Armillary in the Square by bmac62
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Description
The Savannah, Georgia Historic District represents the original city plan drawn up by English General James Ogelthorp in 1733. There were originally twenty four squares around which all the homes were built. Twenty two exist today (two being lost to development).
My original photo of this park, Troup Square, was all green with a white sky that should have been blue of course:-) So, to make it more appealing, at least to me, I employed a Tourmaline Topaz filter.
Back to the title: You'll notice a globe looking affair in the square. This is an 1870s Victorian era armillary. If you are unfamiliar with the term (I never heard of it before), an armillary is an astronomical model used to display relationships between celestial circles.
Comments (14)
Faemike55
cool photo and postwork - that's new term to me as well
RodS Online Now!
I love the wonderful postwork on this shot, Bill. It's very dreamlike, and has a wonderful fall-ish quality.
Interesting fact about the armillary - now I'm gonna have to explore that a little bit..
bobrgallegos
Super post work makes this photo look painterly. Great job Bill!
durleybeachbum
I really like this! Isn't Topaz fun!?
helanker
WOW! I love this image. Dont know what you did to it... AH Topaz..... but there is a hint of Mark over it :D
kgb224
Superb capture and post work Bill. God bless.
jendellas
Excellent, you have made it very appealing.
moochagoo
Really amazing postwork
wysiwig
Fantastic effects. Is there any tradition of this place being haunted. Zoom in and take a look just to the left of the large tree and just under its lowest branch. There is definitely a face there. Perhaps old James himself.
anahata.c
So THIS is what you were doing Sunday night??? Who would've guessed!!! Your Topaz work has come out of the gate shouting---you really take to it naturally. I can see the Bill shot within it: Even if you didn't like the original sky, you got a huge feeling of a grand tree over-arching a park. And the presence of that huge center trunk with those wonderful leaves everywhere makes this a wonderful tree composition. Your filtering gave us yellows and neon greens and light aqua greens. And these heavy reds and pink-reds are really powerful---I never know you had these treatments in you, before! The armillary is there, but the world around it protects it; and it, itself, seems so delicate and rare, by comparison. I love the contrast. Great work with that filter. I've yet to join the topaz train, but with andrea, tara, helle and now you, I don't think I need to. A deep throbbing image, Bill.
Richardphotos
very cool effects Bill
auntietk
Love the way this turned out. You're a master with these sort of extreme filters! The result you got with this is just right.
X-PaX
I like the postwork very much Bill. You've turned the spring colors into autumn colors.
kenmo
Cool results...