More Photo Doctoring

[Jeremy]

I wanted to take a photo of Maysville's "Bermuda Triangle" for an article I was writing about it (http://www.maysvillexplorer.com/blog/1/entries/397/2006-11-Exploring-Maysvilles-Bermuda-Triangle), so I took this picture:

http://www.maysvillexplorer.com/downloads/pics/triangle_original.jpg

It wasn't nearly spooky or Bermuda Triangly enough, so I made some modifications.

[Jeremy]

http://www.maysvillexplorer.com/downloads/pics/triangle_thumb.jpg (http://www.maysvillexplorer.com/downloads/pics/triangle.jpg)

This is the end result (click the photo for a larger version). I don't really want to go into what it took to doctor this particular photo because there's more steps than I care to cover. But it's another example of how doctoring a raw photo can help create a particular mood that was absent in the original picture.

[Foxy]

Very well done!

[Jeremy]

Thanks Foxy. I just thought the story was a really interesting Maysville story (thanks for the link Ponto). Getting to where you can take a decent shot of the thing was a real [insert explicative], but was well worth it.

[lol]

now if we could only get it cleaned up! LMAO!

[Foxy]

I was wondering how you got that shot. I have never seen this before.

[ponto]

I am amazed at the photograph, I had heard about the story for a long time, but had no clue as to what it looked like.

It is surprising how one's mind visualizes something and then to see your photograph that tells the true story.

Thank you for a great addition to Maysville history. You are truly a great journalist and writer. I do not think there are any other photographs like yours available.

[Jeremy]

Aww shucks. Thanks for the compliments. To be honest I was a bit surprised too. When I do get a chance to go boating it's usually around Ripley, so I never saw it before going to take a picture of it. Going down there I expected to see just a bit of a pilot house (the tallest part) sticking out of the water, farther off shore.

I can completely understand why some people may want it removed. It's old and rusty and doesn't look like it belongs there -- your typical junkyard. That's all true. But I also believe that if you look at it in a certain way, it really is quite beautiful. Even without dressing up the photo, it looks like a forgotton grave marker, a symbol of finality, especially with the city behind it that may represent life and the continuation of things. The story itself is a story of the power of the Ohio River. We build dams to regulate the height of it. We build bridges over it. We build walls to change the shape of it. But sometimes the river just doesn't want to let go of some things.

Hmm... in fact, the picture coupled with the story represent Life as a River. I'm not the first to draw the metaphor that life is a river, but you can see it here very easily. You know countless little things are going on in the city in the distance, but the river brings it to a final point. Life is a process until death. It's been pointed before that you never actually see the same river twice. The water you saw a moment ago has already moved on. Likewise, life is continually unfolding. The product of life, like the river, is that at some point, it will draw you in to a final resting place. There's nothing you can do to avoid it, and all of mankind's inventions (engines and cranes, science and medicine) do little to prevent it. Sometimes the end is just a little spot off to the side of life where you're watching life go on in the distance.

OK, so I made all of that up. But it sure sounds good. ;)

[lol]

nice jeremy, but it is a junkyard!

now photoshop that pic so its gone!

[Jeremy]

lol! um, lol :)