h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This simply sums the "joy" of the winter commute, the shades of blue work exceptionally well.
The clouds provide an interesting highlight, I also like the way the red vehicle pulls the viewer into the image.

Well done

Thanks Bob, not bad through a rainy window!

That's how you got that effect, it looked very effective.
Have you sent any others.
I have sent a few of mine 5 should be more than enough they can have a choice.

I've sent a couple in too mate.

I love this pic, I'm really in it, I can hear the metallic tunnel sound with lights and barriers and the dawn blue is the ghost of the otherworld filtering into this world, cold glass of rainy windscreen, need coffee, early morning, atmospheric.

The ghost of the otherworld filtering into this world? Is this an incredibly pretentious observation, I ask myself? Yes! No! It's poetic, I insist. I think this is a very poetic photograph.

Good review CC its easy to see what you meant in your description

It is? Thanks Bob.

Yours soon for one of my reviews. mwhahah

I'm slowly working through all these wonderful photos, I've been away so running late, but I'll get there by springtime.

It's quite interesting, the idea of a photo speaking through some of the other senses, not just visual.

See, hear, smell, taste, touch.

Plus the sixth sense of course. Interesting to think of a photo inspiring intuition. Or clairvoyance. Actually, that's a bit daft. Or is it???

No not silly at all just look at a grandmother's face when she sees the first photograph of a new grandchild.

Ah yes! That's an interesting take on things.

Photos are a moment of forever. (To quote one of my favourite songs)
I'm loving this Post photo thread, amazing what people share and the different perspectives on what a "good" photo means to each of us.

Nothing's silly or daft when it comes to taking that shot. One of my favourites is a pic I took of the codes inside toilet roll tubes!

It'd be a boring world if we all viewed things the same way.

Yes! Yes! I love it. A moment of forever.

I so get that, about the codes inside toilet roll tubes.

I have times when I just take hundreds of pics, they are leading me, and I can't stop.

Maybe I'll take twenty pics of a scratch on a wall, which to me, in that altered state of photo moment, will become the key, the code, the expression I've been waiting for. I can't believe its there on the wall.

Later I might look at them and they're just pics of a scratch on a wall, and I'll chuckle, perhaps even delete them, but I will always remain loyal to the journey.




My first digital camera was a Ricoh compact, I still have it. It took me two weeks to attempt to learn the menus, then I gave up, and made them my own.

It had this setting called Text Mode which I didn't use for text. It was like basic black lines on white, I've later seen it in editing studios, called threshold or something.

So, during the difficult year in my life when both my parents were in terminal decline, I'd take hundreds and hundreds of these text mode pics, signposts and crucifixes and cafe signs and insects and roads and bricks, and the effect was exactly the frequency, the emotion, of my brainstate.

People would look at them and go huh? , because they are for the most part incomprehensible, and they're not entirely pretty. They look like black ink shapes colliding with white light.

I still have them in folders, they are my treasured music score of the time.