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Beautiful Pollution
Beautiful Pollution
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Progress (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Nikon D50
Location: top of Liberty Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri
Date: Jul 6, 2006
Aperture: 8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Architecture
Date Uploaded: Jul 6, 2006

 I love my city, but I hate the haze it creates via pollution. I took this on top of the 270+ ft memorial of WWI.

Just crop, resize, desaturate and levels.

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Place: 76 out of 152
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 07/19/2006 03:20:49 AM
To answer some of the questions. I didn't do it in color because we are in a drought and the grass was half brown.

The sky is washed out due to pollution and heat.

My point that I was going for was, the city as a whole is a pollution product yet it looks beautiful.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/18/2006 04:11:24 PM
The pollution is not shown in this photo, despite that the black and white colors make a nice panoramic view for the city.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/18/2006 03:58:55 PM
Awesome idea, but it's washed out and unfocused
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/18/2006 03:46:25 PM
Not sure the idea/theme gets communicated as powerfully as it could in this shot. Interesting idea though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/18/2006 01:33:22 AM
Foreground range of gray is nice. Background a little washed out. Crop out a little sky.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/16/2006 01:31:46 AM
Sorry mate... Didn't really click for me..
The title is a little tricky...
Wanted to say that... "how could pollition be beautiful"?
but... at second look.. I think I got what you meant..
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/15/2006 08:30:40 PM
Nice cityscape. Not sure where you're going with the title but I do like the shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/15/2006 07:39:47 PM
don't you wish Liberty Memorial was open at sunrise or sunset?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/15/2006 05:30:29 PM
It looks like a clear day to me. Unless you mean the pollution of the buildings covering up what once was wild land? If that's the case, good job!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/13/2006 07:41:21 AM
why is this not in color ?
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 07/12/2006 05:25:07 PM
Very nice. The park at the front guides me towards the CBD nicely.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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