Cliff Canyon: Roof Poles by auntietk
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Description
Outside Colorado Springs
October, 2011
About 3:50 in the afternoon (I always wonder, when I see poles casting shadows, what time it was.) :)
I posted an image from Cliff Canyon a couple weeks after we'd been there and gave a lot of information about it at the time. You can see it here if you're interested.
Comments (30)
Great shadow play and textures sweetie. I love your POV too, way to go!
Love the angle and the light and the shadows and everything about this shot!!
Such a striking composition! It makes me look long and hard. The sun seems amazingly high, I suppose it is th latitude.
super work
Nice poles. Your shot makes them seem dramatic. :)
I like the weathering on the poles and plaster.
Great composition and nice to see a B&W shot.
A beautiful sight and super shadows. Well seen and captured Tara.
superb !
Superb capture Tara. God Bless.
Very nice shot!
a special mood with the light/shadowplay !!
Cool shadow capture
A fine b&w texture study & abstract composition that conveys the essence & atmosphere of it's location with just a few simple elements...
Beautiful shot of these poles, Tara :-)
Such great indeed with the shadows, and some of them seems to have eyes! :)
Gorgeous light and shadow shot, Tara! Love that wood texture, too!
wonderful picture! amazing lights and atmosphere
I love this adobe building style; wonderful compo here. (3:50 pm? guess I'd better adjust my sundial. Was that daylight savings time?)
Wonderful and very creative work
this is wonderful
Wonderful capture of Southwestern architecture!!
Great detail, great capture Tara. Looks cool in b & w. I always wonder about shadows too, but usually whether the picture was taken north or south of the equator, or, if within the Tropics, what time of year (besides the time of day)
Interesting shot... Aloha
wonderful!!! looks really hot out there!
Roof poles are always interesting! I love the textures and the shadows. I always look at shadows (or sunlight patterns) and wonder what part of a clock or calendar I'm looking at. And these roof poles actually do remind me of the sundial time-keepers often poking out of the faces of really old Czech buildings. They were simple metal poles, with stuff painted underneath them in sort of semi-circular pattern, almost like an orange slice laying, flat-side-up, and by looking at those, you could tell the time (during daylight) and the season too. I'm sure the builders of these cliff-dweller homes had other time-keepers, but it's nice to see lots of time keepers serving as roof/ceiling beams. The black and white treatment of this shot really works superbly.
so much sees and thinks too wonderful warm hugs, Linda Kaye
i'll leave more comments later in the month, but I wanted to at least leave you one in your gallery (rather than in email), to bow in deep respect for all you've posted here. This of course could be a color shot: It doesn't necessarily "say" b&w (or at least mostly b&w). But you've shown that when one penetrates the essence of an image, they can transform it into beautiful, tonally nuanced & texturally vivid b&w. There's something in the posts & in your treatment of them, that makes them subtly glow from the inside; and their contrasts---against the white walls (bleached beautifully either in the original shot or in your postwork)---make them stand out and, to my eyes, feel 'soft' by comparison. I put 'soft' in quotes because they're, in reality, harsh horizontals: Yet their deep hues & generous undersides make them feel strangely soft to me. Can't explain it, it's just indelible to my eye. Your wall shadows are harsh saturated blacks (or darks), which makes them 'design elements' against the brightness of the wall. And you 'end'---or punctuate---the shot, on the right side, with shadows: a natural conclusion to the image, to my eyes. When presenting architecture as a stark symphony of form & tone, b&w can be perfect: And this is a beautiful piece of b&w. In fact, it wouldn't look right any other way. And the wall communicates texture & mystery. A beautiful transformation, and gently luminous as well. I'll be back for more...
Good POV with those shadows.
Ah ha, the cliff dwellings moved in 1906 from the Four Corners area to Colorado Springs...before there was an antiquities act. You've captured the essence of these old Pueblos...wood, mud brick and stone. I am in total agreement with all your articulate commenters above. B&W is just the ticket:)