a hat full of sky: pebbles spend the days staring at the sky

There's a sandy beach somewhere near where Leigh lives (or visits). No sandy beaches around here though, we only have pebbles - so sad. So here's a shot of a bunch of stones. I altered the colors a little to make them more interesting - but they still weren't interesting enough so I put this photo of a house+sky next to it, and came up with an explanation to go with this composition. And the explanation is that this could be interpreted as a metaphor of how I behave in life: like, most of the time I'm staring at the ground (in the sense of being limited in thinking what I can do and/or be) and trying to come up with ways to make the said metaphorical ground more interesting on a superficial level. But occasionally I look up at the sky (in the sense of expanding my views, thinking about taking bold actions blah blah blah), only to find my view partially blocked by tall houses and buildings (i.e. metaphorical obstacles which eventually cause me to become discouraged and blah blah blah). But it's a stoopid explanation, and it's not true anyway: the houses and buildings around here are hardy tall at all.
I really just like how the colors turned out here, and the contrast between the multitude of shapes of the stones and the more flat spaces in the right half of the image.

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« prev · home · next » There's a sandy beach somewhere near where Leigh lives (or visits). No sandy beaches around here though, we only have pebbles - so sad. So here's a shot of a bunch of stones. I altered the colors a little to make them more interesting - but they still weren't interesting enough so I put this photo of a house+sky next to it, and came up with an explanation to go with this composition. And the explanation is that this could be interpreted as a metaphor of how I behave in life: like, most of the time I'm staring at the ground (in the sense of being limited in thinking what I can do and/or be) and trying to come up with ways to make the said metaphorical ground more interesting on a superficial level. But occasionally I look up at the sky (in the sense of expanding my views, thinking about taking bold actions blah blah blah), only to find my view partially blocked by tall houses and buildings (i.e. metaphorical obstacles which eventually cause me to become discouraged and blah blah blah). But it's a stoopid explanation, and it's not true anyway: the houses and buildings around here are hardy tall at all. I really just like how the colors turned out here, and the contrast between the multitude of shapes of the stones and the more flat spaces in the right half of the image. pebbles spend the days staring at the sky · view 12 or post · I don't know why, but the two pictures work well together! posted by Sidney @ 3/5/07 00:25 · sweets or stones? an original diptic! posted by elaine @ 3/5/07 00:30 · Great combination of two pictures, it really suprised me! posted by riika @ 3/5/07 07:09 · cool composition and i like the tones of the pebbles. beautiful! posted by thomas mueller @ 3/5/07 11:05 · Nice colours. The diptyque wroks well. posted by sarto @ 3/5/07 13:44 · Beautiful tones. I especially like the colors in the left shot. posted by Regis @ 3/5/07 15:27 · cool - i really like the combination of the two shots. posted by kurt @ 3/5/07 18:51 · These two go well together in a surprising way, nicely done. posted by Jeff Ambrose @ 3/5/07 20:55 · Nice diptic with a cool crossed processing and a rendering such as an old polaroïd. Work well ! posted by Florian @ 3/5/07 22:00 · surprised by the composition... but the color tone make it work. interesting. posted by .:CushmoK:. @ 3/5/07 22:20 · do you know the photographer Krimhild Becker? she developed and explored the photographic diptych. posted by alek @ 4/5/07 18:04 · Funny combination of 2 shots, but it work very well. posted by Claus @ 4/5/07 18:09
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