So, the images above are all from the day [8/28] I drove down to Louisville, KY with the family for my aunt's wedding, whom I was going to be the photographer. We took a different way than usual and took the interstate 275 which loops all the way around Cincinnati going into Indiana and then into Kentucky. It was 7:30am and the morning sun was heating up the rivers and marshes that spread throughout the whole area and created HUGE cloud masses. I've never seen anything quite like it before. These images were point-n-shoot shots. I timed it just right to shoot inbetween the beams on the bridge to capture the Duke Energy Power Plant (the main supplier of energy to the city of Cincinnati) being engulfed in fog. I didn't have time to stop the car and make it onto the skinny bridge myself with my tripod as we had a time crunch to get to Louisville before 10am! With it being a 2 hour drive, it made it quite impossible. I'll have to make my way back to this place again and try to recreate sharper images :) Although, the film-like quality they turned out to have seems to shed a beautiful uniquness of its own.
I still have all the shots from the wedding sitting in a folder waiting to be edited. My next off day I'm going to dedicate a lot of my spare minutes to mass editing. In other news, I found a game that I'm COMPLETELY addicted to. The game is called Spore for the PC and you control EVERY element of the game. Every creature, building, city... all of it completely customizable and your civilization keeps evolving from microscopic creatures to space traveling crusaders who can ultimately destroy the galaxy or befriend and expand new civilizations. It's crazy insane the amount of choices you have in this game.
Also my 365 day project is going great! My flickr account has been missing the attention. There's also still so much to get accomplished and moved around in the next couple weeks. I'm finding though the best way to get anything dont is to concentrate on one thing at a time and everything else can wait :] Otherwise, it just gets messier lol
Hooray for very little patience!
Brooke
4 comments:
The first shot is really cool, love the light & shadows on your mum's leather jacket. Your dad's sunglasses in the mirror just reminded me that I always wanted to do one of those cool face-in-the-mirror shots, preferrably while driving at night.
Saw a great inspiration for that while watching Copland the other night (I love those old Sylvester Stallone films haha).
Anyway, the fog in the other two pictures is just amazing... the way it comes down from the hills and into the river valley. Next time you visit Louisville stop somewhere around there and take pictures, please :-) I bet it looks awesome when the sun's coming up.
Looking forward to the pictures of the wedding.
The game sounds good but I guess I don't have enough time to play it lol.
btw: I think the black&white picture wouldn't have looked that good if it were a colour one... good choice!
Thanks :) When I was looking at the colored one, the lighting struck me in the exact places you mentioned [especially my mom's jacket] so I wanted to find a way to bring the strong contrasts out and there's no better way than to make it b&w for me.
I do want to go back and get some more pictures of the power plant. Could create some powerful images with the ideas I have.
Great minds think alike :-)
Yeah definitely, those places are cool. I'm planning to include some shots of power plants in my Travel / Germany series on my homepage too. But we don't have any river around here where you'd get to see such gorgeous fog!
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