Ralf, I like the detail in the first photo, the bridge and canal with the buildings in the background. It is a very 'matter of fact' representation of the scene, but compelling none the less. I feel invited to explore the details and wonder about the crossing. I don't feel the second photo translates as well. At 10,000 pixels wide, the detail must be enormous but it is lost on the screen. Furthermore, the buildings on both sides of the canal block the distant horizons. I think one of the pleasures of viewing your photos is marveling at those distant details. Regards, Bob S.
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Ralf R. Radermacher <fotor...@gmx.de> wrote: > Two more from this year's xmas holidays. > > Not many people know that the typical Flemish landscape extends from > Belgium well into Northern France. People even used to speak Flemish > there until the government in Paris put an end to this like they've done > with all regional languages in various French regions. By the early 20th > century, there were signs on the local schoolyards saying "It is > forbidden to spit on the ground and to speak Flemish!" > > Nowadays, everybody speaks French, but the unique wide-open landscape, > "le plat pays", known from Jacques Brel's famous song with "its > cathedrals as the only mountains" and "its sky so grey that a canal > hanged itself" remains. Here's a typical scene from les Attaques, a > village along the Canal de Calais: > > http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/mypics/841415/display/15743020 > > Next one is a stitched pano of a former sugar mill, a few miles further > up the same canal. 6 frames (portrait) stitched in PanoTools (the > resulting file is over 10,000 pixels wide): > > http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/mypics/855640/display/15746918 > > As usual, your comments and suggestions... :-) > > Ralf > > -- > Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany > private homepage: http://www.fotoralf.de > manual cameras and photo galleries - updated Jan. 10, 2005 > Contarex - Kiev 60 - Horizon 202 - P6 mount lenses > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
