Blue, Blue, Blue, a photo from Baja California Norte, Baja

Photographer's Note

This is a straight shot. Can you figure out what you're looking at?

Ok, the foreground (bottom) strip of blue is the edge of an "infinity pool" in the resort hotel I stayed at in Baja, North of Ensenada. The pool went right to the edge of the cliff that the hotel was perched on.

As I reclined on a deck chair and watched a little motor boat go by in the distance, my eyes caught this composition. The next time a boat went by, I composed with a tele lens (and later cropped/straightened further in Photoshop) to get this odd abstract composition. I like it. What do you think?

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tobyh (132) 2004-01-23 12:40

I think it's really great. The way the image is cut up almost exactly into three - it looks like a flag on the thumbnail, and the contrast between the two surfaces of water is really interesting. Thanks!

aqueous (55) 2004-05-11 23:37 [Comment]

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Mondaychild (378) 2006-10-30 8:20

Hi Sam,

fascinating shot! I like the straight layers colored in different shades of blue. The black bar and the boats are eyecatchers!

I took a similar shot in Turkey:
http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Middle_East/Turkey/photo455823.htm