Fly with Me, Vandusen Botanical Gardens, Vancouver, Canada, 2003 photo

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06-NOV-2003

Fly with Me, Vandusen Botanical Gardens, Vancouver, Canada, 2003

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This was my first attempt to abstract a subject by deliberately blurring it. I used a slow shutter speed to follow this bird's motion. I want this image to involve the imagination of all who see it. Think of speed, life, energy and time, and then fly with this bird!

Canon EOS 10D
1/20s f/8.0 at 188.0mm iso100 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto

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Phil Douglis		10-Oct-2004 20:23
****I commented on this image two months ago, and I still think it reminds me of how my teacher Frans Lanting might have also interpreted it. The purpose of abstraction is to involve the imagination your viewers, Jen, letting them do much of the work themselves. You strike a good balance here between conveying the nature of the subject yet also disguising it.

Phil Douglis		13-Aug-2004 03:48
Jenny, this image stopped me in my tracks this evening, and I was just about to leave a comment, when I noted that I had already left a comment -- eight months ago. Now I remember doing it -- Marek had sent me the link to this photograph. I did not know, however, that you had left a comment for me later that day -- I never saw it until tonight. A belated thank you for welcoming me to your site way back then. I am delighted to learn that you are an admirer of Frans and Galen. I travelled with both of them to the Bering Sea on a workshop in the summer of 2002, and spent many days photographing and exchanging ideas with both of them. I admire their work enormously. Frans produces the freshest and most substantive wildlife pictures of any wildlife photographer. and Galen was, along with Ansel Adams, the most skilled at expressing the meaning of nature through light. Nature and landscape photography were not my strengths -- my interest was always primarily in photojournalism and travel photography, but Frans and Galen gave me much knowledge and great insight into the patience required to capture nature at work. We also discussed the ethics involved in using captive animals as subjects without informing the viewer. Frans was, as you say, fanatic about honesty and truth in editorial contexts. And since both shot for National Geographic, shooting zoo animals was out of the question. Sadly, it was Galen's final workshop. He and his wife were killed in a plane crash on the way home. It was a tragic ending to a landmark event in my life as an expressive photographer. My eye was never the same again.

Jennifer Zhou		06-Dec-2003 19:09
Thanks to everyone for all your comments on this image! I really appreciate!! Phil: It is my honor having you here. I have been learning a great deal from you and your travel photograhy.I am really flatted by your nice comment. I know Frans Lanting and I admire him and his friend Galen Rowell very much. I know the photo you mentioned, Frans Lanting had spent three months in the field to get that real fresh wildlife photograph instead going to the zoo where many other photographers usually choose to go. That is what really makes the image. Best Regards. Jenny

Phil Douglis		06-Dec-2003 04:01
Jen, the only image I've seen of this type that can equal the beauty of this shot is one by Frans Lanting, a National Geographic photographer. A beautiful pan, as smooth and as light as flight itself. Phil

Guest		05-Dec-2003 23:45
I only regret I haven't caught up on your new work sooner. I promise to have a good look this weekend ;-)

Guest		07-Nov-2003 22:16
Jennifer - this is a beautiful photo, enhanced by wonderful effects. Wonderfully done! :)

Brian Lai		07-Nov-2003 11:09
fantastic art!

Pepe Zyman		07-Nov-2003 06:46
Beautiful colors and efect.

Guest		07-Nov-2003 06:00
Amazing. You have a gift!!

Guest		07-Nov-2003 04:27
relativity knows no bounds...

Guest		07-Nov-2003 04:18
Very cool effect! I really like it :p

Guest		07-Nov-2003 04:05
very good, you re quite a good photographer, you should dedicate to be a professional photographer ( if you´re not), congratulations, i always get amazed by your photos regards joao

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