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Blurry and Disconnected: Tales of Sink-Or-Swim Nihilism
Blurry and Disconnected: Tales of Sink-Or-Swim Nihilism
bspurgeon


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Challenge: Book Titles III (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Lens: Carl Zeiss 25mm f/2.8 ZF Distagon T
Date: Jan 21, 2012
Aperture: f/11
ISO: 50
Shutter: 67
Galleries: Black and White, Blur
Date Uploaded: Jan 22, 2012

 Taken in Palm Springs, California. Brief weekend vacation for my wife's birthday. Day 1 was interrupted by an abrupt wind storm with gusts reported up to 90mph.

Regarding the wall. I wanted an anchored frame in the foreground to aide in presenting the wind.

Statistics
Place: 54 out of 118
Avg (all users): 5.6695
Avg (commenters): 6.8750
Avg (participants): 5.6491
Avg (non-participants): 5.6885
Views since voting: 476
Views during voting: 226
Votes: 118
Comments: 15
Favorites: 0

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 01/30/2012 07:28:02 PM
I get it now. A feather duster farm.
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 01/30/2012 02:19:59 AM
this is amazing, Ben. God has only to whisper and everything turns into cotton candy.
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 01/30/2012 01:45:18 AM
Too funny, I actually thought they were some sort of chimneys or something like that and did not think they were trees. Amazing, and good timing.
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 01/30/2012 12:07:49 AM
love the twirls.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/29/2012 10:09:02 PM
wonderful long exposure effect. well caught!
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 01/29/2012 02:33:13 PM
The wall at the left edge detracts from the composition.
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 01/29/2012 03:57:54 AM
High winds in total silence.
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 01/28/2012 11:13:32 PM
I've never seen trees pirouetting like this!
voted earlier
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 01/27/2012 09:18:06 PM
I liked how the trees here look like little smoke stacks.
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 01/27/2012 08:09:28 PM
One of the most original photos I've seen so far on dpc.Very cool!I hope it's up there!
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 01/27/2012 05:15:51 PM
Wow. the trees look like smokestacks for some bizzarre underground factory complex. Excellent job of turning something that is normally an inconvenience into an assett, the day must have been quite windy! In normal circumstances, I would be upset with the result, but as far as the subject goes this is disturbingly appropriate and I love the juxtoposition between the empty yet well-organized pool deck, the "stacks," and the rugged mountains.
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 01/27/2012 01:39:18 PM
What a cool effect! Such a creative use of a ND filter, I find myself sitting and studying this photo.
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 01/23/2012 08:53:10 PM
It's a cotton candy farm!!
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 01/23/2012 07:34:52 PM
Wonderful, I wish you had of cropped the wall on the left, but still great pick.
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 01/23/2012 10:45:30 AM
Those trees are amazing, like little twisters dancing to some leafy tune.
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