On Aviation and Photography:
"You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky." -- Amelia Earhart
“You don't take a photograph, you make it.” - - Ansel Adams
UPDATED: September 19, 2010
Hi, My name is Bill and I am updating my homepage to reflect a wonderful event in my life...marriage, September 18, 2010, to my best friend Tara...known to many of you as auntietk here on Renderosity.
We "met" shortly after I joined Renderosity in August 2008. We share a love for photography and indeed all types of art.
We live north of Seattle and enjoy getting to share photographic excursions and information with other Renderositians ( is "Renderositians" even a word? ). LOL
As for me, it seems like I've been taking pictures all my life but I didn't get serious enough to purchase my first Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera until May 2008. In May 2009 I upgraded from an Olympus E-510 to an Olympus E-30 with a wide variety of lenses.
My subject areas of interest include absolutely everything but with a frequent return to airplanes, cars, tanks, etc., ...or as Tara says, machines that make lots of noise;-)
If you are curious, I am pictured above in a Grumman Corsair on a taxiway of the Kansas City Downtown Airport. I used to fly and train others to fly airplanes. That will explain my frequent forays into the world of aviation. Last but by no means least, thanks to Pannyhb for introducing me to Renderosity. The moment I saw it I was hooked.
Fine print: Yes, the photo above is a photo manipulation:-)
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Comments (38)
danapommet
Outstanding postwork Bill. A different view for sure. Dana
jocko500
wonderful shot
Richardphotos
cool post work
lior
It's so cool!
blondeblurr
Ingenious Photo-shop trickery ? hmmm, what a novel way to present the time, feels like travelling in a time-machine, are you the timekeeper? - time after time ? You obviously had the time of your life, Bill - 'nuff said, so it's time out! LOL BB
Chipka
Oh the possibilities in this! WOW! This is fantastic. You got me to thinking about clocks and how we convey the passage of time. When I first saw this, I thought of how frikkin' cool this is as a concept. This is high art at its highest; far beyond the limited range of the so-called Ivory Tower. It's fresh and new, fun and even funny. Brilliant and very, very, very perceptive. What also gets me is how a little bit of tweaking can actually make this into an unusual and extremely precise and functional analog clock. It's 10:30, most definitely, but it could also be 4:00 if you're willing to distort your view of this image in yet another way and start rotating BOTH Seattles in ways that would probably give people a sense of motion sickness, vertigo, and gravitational challenge. The more ghostly Space Needle pointing at the 4-position on the clock could--of course--revolve around the Seattle Loop as you've rendered it here, while the upward pointing Space Needle could also revolve around a larger (unseen) loop. WOW! I'm imagining how such a clock would look (how big it would have to be) and how the "Spheres" can be defined and hands would rotate, spin, orbit, or whatever. Of course this changes the way we look at clocks, but it makes for some pretty FUN clocks to look at as well. Of course, telling time on such a clock could be a very complicated process, at least visually, as you have to know what buildings to look at, but that's half the fun. See what you do? You get my mind to working, and well...I love it when I start seeing wacky realities. This is brilliant! I love it. I think I'm going to try something similar at some point--since time is one of those things that strikes me like reflections do...there are so many possibilities, so many brain-teasers, so many ways to get the gray matter whipped into shape, and this picture did it for me. Not only is it brilliantly done, but it's really well presented. WOW! This really rocks! I'm gonna go back and look at it now and see if I can find out how all 24 hours of the day can be presented, with only the Space Needle and maybe that tall, angular, blond building. I like this a lot! And I should warn you now, a story might come out of it!
tennesseecowgirl
Terrific work Bill.
lyron
Cool work!!