Electricity
Slaps his yellow thigh
Looking at his World
Of light and glass
Circuits twitch
In his topaz eyes
Insulators hum
In his platinum mind
Electricity
Pats his coppery stomach
Watching his silvery tentacles
Caress a few billion stony hearts
Plastic smoke swirls
In his metallic innards
Wet blue fire pulses
In his golden nostrils
Electricity
Extends his hollow hands
Enveloping the universal dark
In packets of star flame
Strung out like electric highways
I spent a delightful weekend with some friends in Wurzburg, which is in the south of Germany and therefore could not post anything new for the past few days. As usual I came back with a bunch of photos which I now need to process. So until I can post something from that trip here is something from Cologne instead, taken about 10 days back.
This was shot wide open in very low light conditions, at high ISO and inside a dimly lit, Cuban themed pub. Therefore, it is a little soft in terms of sharpness and has some noise. But inspite of all that I quite like the way this looks. Has a certain mellow mood to it. Almost like the way one feels after two drinks-reflective and melancholic, thinking about past good times with a nostalgic smile playing on one’s face!
Once upon a time
In a land faraway
There was a man that time forgot
He aged but backwards
The wisdom of age giving way
To the passionate anger of youth
He fought with gods and fairies
To reverse the flow of time
To set right all that was wrong
But alas! destiny denied him
His just victory
He is but a faint memory now
In the eye of his beholder
An extremely common flower photographed a billion times by a million photographers! But it still makes an interesting subject. Perhaps, the very reason for its popularity? I shot this handheld and so the focus is not exactly spot on. The photo is also cropped from the original.
Nothing much to say here. This was taken in Heidelberg.
Color management is such a pain! I recently shifted to ProPhoto RGB from Adobe RGB color space and whenever I save files in sRGB the photos come out so flat and dull looking! I don’t know if this is because I’m using a different laptop from my usual one or perhaps I’m doing something wrong. In any case today’s photo looks so much better in the original color space. There is much more detail in the grass at the bottom.
Update (28.06.06): Reading my comment above again makes me wonder how stupid I must have been to write that stuff. Of course, sRGB has a limited gamut and therefore colors will look less saturated in that color space. Either I was drunk when I wrote the above stuff or I must have not been using my brain!
Nothing much to say here except that I got this photo near the Dom here.
Germany is in the grip of football fever and here I’m without a single photograph to show some of it. That changed today as I went out to shoot some of the madness around the time of the exciting match between Ghana and Czech Republic. What you see in the photo is part of a huge tableaux covering the whole inside of the ceiling of Cologne’s main train station. It is an awesome sight!
This is a photo from my trip to Vienna in April of this year. This was shot near the Danube insel (island) in the city.