Hi, I'm Andrea, and I'm interested in creatures and plants both wild and tamed, and people of all sorts. I only use a compact digital camera ,as I love being able to get it into a back pocket, and not have to cart heavy kit about. I carry a Panasonic Lumix TZ series, binoculars and a hand lens almost everywhere.Most of my outings are with the dogs so I only use point and shoot.
I am getting the hang of Photoshop, thanks to some very kind folk on RR!
I have a wildlife garden in Bournemouth, Dorset, in the UK, and spend a lot of time there . I retired from teaching art to teenagers a while ago.
I'm now getting some good results with my digi compacts; it took me a while to make the switch from my old film camera, an 1960 ish Pentax Spotmatic, but the mistakes are much cheaper!
I have 4 lodgers, 3 dogs and a parrot who, as at 2017, I have had 40 years.
I has so far had 19 dogs, mostly rescues.
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Comments (15)
Glendaw
Very interesting structures, colors and patina. Thanks for sharing Andrea.
jayfar
Concrete never looks pretty but this is quite good Andrea.
emmecielle
Interesting view! :)
kgb224
Superb capture Andrea. God bless.
jendellas
The bottom pic looks posher :o)))))
Adobe_One_Kenobi
Wonder how many homes went to build this. Oh well I suppose we need the roads. Great shooting my friend.
Art_Ramos
Nice!
Faemike55
it is interesting, but in a way a bit unfinished
Chipka
I'm one of those people who came of age at a time when an image like this screamed one of two things. 1.) Concrete! 2.) The Future. According to everything that I was told--through pop culture--everyone was going to be swanky and cool, like Martin Landau and Barbara Bain in Space 1999 in our oh-so-fashionable assymetrical clothing: and everything was going to be made of molded concrete to handle all of the hover-cars (they still needed roads for some reason) that we were going to own. So, that was the first thing I saw when I looked at this: only Martin Landau and Barbara Bain aren't in this shot: at least not as far as I can see. I must say that I like it; this as a stark quality and I find it rather appealing, though probably nothing like the rest of the area. It's a great shot, however, though distressingly, it does look like a far-more-squat version of Prague's "suicide bridge," one of the tallest overpasses I've ever seen. I think I like this one better!
Chipka
Oh, and the supplementary pic looks a bit more...manicured. If that's the right word. I keep expecting to see a Ukrainian model standing, smoking dramatically in his incongruous Chicago Bulls jacket and a neck burdened with Los Angeles style tacky-bling.
wysiwig
In America many people call the area between California and New York "Flyover Country". This is a bit gritty but carries a lot of visual interest. A lot of that has to do with the photographer. Good eye.
MrsRatbag
Great point of view; I like the extreme brightness of the sky breaking through the middle of the two parts...wonderful shot!
danapommet
I'm with Chip on this one - I like the second photo because it looks completed!
moochagoo
Nice idea of POV with those colors.
helanker
Right, but it makes a good shot :)
anahata.c
a sweeping shot, and zoom's a must. The upper concrete really looms, and the light strip in the middle is striking, in no small part because you allowed it to shine, saturated. The lower side is all shadow and murk, with plenty of repose. As a child I used to love to hang out in such places because they offered solitude. (A bit of the yogi in me was coming out, I presume.) And your composition allows the upper bridge to really sweep into our space. I love this shot, and it's a shame only a handful of people zoomed, because it really takes over, full size. Wonderful seeing, Andrea.