By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Movement.
Ice skaters at the Wollman Rink in New York City’s Central Park (and a welcome reminder that the city will cool down, eventually…)
Other nice interpretations of “Movement”:
- yi-ching lin photography
- Observations
- Face in a Crowd
- blueberriejournal
- SimplySage
- Reality Dispelled
- Tamar’s art lounge
- David R Wetzel Photography
- Birds n bugs’s Blog #1
- Birds n bugs’s Blog #2
- The Wanderlust Gene
- veronika hjorths bilder
- A year in the Life
- A Word in Your Ear
- beyondpaisley
- Cee’s Life Photography Blog
- Creativity Aroused
- Light Words
- FrizzText
- Stephen Kelly Creative
- Broken Light
- Four Deer Oak
- Even A Girl Like Me
- Lucid Gypsy
- Without Strings Tied
- The Positive Page
- Today’s Post by Eleanor Marriott
- Viewpoint
- MDCPhotos
- jmeyersforeman photography
- 4otomo
- Learning to See Light
- Form Your Troika
- smurrfie’s attempt at her creative side :)
- 365 Photo Project
- beeblu blog
- Looking Through a Lens
- Riccio Photography #1
- Riccio Photography #2
- Eldy’s Photo Blog
- The Quotidian Hudson
Vladimir Brezina
Johna Till Johnson
I love the effect of the long exposure; it gives the skaters a sort of grace that would be difficult to capture otherwise.
Actually, it started off being accidental—there simply wasn’t much light, and the camera did its own automatic thing. But I realized the potential…
Love these photos. So right for the theme.
:-)
Lovely reminder and definitely full of movement! :)
I like the way some of the skaters, who were just then moving less, are more sharply defined, while others are very fluid…
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I like the idea of cooler weather coming eventually. :-) The photos are very definitely full of movement!
As I belatedly reply to your comment, cooler weather has already arrived—one just has to wait long enough…
Lovely photos
Similar idea to your own “Movement”!
Great photos illustrating movement. Since I got my video camera, I hardly ever take photos anymore that show movement. If movement is involved, I just take a video, but now I think I will go back to taking still photos of movement.
A very good point!
The interesting challenge is to show movement in a still photo. And, looking at what other bloggers have posted in response, it seems that there are two popular approaches. Both convey the idea of movement through a difference in sharpness between the subject and the background. In one case the background is sharp but the subject is not (long exposure), in the other the subject is sharp but the background is not (pan)…
very nice. like star trails only with people.
:-) I never thought of it that way! Thanks, Honie!
Fun! And OMG but it’s so nice to see ice skaters right now; me and the heat are not friends. ;)
Me and the heat are outright enemies, actually…
Great subject for this technique – bright colors against a field of white – the last one could be a painting!
A fortunate coming-together of colors! :-)
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Great action shots.
Thanks, Naomi!
Nice choices for this week’s challenge. I especially like the last one — it looks like a painting. It’s much cooler today in the MidWest, so cooler weather is likely headed your way. And I can’t remember I time when I thought that “cooler” meant 85, but even that is a relief to the 106 we had the other day!
Thanks so much for sending the cooler weather! It’s cooled nicely down to the 80s in NYC as I type this…
Stunning photos!
Thanks!!
Yes, winter will come soon enough. Nice photos :)
“Winter will come soon enough.” Are you channeling J.R.R. Martin? ;-)
Amazing photos!
Thanks!
Oh, I love these busy, colorful pictures of people moving!
… all going round and round, packed into a small space in true New York fashion :-)
Love the ‘impressionistic’ look.
The photos became more impressionistic as the light faded and the exposure became longer…
Ah.. that’s the how you captured it! Reminds me of a Lowry painting…
Lowry? Very much so (although I didn’t think of it until you suggested it). He also had fields of dark “matchstick” figures on white backgrounds…
Love your pictures! By the way, thanks for stopping by my blog. http://www.segmation.wordpress.com
You are most welcome!
Nice collection. The more movement shown, the more the pictures look like paintings. Thanks for the pingack, too.
I loved your “Movement”!
Gorgeous. They look like paintings.
As I played with them more, that soon became the idea…
There’s a feeling of vertigo to these amges. Perfect for movement ….
Vertigo? Yes, I do see what you mean…
perfect!!!
Thanks so much, Stephen!
Such a great idea for this week’s challenge! Beautiful.
Thanks so much, Naomi!
That there is the chaos I feel inside when I try ice-skating ;)
:-) It seems everyone around you on the ice-rink is feeling it too!
so beautiful! i need this cooling down reminder, too! (smile)
Thanks, yi-ching! And it worked—it’s cooler now…
WOW – these are like paintings, I love the way the orange is so bright.
:-) Actually not a very different idea from your own “Movement”, when you think about it…
Great shots!
Thanks so much!
That rink looks a bit too crowded for my taste… :)
This is New York City! The more famous rink at Rockefeller Center is even more crowded….
Just read from some other commenters that you’ve been freshly pressed. Congratulations!
Thanks, Cardinal!
Great movement shots! :-)
Thanks, Elizabeth!
WOW!! :)
:-) :-)
FANTASTIC!
Thank you!!