 18:12:07 +0000 UTC]

thanks i like it when somone actually gives me a discription it's a really well done photo as well

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AnimAlu In reply to PeggyArmstrong [2006-09-26 18:55:03 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome

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Simanion [2006-09-25 16:51:07 +0000 UTC]

Awesome, its like the surface of the moon, looking out into endless nothingness

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B-Hart [2006-08-08 11:33:17 +0000 UTC]

The cloud could have been bigger but you couldn't do anyhting about it..

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Proxicon [2006-07-25 19:41:19 +0000 UTC]

At first it looked like the moon

Very great shot.

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Sunkma-nitu-tanka [2006-07-25 18:16:40 +0000 UTC]

i like this one, playing with shadows and contrast

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anemotionalfailure [2006-07-25 17:20:19 +0000 UTC]

wow, amazing pic
so simple, it's clean but so effective!

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snader [2004-04-15 17:45:02 +0000 UTC]

I've never seen anythind like this before! You could almost pass this off as the moon (well, maybe except for the cloud ). Amazing.

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AnimAlu In reply to snader [2004-04-15 17:48:57 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad you like it! The line in the mud there is actually a motorcycle track, which I burned slightly in Photoshop.

Jeff

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