Park with no name (6) by Helen Betts

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30-NOV-2013

Park with no name (6)

Even though I said in the previous (and below) picture it would be silly to post this, I am anyway because I like the way these unusual fountains look when they’re operating, which is almost never. Taken several years ago and never posted because, well, it was silly ;-).

Yet another fountain in the park with no name, posted earlier:

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 II
1/500s f/5.6 at 10.4mm iso3200 hide exif

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Nirvan Hope		12-May-2016 03:03
Not silly at all. The water patterns are an ethereal dance against the matrix of blue tiles.

carabias		11-May-2016 18:51
Magic photograph, Helen! V

Raymond		11-May-2016 18:21
In the desert, even more precious than oil, is water. To have fountains, man y of them, is a sign of ostentatiousness, showing off your richest when in the desert, you can have water flow uselessly everywhere! Imagine you are in the desert, well you are! and water flows ... wasting it to evaporation. just so you can hear it flow ... I call it ... how to waste your wealth ... soon enough, they'll be on their knees wanting to drink it to the last drop.

Jim Coffman		11-May-2016 16:58
I don't think it is silly! Very nice capture of this gentle flow!