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Paradise Lost
Posted by Damon Schreiber (Toronto, Canada) on 6 July 2007 in Abstract & Conceptual and Portfolio.
Gotta get these dark themes out of my system. Love the darkness though.
Anyway, a real change of pace tomorrow, a really big project that's been a long time in the making.
High-res here.
[Wilson & Transit, Toronto]
Levine from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Simply superb shot you have here. The clouds, the plane, rays. Very dramatic sky.
6 Jul 2007 5:31am
allen from Philippines
great composition! B&W rocks! the looks so sad..a goodbye of some sort very dramatic
6 Jul 2007 6:01am
our little hood from bruges, Belgium
the fence makes all happen here, great job to translate this into B/W
robin
6 Jul 2007 10:17am
Babul Bhatt from Bombay, India
this shot plays lovely drama and the black and white makes it better...love the fences
6 Jul 2007 10:49am
Angry Buddha from Phoenixville, United States
Woah! Perfect backlighting and B&W. Great job here Damon. You don't know the power of the dark side.
6 Jul 2007 12:41pm
maivju:z from kyoto, Japan
That, my friend, is a winner. Like the title, love the image. Very nice work indeed.
6 Jul 2007 1:16pm
Alfredo J. Martiz J. from Tokyo, Japan
Great and dramatic photo, do you like the music of Paradise Lost?, the last cd In Requiem is excellent!
6 Jul 2007 1:22pm
Duncan Galbraith from Kyoto, Japan
Aye this is beautiful. Absolutely belting lighting and the silhouette is just divine. This looks like heaven itself opened up to your lens. This is bloody good man. In fact its more than that but Im trying not to use any offensive profanity. What a tonal range! love the barbed fence at the bottom, symbolizing our inability to access all that lies above those clouds...until the final darkness takes us there that is. I think I need to cheer up my blog a bit.....;)
6 Jul 2007 2:23pm
Anthony from Singapore, Singapore
your foto simply blown me off... awesome... wonderful B&W photography....
6 Jul 2007 3:03pm
Dawn Sutherland from Phoenix, United States
Damon, this is stunning. I don't mind the dark stuff at all, you capture it in a way that just moves people. Beautiful!
6 Jul 2007 3:51pm
Adam Brown from Dallas, TX, United States
i love this...very dramatic...awsome work....your other stuff is great too
6 Jul 2007 5:23pm
Nick Passantino from Bronx, United States
great dramatic capture here.. so many great aspects.. the fence, the tones.. they all come together really well. a real gem here damon
6 Jul 2007 11:02pm
Rags from Plano, United States
I think you are wrong. This is not a dark pic. It is a pic so full of hope! Though paradise seems lost, the sun has burst through a cloud bringing warmth to your image. All is not lost!
7 Jul 2007 3:18am
@Rags: Thanks, Rags! Well, it's not like I'm depressed or anything. But I still think it's a dark image. Yes, the sun has burst through the clouds, but the plane has left, and the viewer is stil behind the barbed wire.
Daniel from Olympia, United States
Acutually, this looks very hopeful to me. The plane is a means of escape and the sun blowing through the clouds alludes to better things to come.
7 Jul 2007 6:47pm
Stu from Kyoto, Japan
This is absolutely stellar! What an impact. Amazing lighting and theme suggested by the title. It's kind of ominous and hopeful at the same time. A real cracker of a shot, Damon.
8 Jul 2007 10:57am
Pentax K10D
1/1000 second
F/11.0
ISO 100
40 mm