I’m still whoring for viewers for electricana. Aside from a week’s inabilty to upload photos, I’ve managed to keep to my five-a-week goal, and remain optimistic about doing so.
So, what I thought I’d do at the end of each month is pick the top four photos, make some brief comment on them, and try and see if anyone’s willing to circulate it a little wider, on their own LJs and blogs. So, here you go. The code to reproduce this is under the cut tag, if anyone would like to pass it on, as it were. If people are seriously pissed off by the prospect of something like this turning up on their friends page once a month, I’ll filter/cut it, but I’d rather leave this as a public post. So…
Electricana: January ’05
Under Electric Light
It’s a simple enough shot, this one, but I like the combination of the lines of the brickwork, and the way they draw the eye down to the light, and the colours. And y’know, it’s a neon light. I love neon lights.
Awakening
Sometimes, you really don’t need to work to get a good photo. I work up early one morning, and the bands of colour in the sunrise did all the hard work for me.
Light of Knowledge
The reaction to this one caught me by surprise. I honestly felt that this was a “well, it’ll do” sort of shot – the composition is slightly off, and the light effect isn’t quite what I was looking for. But it seems people like it. Another one where the scenery did all the work.
An Otherwise Dull Day
Another neon sign, and another simple composition, but this time it’s the limited range of colours here that I like, the way that the neon sign stands out. It feels like quite a New York photo to me, which is odd as it was taken right beside Sloane Square tube.
Photos taken from Electric Arcana. Photos and text © 2005 Alasdair Watson. Permission granted to reproduce this post in whole, including this notice.
<p><b>Electricana: January ’05</b></p>
<p><b>Under Electric Light</b><br><a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/awatson/2945786/” title=”Photo Sharing”><img align=”left” src=”http://photos3.flickr.com/2945786_bd0ca4d546_t.jpg” width=”100″ height=”75″ border=”0″ alt=”Under Electric Light” /></a>It’s a simple enough shot, this one, but I like the combination of the lines of the brickwork, and the way they draw the eye down to the light, and the colours. And y’know, it’s a neon light. I love neon lights.
<p><b>Awakening</b><br><a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/awatson/3099598/” title=”Photo Sharing”><img align=”right” border=”0″ src=”http://photos3.flickr.com/3099598_b8c8126546_t.jpg” width=”100″ height=”75″ alt=”Awakening” /></a>Sometimes, you really don’t need to work to get a good photo. I work up early one morning, and the bands of colour in the sunrise did all the hard work for me.
<p><b>Light of Knowledge</b><br><a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/awatson/3549640/” title=”Photo Sharing”><img src=”http://photos3.flickr.com/3549640_6566878329_t.jpg” align=”left” border=”0″ width=”100″ height=”75″ alt=”Light of Knowledge” /></a>The reaction to this one caught me by surprise. I honestly felt that this was a “well, it’ll do” sort of shot – the composition is slightly off, and the light effect isn’t quite what I was looking for. But it seems people like it. Another one where the scenery did all the work.
<p><b>An Otherwise Dull Day</b><br><a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/awatson/3394260/” title=”Photo Sharing”><img src=”http://photos3.flickr.com/3394260_e05cd640df_t.jpg” width=”75″ height=”100″ align=”right” border=”0″ alt=”An Otherwise Dull Day” /></a>Another neon sign, and another simple composition, but this time it’s the limited range of colours here that I like, the way that the neon sign stands out. It feels like quite a New York photo to me, which is odd as it was taken right beside Sloane Square tube.
Photos taken from <a href=”http://www.livejournal.com/users/electricana”>Electric Arcana</a>. Photos and text © 2005 <a href=”http://www.black-ink.org”>Alasdair Watson</a>. Permission granted to reproduce this post in whole, including this notice.