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October 19th 2007 06:53
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Scotland



I think I like the first photograph best today, it is a scene from Scotland, I like the colours, I like the symmetry, I like the harmony. I like its arrangement, it draws me to it and my eyes can't leave it.


The CNN. unfortunately just reminds me of sexual promiscuity and sex being divorced from out emotions and becoming merely an instinct, a primal need without much input from the cerebral cortex. I hate that.

However, it does tell a story and focuses on social problems and I'll leave you to work out those for yourself.

link to CNN shot of the day for condoms - oh, PLEASE

They look like lollipops and that makes me want to puke.

So it seems photos can also be used to provoke an emotional response.

National Neographic's photo, by contrast is rather colourless, but natural, and if you look at the bubbles you can delineate the contours, a bit like our brain.

Do you know why they are so convoluted and what that allows them to achieve.

And the only spot of brightness comes from the tiny fish. It is still a good photograph, ask yourself why.

Here's what Nat Geo had to say:

Goby and Bubble Coral, Indonesia, 2005

Photograph by Tim Laman

A goby fish with brilliant orange streaks stands out on a bit of gray bubble coral in Maumere Bay off Indonesia's Flores Island. In most of the ocean, turbid or murky waters force creatures to use nonvisual means of communication—smell, taste, touch, and sound.


But in the clear, sunlit waters of coral reefs, light abounds, vision predominates, and animals drape themselves in blazing color.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish," May 2005, National Geographic magazine)


link to National Geographic shot of the day - tiny fish and coral

And I'll leave you with those few words but large images for you to think about your photography skills.





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Comment by Miswanderlust

October 19th 2007 22:53
Love the National Geographic photos!
mis

Comment by katyzzz

October 19th 2007 23:08

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