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Photographer’s Note

Location: 10 km East from Ashdod.
Time: 14:13
Date: Feb 4th, 2005
Weather: Rainy
Temp: +9C
Wind: North West
Light: Low
Vehicle: Peugeot 406
Road: Muddy dirt path
Fuel level: Low
Crew: Driver Only
Mission: Explore the abandoned house
Navigation: Wrong
Problems: Sunk in mud, not enough crew for pushing.
Rescue: Forward and reverse, again and again
Driver: Wet and dirty
Battery: Low
Location: Too far from the house
Solution: A distant view
Mission: Failed
Promise: I'll be back again
Car Wash: 45 NIS (10$)
Final result: Here it is.

Burnham, TheG1, Xalkida, marekrallying, papagolf21, Rinie_Hoff, robiuk, Isabelle, pridel, avish, jrj, ChrisJ, nwoehnl, sandip, sunny, joseelias has marked this note useful

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Burnham (2426) 2005-02-14 16:28

Ha ha, great note Yitzhak, made me smile. I'm looking forward to when you get back there, but in the meanwhile I have this rather gloomy shot to look at, I like it though it's lonely and sort of sad, but I think I would have increased the contrasts a bit just to give the dramatic sky more impact.

marcb (589) 2005-02-14 16:49

Excellent Yitzhak!! That's a great compositon!! I like the bent trees and the tortured sky. Gray and green work perfectly. Congratulations!
Best regards,
Marc

Xalkida (11740) 2005-02-14 16:54

Very fine composition! The storm is coming and the trees lying to the winds direction! Very fine!

eleparc (24059) 2005-02-14 17:03

nice shot and fun note Yitzhak... i like the grainy apsect of this deserted shot...well done!

Didi (36544) 2005-02-14 17:07

You should write Mission Impossible Ha ha ! Very nice Yitzhak ! Try next time the 407Peugeot :))
The very bad weather has created a very dramatic sky.
It's a very good composition in spite of your bad luck.

TheG1 (1461) 2005-02-14 17:07

Original note! it looks like an EXIF note.
Well, after learning about the problems you were facing, the house looks mysterious. The dramatic clouds adds to that feeling.

summer89 (5414) 2005-02-14 17:12

Great photo

This composition it´s great. The note very creative.

Well done

papagolf21 (56811) 2005-02-14 17:28

Bonsoir Yitzhak,
;-)) - ;-)) !!!!!
Non seulement, vous avez du talent, mais en plus beaucoup d'humour, j'aime !
Cela revient cher de vouloir publier une photo sur TE.
Très bien vu et très original, comme d'habitude.
Bien amicalement.
Philippe

Clochette (8076) 2005-02-14 17:39

:-D
To be entirely sincere Yitzhak, this pic is not the one I prefer within your gallery. But the NOTE !!! What a good time you gave us with that note !
You made me laugh so I return my smiley to you, this is nothing but justice ! :-)))))

Rinie_Hoff (9334) 2005-02-14 18:10

Good note! And you got a new intro picture!
I'm curious, what was your mission, and what can we expect?
I like the composition this way, Yitzhak. You gave way to an impressive sky, and an empty frame, just filling a small part of it.
Very clever.

kikvel (4772) 2005-02-14 18:22

your notes are great Yitzhak!!!

and the picture is great too, very simple and what a moody sky

the bent trees are great too

very expensive car wash! here in Py you pay only 0.9USD minimum and 4usd max.

K.

robiuk (10763) 2005-02-14 19:37

Lovely dark still well saturated scene with a most dramatic sky I've seen lately.
Graininess gives a special punch to the capture. Nice compo, as well, Yitzhak!
Robi

pridel (233) 2005-02-15 4:07

Yitzhak
I never believe not to have still read of so interesting note :-)
As for the photograph, I like much the immense mass of clouds to the top of the house. only the cables seem to protect it.
compo is excellent.
cheer
Pascal

avish (47) 2005-02-15 4:30

Definetly one of the best notes I've ever read on TE. I love abandoned houses. It's a shame you couldn't get much closer, from that distance it looks like an ordinery private house. Still, a very good pic and beautiful colors.

clodreno (0) 2005-02-15 5:14

a nice image Yithak.. I love the compo. Also like the way you chose to include the electric pole next to the bunch of trees.. The sky is huge and that's nice..
Nice image

jrj (34779) 2005-02-15 8:48

Great story Yitzhak, and I think the shot goes well with the job of getting close enough. You PP gives the compo a kind og painted look - yhat in thia case works ok.
..and maybe you should think about a 4x4.. going for these kind of shots..

nwoehnl (120) 2005-02-15 14:23

Great note to go with this well-composed elementary shot, Itzik. Good placement of the trees and man-made elements in the low-horizoned compo, and the grainy look actually goes just fine with the dramatic sky. Well done.

dkeus31 (26399) 2005-02-15 16:01

Hi Yitzhak
Nice sky and good framing.
Nice composition and note.

sandip (3492) 2005-02-15 21:49

Somewhere I read that Green is healthier for eyes.And You caught it.exactly matched with the sky also.And finally, yes its the note which made it unique.
Thanks.

ChrisJ (70443) 2005-02-16 3:34

Hi Yitzhak

I like the dark & foreboding sky, & its dominance, which make the silhouettes of the trees & powerline seem small by comparison.

Zepi (22848) 2005-02-16 7:11

Magnifique photo !
C’est très graphique !
Une merveilleuse composition !
J’adore ces 2 arbres et cette ligne électrique qui donne beaucoup de dynamisme à votre image !
Impeccable !
Bien joué !

Amicalement - Sébastien

chinchini (27841) 2005-02-16 16:35

Bonsoir Yitzhak,
Bonne et simple composition, aidée en cela par un grand ciel très nuageux.
Très drôle le fichier exif. ;-)
Bonne soirée !
Pierre

Maru (0) 2005-02-16 17:34

Great and original note, Yitzhak! You made me laugh a lot, thanks for that :)
I like the "distant view" of the target, you can use it as a first round..
great huge sky, and i like that the bottom part of the shot is under the light cable, good eye.
stormy light made the composition more mysterious..

IMO: mission acomplished !!

Marisa.

sunny (3068) 2005-02-17 11:26

Moody, graphical, striking in simplicity shot, Yitzhak! Great layers with a minimalistic way of spreaded details. Excellent job!
ps: ...it was worth the bad weather, the low light and the distant view! ;-))

dolin (15647) 2005-02-20 4:17

Hello.
Très jolie prise de vue.
En général, les lignes à haute tension, c'et ce qu j'essaie de ne pas cadrer, mais là ca donne un bel effet.
Le ciel est très menaçant et il donne un grand plus à la photo.
Joli.
Fred

joseelias (367) 2005-02-21 7:36

Eheheh. It reminds me my first visit to the Crato Dolmen… My car was with the front completely sunk in the mud in the middle of the planes, and I without almost any credit on the cell phone and Sofia’s cell phone without battery to call the tow, and the cows with small calves looking at us in a not very resting way…

Still I got interesting photos as you. Good placement of the horizon with the house and trees in a good spot of the composition. Excellent sky. I just would like a bit more sharpness and clearness in the image to explore the cloud textures and details.

albiback (8506) 2005-02-24 8:02

A charged sky, grain and an atmosphere enough naturalist. In green and gray a success