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Babylon
Babylon
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Location: Queens, NYC
Date: Nov 15, 2018
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/75
Date Uploaded: Nov 16, 2018

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Comments: 6
Favorites: 1 (view)

 From the sidewalk looking into the window at a nail salon. The vertical lines are decorative strands inside the window. The lights are a row of hanging lamps within.
I called it "Babylon" because the vertical lines remind me of hanging gardens, the lamps like flowers, and there's an interesting cheeriness to it, I feel. And it's a city. I was also pulled towards another take, thinking of naming it "Baghdad" or "Shock and Awe". The lights also remind me of the rockets and bombs lighting up the sky over Baghdad when the US first attacked Iraq. Funny how things can go either way.

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 11/18/2018 12:21:28 PM
Like a tightly grained piece of wood, the vertical strands flattens the scene into one plane. Interesting effect!
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 11/18/2018 10:39:30 AM
I love how much this glistens. It doesn't feel decadent to me. It's too light to be decadent.
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 11/17/2018 05:08:17 PM
Thank you for sharing such a wondrous image. Multi-layered in its being and in its interpretations, one could even say it includes a tower of Babel.
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 11/17/2018 12:05:21 PM
Wow, talk about different ends of the spectrum with your thoughts on this. The 'strands' could be silks on a loom, the image will only be complete once the shuttle has finished its horizontal weaving.
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 11/17/2018 11:13:02 AM
I especially like the space between the buildings - the rectangular shape with its irregular outcroppings (or incroppings if there's such a word and depending on how you look at it) - and the subtle interest of the reflections.
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 11/16/2018 11:42:13 PM
really nice - you, PennyStreet, and mariuca ought to go on a photo walk together sometime :)
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