I see it in a bit different way from Phil - maybe I'm just more of an optimist :). I love this shot because it reminds me of the first time I turned a corner in Paris and the Eiffel came into view - it was stunning and surprising, took my breath away, and gave me a second of vertigo. This scene captures that feeling perfectly. Great work!
thank you Ana and Phil! a conveyor belt of tourists...i like those words. that is what i was expressing here and in several other photos. i still have some more to post! most mornings i played a game of "beat the tourists" (of course, i'm not one!)...i got up and out early for the light, and for the space! but on Saturday when i took this there had been a problem with the metro and i got there just as 2 big tour busses pulled up and the tourists piled out and flocked towards the Eiffel Tower - another sight to tick off their list. as a very good friend once said to me, when life gives you lemons...make lemonade! so i did.
Ana is right, Ruth. This is a "different" approach to the standard Eiffel Tower shot. But it is more than just being different that makes it work as expression. By tilting it, you disorient the viewer, and by blurring it, you put the image in motion. The combination of disorientation and movement turns the image into a conveyor belt of tourists rushing back and forth to the Tower, as if by being in its presence they are somehow proving their own worth. You do here what you did so well in your satirical critique of the hordes of tourists descending upon the Mona Lisa. You make us all into robotic tourists here, captives of an illusion that travel is good for us. When, in fact, it might be just the opposite.
This one looks like an action photo! The tilt works very well here, but it's this strange "warp" effect that really makes the image unique. It's power is incredible and I feel like I am about to be sucked into the photo and the funny thing was that I had to hold on to my desk to be able to concentrate on your composition, because I was getting dizzy!
I welcome the different aproach to an eiffel tower shot. Great work.
Ana
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