Telephone Box, Islay

[Donald]

Unfortunately, it's not 24-hour per day sunshine in the western isles of Scotland.


40D. Tokina 11-16 f2.8 @ 11mm. ISO 100. 1/80 @ f5.6. Manual. Spot.

C & C welcome

[arith]

A telephone. You won't see one of those around here, BT used to have three within half a mile. It is an interesting picture, did you use a red filter because I can imagine the box is red.

I don't fancy walking there in the dark.

[Maritimer1]

Love it! Straight from Dr. Who. On my screen, I can see a figure-like shadow against the back wall of the booth that just adds to the mystery. Donald, did you shop out the telephone/power lines or did they just end?

Myra

[Donald]

Steve

did you use a red filter because I can imagine the box is red

I do my conversions with Raw Therapee. Still don't properly understand how all the sliders on the RT Channel Mixer interact with each other, but just keep fiddling with them until I end up with something that I think is what I had in my head and 'saw' when I pushed the button. There's definitely science involved in there somewhere, but since I operate more at the emotional, touchy/feely end of the scale, my interest in understanding things scientific is woefully lacking.

Myra

Love it! Straight from Dr. Who. On my screen, I can see a figure-like shadow against the back wall of the booth that just adds to the mystery. Donald, did you shop out the telephone/power lines or did they just end?

Have to confess that the shadowy figure on the booth was not part of the image design as I stood there in the freezing cold! And yes, you've found me out ... The telephone wire did come from that nearest pole right across the top of the telephone box. But since more and more of these cables are now being put underground, I thought I could claim that I wasn't being totally untruthful!

[Wirefox]

And I bet it is vandalised inside and smells of pee

Once again you have captured the atmosphere beautifully. It reminds me a lot of Simon Denison's work in a portfolio book I have called Quarry Land, Impermanent Landscapes of the Clee Hills ( a signed copy. My Mother-in-Law used to own the New Rd Post Office in Ludlow)

http://www.simondenison.co.uk/8.html

In my opinion your work is better executed. White out skies in BW compositions are difficult to pull off but you have nailed it here

Steve

[Donald]

And I bet it is vandalised inside and smells of pee

Nah. The yoof (children and young people) on Islay are quiet and peaceful

It reminds me a lot of Simon Denison's work ..

Now, that is nice stuff. Thanks for the link