Post # 2 for today

This picture was taken the other day at a park near the causway for key biscayne. (although my tripod was in my car) I balanced my camera on my wallet, cell phone, and my girlfriends sudoku book, it took a few tries and some play with photoshop but it came out amazing.

The sky appears more like sunset then it really was since we went to the park expecting to catch sunset, however we realized that the park faces east (duh). So playing with a warming filter and keeping the luminosity this was the outcome.

Pollution the first true "post card" type picture I've taken, the trashcan just makes the surreal beauty of the beach just that much more real, and puts the effect of the human condition on the earth into perspect (and believe me, I'm no environmentalist). The composition itself is ironic, a beauty and the beast sort of irony or paradox.

I also dabble in the "lomo" effect (http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/how-to-make-digital-photos-look-like-lomo-photography/). I feel it gives a depth of emotion to the pictures. Like this one, for example Comin' Home, in post production this picture really reminded me of a song by City and Colour. Some of the lyrics are: "I've never been to Alaska, but I can tell you this,/I've been to Lincoln, Nebraska and hell you know it ain't worth shit/I've been through Nova Scotia, Sydney to Halifax/I'll never take any pictures cause I know I'll just be right back." I think that if i go back to this one ill redo the lomo and try to bring out the blue in the chairs with some over saturation.
What I think lomo does to this shot is it makes the Hyena look more vicious in its feeding. Entitled гиена (Hyena in Russian). Bellow Fate as you go up you go to where you belong... up top. Bottom left: City Escape