panopticon // The violet umbrella

The violet umbrella | 18-10-2006 10:41:38

At last it's raining in Madrid. I can't believe we are in autumn until it rains, and as a child risen between trees and plants through years and years of dry seasons I love the rain.

So I had to take a picture of Madrid under the rain, which makes the city a lot more beautiful for me. I spent my work free time looking for puddles and water drops in tree's leaves, that kind of stuff, but at the end of the afternoon I found this reflection, and well, a reflection is a reflection and I seem to love them even more than the rain.

Lente: 26 mm | Apertura: f/4 | Velocidad: 1/20 sec | ISO: 1600

Categorías: @ madrid | portafolio | reflejo | urbana |

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I understand why you have flipped your image but I tend to prefer my reflections as reflections ie upside down. there are so many contradictory visual clues when you change the view point. This image looks so much more effective when I turn my laptop upsidedown. I know what you mean about rain. We feel the same when it stops!)

Alistair - Digiphotology @ 18-10-2006 15:15:28
I also meant to say, the only time I think it works to invert a reflection is when you have a virtual mirror image, without to much additional complicating information.
Alistair - Digiphotology @ 18-10-2006 15:18:18
So you go around turning your laptop upside down to see pictures!? Take care, a bad move can be expensive and painful...

Hmmm, I think I look reflections in a different way... When I shot a reflection I'm not aiming the reflection but the mirrored scene, so that's why I turn them upside down, because what I actually wanted to shot was that scene with the woman walking by with her umbrella through a rainy street. And the clues in the ground, well, they point you to the real perspective behind the picture, but from the perspective from the picture, if you know what I mean, the ground was in fact turned... and doing this I gained a point of view that was umpossible for me as even when Madrid have more holes than all the french cheeses together, there wasn't any one near (and they would had been half filled with water anyway).

I don't know, it works better for me in this way. It's like watching the scene looking up from below the ground, when in the way you suggest, with the original orientation, it would be just a shot to the ground, looking down.
David Ruiz @ 19-10-2006 15:58:05
BALADA DE OTOÑO
(Joan Manuel Serrat)

Llueve,
detrás de los cristales, llueve y llueve
sobre los chopos medio deshojados,
sobre los pardos tejados,
sobre los campos, llueve.

Pintaron de gris el cielo
y el suelo
se fue abrigando con hojas,
se fue vistiendo de otoño.

La tarde que se adormece
parece
un niño que el viento mece
con su balada en otoño.

Una balada en otoño,
un canto triste de melancolía,
que nace al morir el día.

Una balada en otoño,
a veces como un murmullo,
y a veces como un lamento
y a veces viento.

Llueve,
detrás de los cristales, llueve y llueve
sobre los chopos medio deshojados,
sobre los pardos tejados
sobre los campos, llueve.

Te podría contar
que esta quemándose mi último leño en el hogar,
que soy muy pobre hoy,
que por una sonrisa doy
todo lo que soy,
porque estoy solo
y tengo miedo.

Si tú fueras capaz
de ver los ojos tristes de una lámpara y hablar
con esa porcelana que descubrí ayer
y que por un momento se ha vuelto mujer.

Entonces, olvidando
mi mañana y tu pasado
volverías a mi lado.

Se va la tarde y me deja
la queja
que mañana será vieja
de una balada en otoño.

Llueve,
detrás de los cristales, llueve y llueve
sobre los chopos medio deshojados...
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