Deliverance

[Colin Southern]

A life raft of hope in this dark and troubled world. Born yesterday @ 5:54pm. Born again today @ 4:45pm.

[GEORDIE]

Colin, that is beautiful.
You have now moved my goalposts further away.
Typical Kiwi
Cheers Colin.

[wilgk]

Very beautiful indeed.

[Stagecoach]

Love the golden light reflections on the water and that stillness Colin, good one.

Grahame

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured.

[Colin Southern]

Thanks folks - much appreciated!

[FootLoose]

Whew! I was half expecting to see a gap-toothed hill-billy

Beautiful work, Colin. I do understand the title.

[Colin Southern]

Thanks Greg!

[Donald]

A classic Southern!

[Colin Southern]

Thanks Donald ... it's been a while!

[bnnrcn]

Hi Colin I have a question about this lovely image. It seems to be a long exposure shot but the boat looks sharp enough. So didn't it move at all while shooting or what did you do to make it look sharp?

[Colin Southern]

Hi Colin I have a question about this lovely image. It seems to be a long exposure shot but the boat looks sharp enough. So didn't it move at all while shooting or what did you do to make it look sharp?

Hi Binnur,

That shot was taken at 1/200th -- it just happened to be that there was no wind, so the water was calm.

Usually with boat shots you can get away with a second or two in those kinds of conditions, but ultimately they often "swirl" around quite a lot in the currents.

Here's what happens typically happens over a 4 minute period:

[bnnrcn]

Thank you Colin The water looks so calm that I thought it was a long exposure .

Hi Binnur,

That shot was taken at 1/200th -- it just happened to be that there was no wind, so the water was calm.

Usually with boat shots you can get away with a second or two in those kinds of conditions, but ultimately they often "swirl" around quite a lot in the currents.

Here's what happens typically happens over a 4 minute period:

[Colin Southern]

Thank you Colin The water looks so calm that I thought it was a long exposure .

Nah - just a windless evening

[Nicks Pics]

As for the title, it is hinting, but to me, the point is not quite clear, if there is a particular point. Nicely done image, though.

[ied]

Absolutely stunning!
Irene

[John 2]

Missed this one Colin. Nice comp (well why wouldn't it be?) in fact very nice overall.

[wilgk]

Whew! I was half expecting to see a gap-toothed hill-billy

Beautiful work, Colin. I do understand the title.

Indeed stunning shot! & Greg, that's NZ, find yourself in the back blocks of Colac & the Otways over here.... That's way more like your (that sort) of 'Deliverance remake landscape'

[Colin Southern]

Thanks folks. Does the title refer to the movie though?

Just to put you all out of your misery, here's how I came up with it ...

"We live in a troubled world - in the past few weeks we've heard of missiles bringing down passenger aircraft - hundreds of deaths on the Gaza strip - suicide bombs killing dozens. I'd go so far as to say it's a "dark-mood world" - and here we have a "dark-mood" photo.

"At the top of the photo we have light piercing through the cloud - some people call this lighting "fingers of God" and at the bottom of the image we have a boat - illuminated in part by "the light of God"

"And with a little imagination, you can almost visualise the small boat (symbolic of a life raft) being "pushed out of the darkness by the hand of God" - the "deliverance" of an opportunity for rescue in this dark and troubled and stormy world."

So there you go (ironically, I'm not religious though!)

[Nicks Pics]

Thanks for the explanation.

So there you go (ironically, I'm not religious though!)

That is ironic, so I understand it was just some exercising of the imagination, to you.