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Admiring Foster or the Sun?


Admiring Foster or the Sun?
Photo Information
Copyright: Jasper Goss (jasper) Silver Note Writer [C: 7 W: 0 N: 43] (86)
Genre: People
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-11-24
Categories: Architecture
Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX9
Exposure: f/2.8, 1/160 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2005-11-29 19:22
Viewed: 875
Points: 8
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Hong Kong's latest international airport opened in the late 1990s to replace the staggeringly overcrowded Kai Tak airport. Kai Tak reputedly had the shortest runway of any international commercial passenger airport in the world. Landing at the old airport one came so close to nearby apartments that it was literally possible to see what people were watching on television in the moments before touchdown. The new airport at a cost US$20 billion and designed by world famous English architect Norman Foster is built in the shape of a plane with extended "wings" stretching out from a central axis. In itself the building is a remarkable testament to the internationalisation of transport and people; tourists, business men and women, migrant workers and sundry others from across the world mingle at this nexus point of global capitalism. Rich people buy silk scarfs at Hermes while round the corner a migrant worker drags on a cigarette. Shoulder to shoulder the world is revealed.
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Great picture and great note- I like how tiny the people are down at the bottom of the frame. The view out the window is fitting as well- my only suggestion would be to get the view straight on- you're kind of at an angle. But that's just a personal preferance :) I think its really nice work.

Rosie

This image is interesting. Not sure why, maybe your compositional choices, but the glass wall strikes me as a sort of giant sail, with the people aboard this ship of a terminal looking across a sea of runway to the sun lingering over the horizon.

The two figures, no matter how small, play an extremely important part in what you have posted, and what you are portraying (your photo, and the airport). Take them away, and everything changes - your comp doesn't work as well, and the aiport simply stops working! A great picture. TFS.
Alex.

Hi Jasper,

good picture with a good angle. i like how you again the sun capturing a huge space. the only two tony figures that make the picture alive.

good idea!

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