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I and my wife decided to visit some point of interest although the not good weather. We take a car and after the 7 hours a helm we saw… bb

You can see a “crazy” photographer in any place. What does he try to see?   

Here it is the object

                                                                                        

If I modify words of Forrest Gump "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna see." But if your camera always with you…  I made a lot of photo’s but this is my favourite.

Priceless pic. Thanks for sharing the moment..

Regards,

iAn

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thanks for sharing
cheers

Nice pictures, where are they taken exactly? I love these posts Nozhik. As for the snail, i knew i had a greasy example on my hard disk somewhere .... . Filip

This message has been edited by bimbaeno on 2009-05-19 12:20:45

Without the shell it looks like a slug. 

Slimy and cool all the same!

Cheers,
Daos

pedia slug Daos !!! ... but be sure you're not eating something ... i will come out !!!!

Filip

I can see why you were grossed-out, Filip!  Still, slugs are very interesting creatures.  My favorite slug-like critters are nudibranchs (sea slugs).  They are often such colorful creatures (and sometimes toxic)!  Check out how fanciful they look in this link from National Geographic (click here ).

Cheers,
Daos

Scary! 

-MW

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the text in picture #8 looked like ukrainian (well, whatever was in cyrillic), but there was a lot of other (latin?) text too.

looked like a nice trip.

I particularly love the one of the birds flying up from the street!  Very cool!

Cheers,
Daos

I also loved that image, thanks Nozhik.

 

John Woo was well known for including doves in his films which usually flew away in slow motion as a violent act was about to erupt on the screen.

 

I am obviously still stuck in the B-movie groove, but Woo’s Hong Kong action films are above reproach for beautifully choreographed mayhem.

 

“The Killer” (1989), “Hard Boiled” (1992) and possibly “A better Tomorrow” (1986) are the benchmarks IMO. He never quite reached the same heights in the US unfortunately.

 

Andrew

...although, I do agree that his US work has, and probably never will, eclipse his Hong Kong films.  The Killer is one of my favorite films.  It's funny that Nozhik's photo made you think of Woo.  I had the exact same reaction.  My favorite scenes in John Woo films are the ones in which bullets are ejected from the gun and fall in slo-mo.  Woo makes the motion of their falling seem like flower petals drifting in a breeze, and his scenes of gunplay are almost like a dance.  I really regret not picking up all the Criterion Collection versions of Woo films.  They are now out of print and sell in the secondary market for a good amount of money. 

If you haven't seen it already, you might like the Christian Bale-starrer Equilibrium.  It's a scifi flick with acrobatic gunplay.  The main characters in the movie engage in a martial art the film calls gun kata.  I think the movie is really underrated.

Cheers,
Daos

“Woo makes the motion … seem like flower petals drifting in a breeze, and his scenes of gunplay are almost like a dance.”

 

I couldn’t agree more. My first introduction to Woo’s work was actually “Hard Boiled”, so that is the film that burns brightest in my mind. The contrast of the beauty of the balletic choreography with the violence is quite mesmerizing. As are the long continuous takes and the visual imagery such as the doves. Jaw dropping stuff in its day, but a little hard to go back and revisit it with all that has come since such as Matrix and a myriad of animated computer games. Still, it was great to be there at the beginning.

 

Thanks for the heads up with “Equilibrium” – I haven’t seen it but will keep an eye out for it.

 

A

Thanks for sharing the pics! I especially like how you captured the building in the last pic, nicely done! And nice macro of the snail!

-MW
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