The Day After - #1 by goodoleboy
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Ah yes, the day after a huge asteroid hits the earth, causing unbelievable destruction and havoc.
I'm probably in the minority, but I like disaster movies -- in fact, I like anything that goes fast and explodes, just as long as it isn't my car -- so this is my contribution to the genre.
Captured 3/8/07 at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, which contains 300 acres of restored wetlands, located in of all places, beautiful Huntington Beach, California. The reserve supports waterfowl such as avocets, egrets, plovers and the endangered least terns. I walked the entire 4-mile round trip dirt trail during my photo shoot, encountering nary a soul along the way. Hard to believe this is part of beautiful Huntington Beach.
Incidentally, just another folder of photos I've neglected. Say la vee.
Anyway, it was a bright sunny day, there was a lot of bayou type desolation, with dead trees, vertical branches, scrub brush, stumps, and wetlands to photograph, just perfect for Armageddon creations, so during the postwork I gleefully applied various Photoshop filters to the scenes for a dark, sober, post Apocalyptic effect. Postwork rules! Jocko, this is your kind of stuff! Enjoy!
Thanks for dropping by on this wonderful day!
Comments (19)
Ger50
such a wonderful mood
gs1953
Magnifica immagine dai colori irreali!
MrsLubner
I think you had entirely too much fun with this one. It really is quite marvelous. Your postwork is creative and has turned this photo into something very unique. The colors are probably not what I would have chosen but they work well with the mood set by the dreaded dead look of the place. The reflections are great and the highlighting done on the trees works well. And, oh, I happen to like Huntington Beach a lot...used to be one of my favorite places to go in that area. Also liked Laguna Beach and Costa Mesa and I'm sure I'll think of a couple more places down south that I enjoyed when I lived down there. :-) If I remember, there used to be some off-shore drilling platforms that lit up at night around there. I liked seeing them out on the water like that. Don't know if they are still there. Ya never know about progress...
sessan53
Wow.. this is excellent... Fantastic... 5+:-)
jocko500
wonderful looking place here. I see the sand bet it burn the feet in the hot sun. cool looking
BibbyBear
Now all this needed was a touch of red on the ground foliage and you'd have plucked a scene straight from War of the Worlds!! I too love disaster movies, Armageddon being my all time favourite (despite the fact that he promised his daughter that he WOULD return..... LIAR!!) Anyway, back to the shot in hand..... I LOVE the postwork on this Harry, it gives a real eerie mood to it. Great pic. xx
mark.spooner
Excellent a great atmospheric piece of work! Great postwork!
babuci
You just ignored a sign " Danger...Contaminated area " This desolited place look fantastic Harry. Just imagine coming up from a shelter after 2 weeks and this is what you see...scary but also fascinating.
Richardphotos
your post work has made a very surreal scenario.I walked in a nature area also today in between rain showers and it raining again now
RobyHermida
Wonderful ...............
auntietk
This is really beautiful, in a post-apocalyptic sort of way. LOVE your postwork choices! You are very talented at this - I hope there will be more!
ralfy
Absolutely great postwork!
Margana
Wonderful piece of art you created here. I love your use of those filters...it gave it such a theatrical look. Well done GOB!
Valerie-Ducom
Excellent ! :)
sharky_
Our future has ended into our past. Excellent job. Aloha
delaorden_ojeda
nice mood !
NefariousDrO
Brilliant work on this one. I like disaster movies, too, and you've really got an excellent mood in this one!
Hendesse
Stunning atmosphere and colors. Superb image!
anahata.c
wow a host of old voices in the comments, some of whom are long gone...amazing to be back in 2007. First, the shot itself is wonderfully bleak and beautiful: The bare trees contrasted by the flat sweeps of land and water: beautiful. Secondly, your treatment---as in the companion treatment a couple of days later---is wonderfully eerie and end-of-world. Yet, oddly, it feels real: Because there's something otherworldly about the place to begin with; so you didn't so much 'add' to the piece as coax out its inner essence. I think the terrain would feel wholly at home with this. And I know how several filters are a lot to mess with: Each new filter can destroy the last. You mixed them seamlessly here. Terrific job.