Sebastien's Photography Thread

So cool.

Oooh, I should tell my sister. ... If she's still gonna be living in the same place in a few years.

Plans are already in the works for me and mine to be in the path, near the middle of that map-- southern tip of Illinois.

It's friendlier without that Eye of Souron...

Prometheus is right.

Not kidding, is there somewhere I can get a nice high-res of The Wall? My triple monitor setup thanks you in advance.

Hiding In Plain Sight

(that title made me think of Eddie; suddendoty.jpg)

There's a recurring theme in what I search for in photography, what we can't reach. This is a feeling I often get while contemplating high mountains. They always seem to me to be a universe of their own, hiding in their huge scale. It's very similar when I look at galaxies : they're finite objects we can more or less absorb with a single glimpse of the eye, but they hold billions of elements, maybe life, way beyond our grasp. Our imagination has the ability to make them infinite.

(this after-the-fact comment is actually the closest I've yet come to explaining such a feeling. I'm self-stealing it for my Facebook page.)

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Hurlement (Howling)
 

Throwback to a night out in the wild during a stay in Savoie in 2016, and a powerful sunset on the mountains looming over us. It took us a while to realize the biggest one in the distance (not pictured here) was Mont Blanc. We didn't recognize it from that unusual angle.

I actually processed that picture back in '16 but never published it. I gave it a finishing touch two days ago and sit for a while in front of it, trying to put into words how the scene made me feel. I was recalled of that feeling that the mountains were angry and spitting a fire before going to sleep. A "deafening silence" as I call it, followed by a quiet emptiness. It certainly was a memorable bivouac for us.

Last edited by Saniss (2019-04-09 10:25:18)