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Published: 2014-08-31 17:05:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 928; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 0
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Taken in London with a fisheye lens.I don't have much to say about this piece. As always though, I look forward to your thoughts and opinions.
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I agree that it is quite interesting!
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Your use of the fisheye lens si definitely interesting - seems more about the composition of the piece than just cramming "more stuff" into the frame. Β Or a way to provide an alternate perspective / say something specific. Β Very interesting.
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I do like to think that I think about the composition of the piece, and how the fisheye effect can add more to the piece. Having said that, I am also guilty of using the fisheye just to provide an alternate perspective.
Thank you very much though!
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Alternate perspectives are also healthy!
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Yes! Perhaps not all the time, but definitely worth a consideration most of the time.
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And sometimes just worthwhile to experiment with a technique, too.
Whatever the plan was here, it works for me in the end.
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That is very true. I do believe in experimenting where art is concerned. It could lead to progress.
Indeed! That sounds like a great one!
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Or if not progress, at least learning!
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I like to think we are always learning! Or, certainly, we should be?
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That is what I hope!
Most of the time, anyway....
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Some days that seems tiring, I admit - but rewarding most of the time.
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Yes, I agree with you! Can't take the good without the bad.
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But when the good outweighs the bad, so much the better!
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Definitely! Those times are the good times indeed.
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Stunning curves created by mankind, like a ladder to the sky, with a few twists & turns thrown in
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Indeed! I do think that mankind aims to reach for the sky with structures like these.
It'd be quite a ride to go down it.
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Those are some pretty imposing buildings
And the one at left looks strangely paper-thin.
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Cities have a lot of skyscrapers.
Yeah, I don't think it was paper thin, but maybe the camera just captured it that way.
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Mine doesn't have that many
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I too like the diagonal lines, it adds an exaggerated perspective and makes it seem more intense in a way. The colors in the sky are great too, it kind of shows a balance between what is nature and what's man-made
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Yes, I see where you are coming from!
Thank you very much! It is an interesting contrast between man and nature.
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That diagonal compositional line that is so often in your works is present here too (going from the bottom left corner to the top right) - but I think the lines going counter to it really bring this out, and give it a futuristic feel. Maybe even dystopian (with the blue tone)? Really nice use of the fish-eye yo 
A shot from 2011 
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Yeah, I think I am a big fan of that.
Indeed! I did type in futurustic in the tags.
Thank you!
Yeah, it was done using an older fisheye that I am intending to sell. I bought the newer fisheye a year or so after that.
2011 is pretty old.
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Subconsciously, what do you think it is that draws you to long sweeping diagonal lines?
I did type in futurustic in the tags.
THINK SINKS!
You haven't sold that fisheye yet?
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I wouldn't know what my subconscious thinks. Perhaps the long, sweeping diagonal lines carry a sense of elegance or freedom or something that is particularly attractive about it.
I haven't sold my lenses yet, no. I do want to sell them before I come to the US.
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That's why you should meditate - to draw out these subconscious drives and to understand and control them 
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No time to meditate.
What if those subconscious drives appear in my dreams?
Yes, exactly! There is a certain rollercoaster feel to it.
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Psshhh have to make time to meditate 
Rollercoasters, ew Β
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Many things appear in my dreams.
You should try a virtual one.
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I do wonder if getting on a virtual rollercoaster would result in the same sort of queasiness (I imagine it will) - my theory is that since I'm trying to look at everything (like the trees, the horizon, other rides in the park) I get dizzier than those that just close their eyes on the ride.
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Hmm.. I guess. Did you try to close your eyes, though?
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No, eyes wide open yo - it was weird - I always wanted to see everything, and I honed on details quite a distance away
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Yeah.. perhaps you should try doing it with eyes closed to see if that's any better. It's a shame you didn't do that at least once.
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You could have done it at least once!
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I can try going blind on a 3d roller coaster
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