This photo calls for a cheesy inspirational title

The sihlouette of a bird across a sunrise with a wave breaking on itself, clawing at the sand, foreground.

One of sev­eral shots from a series of pho­tos I took recently. Com­ment and post your cheesy titles if you’re that way inclined! “Soar”, obvi­ously, is a lit­tle too cliché… can we do bet­ter? Hehehe.

For more, see the newly res­ur­rected gallery. Click the image above for (com­pressed) source res­o­lu­tion. Uncom­pressed source and full res­o­lu­tion ver­sions of all images in the gallery are sit­ting on my com­puter… I’d say to get in touch if you want to use them for any­thing, but then, I still haven’t both­ered to fix my con­tact form yet. Well, leave a com­ment and I’ll get in touch ;-) And I’ll fix the con­tact form soon, promise.

posted on Thursday, October 13th, 2005 at 10:11 pm by Josh, filed under Photography.

8 Responses to “This photo calls for a cheesy inspirational title”

  1. the cat-man says:

    how about…

    “The ebb and flow of light and tide…”

  2. Sam says:

    … and of life, dear Ben­jamin. Yes, of life. (those pre­vi­ous sen­tences were nat­u­rally artic­u­lated in one of those infu­ri­at­ing “relax­ation tape” voices).

    Let your dreams take flight! Oh yes!

    Sadly — so very sadly — the first thing I saw was a PHYSICAL JOURNEY that of course is inter­twined with an INNER JOURNEY that leads to per­sonal growth. And I’m not even about to start that wretched conga line of man­age­r­ial jargon-encumbered rubrick expulsion.

  3. the cat-man says:

    some­thing tells me you dont like the area of study the board of stud­ies makes us study for our Higher School Cer­tifi­cate exam­i­na­tions… (yes i did just get 3 stud­ies into one sen­tence :P)

    oh well, i thought ebb and flow was rather nice!

  4. Stephanie says:

    WHAT A GREAT PICTURE. YOUR WORK IS BRILLIANT!!

  5. Katy says:

    Can I go to where that pic­ture was taken. It looks nice and stress free…

  6. Cool photo josh! it works well with the sun­light reflect­ing of the water, I love the seren­ity (HEY theres
    an idea for a cheesy title)…, I don’t think I could get my old optio 30 to cap­ture the wave with­out blur­ing it… Pitty about the clouds though, aint it always true that whe­vere you want to get a photo of the sky/sunset those damn stra­tus clouds always get in the frig­gin way…although it looks good in that photo I would per­son­ally pre­fer some cumu­lus or a con­ges­tus in it but thats just me.… I’ve only man­aged to get one bril­liant sun­set which con­tained some­thing other than stra­tus — my
    altocu­mu­lus lentic­u­laris shot’s (quite strange for syd­ney that one, most com­mon in high alpine regions as a result of strong oro­graphic lifting.….)

  7. Josh says:

    I dunno, I reckon most cam­eras could man­age that shot okay. The auto expo­sure was, by default, pretty low because there’s an intense light source towards the mid­dle of the field of view. If I’d wanted a higher expo­sure time on my Optio S40 I’d have turned around and half-depressed to set expo­sure time on a darker object with focus near enough infin­ity it wouldn’t mat­ter, then take the photo… but I didn’t have to here.

    Your photo is really funky! Love the colours in it, did you do any post– work on that one? The photo in this post is true to colour (well, you know, as true as dig­i­tal and mon­i­tor colour pro­files allow it to be), but I’ll admit I’ve run an unsharp mask over it for the scaled version.

  8. Thanks! but — No, in-order for my cam­era to take pho­tos which rea­son­ably reflect real­ity I have to set the sharp­ness, sat­u­ra­tion and con­trast to max­i­mum oth­er­wise the pho­tos tend to look very washed-out espe­cially with the sky. You only have to look at the other pho­tos in the series to see that. I tend to take alot of shot of the same thing while adjust­ing the set­tings to get it to come out right. Unfor­tu­natly if there’s alot of white cloud around this can make the sky come out abnormally…blue. Even so, despite my best efforts my cam­era still didnt quite cap­ture the vibrance of the colour right, it looks great sure but could it could’ve been alot better.

    Mete­o­ro­log­i­cally speak­ing the next best sun­set for me to get a chance at see­ing is the bril­liant
    orange red reflect­ing off a pow­er­ful F4-F5 tor­nado.…. one day.…

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