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Photography Atmosphere/Mood posted on Jun 20, 2010
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This picture reminds me of a scene from one of those action-packed 1970s cop shows like Adam-12, Kojak, or Hawaii Five-0. In this sequence, the cops are racing to the scene of a murder in progress to save the victim just in the nick of time, but not before a commercial for Alka-Seltzer or Whirlpool kitchen trash compactors. This picture was made out of the windshield of a big, old V8-powered American car, racing down a rain-slick/glittering night-time city street. Rain and speed make for dramatic photos. Can't you just hear the revving engines, squealing tires and blaring sirens, and that pulse-pounding tv-action-show music: a blaring combination of electric guitar, heavy brass, and drums, and perhaps a bit of cow-bell thrown in. Ah yes, car chases, shoot-outs, and mayhem are the perfect makings of a happy 1970s boyhood. In all actuality, this picture was made out of the windshield of a friend's 1991 Mercury Grand Marquis (the architecture of which stretched back to 1979 and looked it) as we were running late for a Christmas party, last December 24th...so much for pathos.

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danapommet

9:55PM | Sun, 20 June 2010

I can still hear ir - "One Adam-12 - what is your 20". The rain and all the lights - I love it. Dana

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KatesFriend

11:15PM | Sun, 20 June 2010

Oh, it's always the lights, the streaking red lights that captivated me. For those police dramas they often used the same daytime film stock to shoot the night scenes. The "cheery" would often appear with a blinking tail of fire as the cruisers rolled down the highway. I love this shot.

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durleybeachbum

2:46AM | Mon, 21 June 2010

A great shot made exciting by your narrative!!

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Chipka

3:24AM | Mon, 21 June 2010

I like this sort of moody shot! I never watched cop shows as a kid; I was always more interested in the hokey, but fashion-forward happenings on Moonbase Alpha (Remember Space: 1999?) as well as reruns of Star Trek and those really intriguing shows on PBS, back when they actually showed open heart surgery--in progress--on television, somewhere near prime after-dinner snack time. Yeah, I was a weird kid and I distinctly remember watching a condensed version of a bypass operation, while learning just how floppy a heart actually is and what it does and how often it does it--while flopping around. (It does quite a lot, mind you, and in the most extravagantly floppy manner possible; hearts and puppy ears have a lot in common in terms of flop factors.) So all of that is to say I love this shot, even though it doesn't conjure cop chases for me, just because I've seen so few of them. It does remind me of a more cinematically-elegant shot I'd see in a Quentin Tarantino film, probably as the bad-guy protagonists are "hangin' back a minute" and looking for the nearest Big Kahuna Burger joint--they make a mighty tasty cheeseburger, you know. And by the way, do you know what they call a Quarter Pounder in France...? Okay, see what you've done? A picture is a pretty good one if it makes me go around quoting Quentin Tarantino characters! Yeah. This is a good shot.

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flavia49

7:34AM | Mon, 21 June 2010

fantastic capture!! love the colors, the reflections and your urban landscapes!!

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Meisiekind

9:00AM | Mon, 21 June 2010

Love the flashback to Kojak... and the image - amazing movement in the wet! It is magical!

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jmb007

9:11AM | Mon, 21 June 2010

bonne photo!!

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Sea_Dog

11:48AM | Mon, 21 June 2010

Great story and image.

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yons

3:34PM | Mon, 21 June 2010

The rain and light effect on the bonnet of the car is incredible. Good work.

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sandra46

5:18PM | Mon, 21 June 2010

GORGEOUS IMAGE, GREAT SHOT, AND IT'S PEFECT FOR CHIRSTMAS, SINCE THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS AND THE LAMPS LOOK LIKE XMAS TREE BALLS AND LIGHTS!

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anahata.c

4:14AM | Tue, 22 June 2010

terrific giddy capture, and your narratives fit it perfectly. It can be many things, we can all find a story in it, though your tv crime series is a riot, esp with the commercial interruptions. (I've waited for them to happen in real life, but they haven't. Not with the same production values, at least.) You always make such vital visuals out of the day-to-day, and the light here & energy are very catching. You just have a way...it's a jarring, giddy & really stunning bit of city-dom from the back of a car, and I assume that's ice at the bottom (it's a wild frame to the shot, whatever it is); and hard as I look, I don't see any christmas lights---just city lights---which is cool, because these shots capture a "christmas" feel all year long. I love it. I'd see this shot & say, "nope, I'll get nothin'": You see it, and it's a gem.

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auntietk

10:23PM | Tue, 22 June 2010

I love the wet/ice/whatever-all on the windshield. It really makes this shot! It reminds me of the 60s, lying down in the back seat of the car, trying to sleep while we were on our way home from some far-away place. The street lights were hypnotic as they streaked across the car and down the back window, and every once in a while there would be a gas station, or we'd stop at a light, turn a corner ... the perspective was so wrong, it felt all backward. Thanks for that trip down memory lane to a rather odd place!

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beachzz

10:50PM | Tue, 22 June 2010

Oh wow, this is great. I drove a 79 Olds Cutlass for a long time (kinda like driving a couch!!), so I know about big cars. That doesn't anything to do with this great shot, but it's what came to mind. As far as the cop shows and thrilling car chases go, oh yeah, I'm hearing it for sure!!

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myrrhluz

11:06PM | Wed, 23 June 2010

The cop show I watched the most was Barney Miller. Great, but not quite the same tone. It had hashish-laced brownies, guys that thought they were werewolves and very bad coffee. I did watch "Hill Street Blues" for a while. "Hey, let's be careful out there" which had police cars streaming out into the night. I have lived mostly in warm climates so haven't done a lot of ice scraping, but I did have a Simca in the cold climes of England. It was bright red and generally falling apart around me. It's the only car where I had to scrape ice off the outside of the windows, then get inside and scrape it off the inside while my hands turned pretty shades of blue with strange spots of orange. Wonderful image, which does send images from some mostly forgotten cop action show of flashing lights and sirens screaming into the night. I love the frost on the bottom and the lights shining through it! I like that the lights are predominantly of the street. There are a few blues and greens of buildings, but it is mostly reds, golds and whites of car lights and street lights and wonderful reflections of the same. This gives it an impersonal and sordid look great for crime scenes in the making. All set up for the loud sound effects and blaring music. And more cowbells.

sawade

9:38AM | Sat, 21 August 2010

Hi Corey, a good pic of the rainy, dark night. Wonderful. Code 3. You speak about movies. Code 3 remembers me on Code red, the movie "A few good men" with Tom Cruise. The pic could be out Blade Runner too, smile. But now its enough with the movies, All the best, Bernd

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kgb224

8:18PM | Sun, 06 February 2011

I just love it. Outstanding night photography.


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MakeNIKON
ModelCOOLPIX S230
Shutter Speed10/216
ISO Speed400
Focal Length6

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