Picture Envy No. 27

Bildbevis, More B/W Fog (Jun. 21, 2005). 

I got up extra early today just so I could feel extra tired.  It makes me grumpy and confused, which is precisely the gravitas I like to bring to a room. 

Well, not the theme for Picture Envy.  If it were, you'd be getting links to stuff like this (or this example of police taking down criminal masterminds) all the time. 

Fortunately, I'm going with bildbevis' More B/W Fog.  Bildbevis is apparently Scandanavian (or as I would normally say at this sleep-deprived hour, Scandermanavian), and has a thing for panoramic photos.  I particularly like this shot.  I think the ghostly tone is well served by a panoramic perspective.  I think, in fact, the same sort of "up the empty river" perspective was used in a few of the closing scenes of Apocalypse Now before Col. Kurtz' montagnard army was revealed. 

I don't expect that they have montagnards in Scandanavia. 

Or much in the nature of armies for that matter. 

They used to have Saabs, but we took that over. 

Perspective and ambiance drive this photo.  I like the way the border between sky and water has been defined nearly at the middle of the image.  Normally, I don't know if that would work, but I think that the balanced emptiness gives this shot something clinical. 

Emptiness, ghostliness, and, er, clinicalness. 

Not that this would remind me of my vocation or anything. 

Comments

[zombie]

Yes bildbevis is Swedish for Image Evidence. So it is indeed Scandinavian.

"They used to have Saabs, but we took that over."
We used to have Volvos as well - but you took that too. =)

Now all we got left in the car-business is http://www.koenigsegg.com/

"Normally, I don't know if that would work, but I think that the balanced emptiness gives this shot something clinical."

Yeah I know - been really tired my self and by the time I got the pictures ready to post i really didn’t think that much about the cropping - the sky is really just dull white because of the fog - and as you say - It makes the images look really quiet and empty. (It WAS)

Thanks for commenting my images! Keep up the good work!
/Zombie - Fredrik - Bildbevis.se

[TPB, Esq.]

Zombie, it's a great shot. It made me think of Conrad's description of going up the river in Heart of Darkness.