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through the bubble

This is a single image taken through a bubble window at the park. I thought the scratches made by children over the years was interesting and created a particular mood. Cropped, levels and converted to b/w

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Saleh Kazemi 3 months ago

Wow, very good.

Andre du Plessis 1 year ago

Superb vision, and such a special image this left you with!

Alex OBrien 2 years ago

Simply brilliant!

Femke de Wit 3 years ago

Perfect! Great shot.

Jakub Kuc 4 years ago

marvelous, love it

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Jakub, Thank you so much!

Fernand Hick 4 years ago

Nice Angela, but did you try it without the clear foreground ?
Cheers, Fernand

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Fernand, Thanks. Yes, I did try that crop but It did not feel right. I also liked the fact the curved line that repeated in the top of the photo. Thanks!

Jure Kravanja 4 years ago

superb

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Thank you, Jure.

Judy W 4 years ago

You make the editing just enhance the image totally. So wonderful. You weave a delicious tale here.

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Judy, Thank you so much. Not much editing in this image. cropped and worked on levels a bit beforing deciding to make to b/w. Thank so much. A little burn here and there. :)

Mal Smart 4 years ago

I would like a lesson on both your technique but more importantly your vision with these images Angela. Super work. mal

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Mal, Thank you. I don't think this was much of a techinique. I just saw it and waited. As for my visions!?! I'm a dreamer and when I say that I don't mean head in the clouds- when I sleep I dream and I remember every one of them and I have kept records of them for years. However, I don't try to visually interpert them- they just come intitutively. That is the only way I can describe it. I tend to go with the flow and trust things are going to appear and work out. I think symbolically. Nothing special about that. Thanks! Very happy you like it. :)

Rui Palha 4 years ago

Very creative, dreamy and excellent photograph.

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Rui, Thank you so much. Happy you like it.

Emily Bem 4 years ago

I bow to the master.....

:-D

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Oh! Please!!!!!!!!!!! Coming from you, it means so much! :)

Willy Marthinussen 4 years ago

very nice once again..love it.
All the best --willy--

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Thanks Willy, means a lot to me you like it. ;)

King Douglas 4 years ago

The foreground and sky in this beautiful image has the quality of an aquatint etching. Although I come from a highly technical, traditional and classical education in photographic techniques, I'm very open images of all sorts, and mainly to images that move or inspire me to continue and improve my own work.

This image, in common with so many of your pieces, does that for me. To paraphrase Jack Nicholson in "As Good As It Gets," you make me want to be a better photographer.

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Love your indepth comments. Just a pleasure to read. When I saw what all those scratches in looked like a etching and it had a pattern. It also reminded me of the lines in the image Frozen I did and that also sparked my interest.
Thank you so much! you are quite the movie buff! Me too! :)

Andrew Stewart 4 years ago

Yes, yes, yes, yes , yes!!! :-)

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Glad you approve. :)

Elisabeth Gustafson 4 years ago

Once again a artistic piece of work that goes straight to the heart.. I think of childhood memories when i see it.. Even though its grayscale, i feel happiness looking at it! Great work Angela!
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Elisabeth

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Elisabeth, Thank you for your wonderful comment. It was fun to shoot. Thanks! :)

Alberto Peroni 4 years ago

Lovely

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Thank you so much!

Codrin Lupei 4 years ago

Wonderful picture, Angela! For me it could be made from thousand images, it is and remaind very beautiful, love the scratch (now I know it is a scratch :-)) from near the tree, a 'stairway to heaven', and the kids running in the opposite direction. Probably I'm seeing too much :-). Anyway, I love it!
all the best
Codrin

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Condrin, We really do think alike. I read so much into everything- Everything tends to be symbloic for me and that large scratch is exactely what I was thinking when I saw it in the view finder. Then I waited for those boys.
I wonder if there is so much enthusium over this image because it is a single shot? Makes no difference to me how I get there composed in camera or sketched in photoshop. I view both the same. It is like layering a painting and composing in camera is the same to me.
btw:however that is also going to make one cool texture overlay for future images. HA!

rikki-paul 4 years ago

beautiful, love your visions.

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Thank you! Makes me happy others like my photos.

pantiyasa 4 years ago

great shot... amazing.. i lkie your vision

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Thank you so much for the kind words.:)

flo 4 years ago

a special photograph.. dreamy like a fary tale.. I love it

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Thank you, Flo. Much appreciated as always.

Juha Saransalmi 4 years ago

Really fantastic picture!! -Juha

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Juha, Thank you so much.

Daria Endresen 4 years ago

Amazingly creative! it's really hard to believe that it's a single shot.. great work, Angela :)

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Thank you! It is a single shot. That texture is what makes it pop. It amazed me too. Thanks, Daria.

Lizzie Keitel 4 years ago

wonderful find and you have captured the mood perfectly!

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Thanks,Lizzie. It is funny how kids make you see things you never would see before. I keep my two year old son close by always! :)

Andreas Kauppi 4 years ago

Great work Angela=)

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Andreas,Thank you so much!

Ursula I Abresch 4 years ago

Wow! This is good. Don't know what else to say.

Angela Bacon-Kidwell WoW! Thank you, Ursula. Very much appreciated.

Andrea Orioli 4 years ago

This is so good! I couldn't believe it's a single shot...Everytime I'm impressed by your job!!
Andrea

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Thank you so much. That texture was awesome. I might try other playgrounds next week!:)

Andrea Orioli Just for curiosity and to improve my english.. :-) what is a bubble window?!

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Andrea, I'm not sure if that is what it is actually called but it is a large plexiglass window that is part of a playground set. So the kids can see through. :)

Andrea Orioli So I have to look for scratched plexiglass windows in the parks :-)))))

Angela Bacon-Kidwell lol! Yes, and you have to climb up the ladder and crunch in the window. Just watch all the moms freak out! Take a kid with you they are a good cover up. :)

barbara 4 years ago

what kind of bubble do you have in mind ?
this is really good!
no, it is better....
no, it is the best!

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Barbara, So happy you like this. This was taken at a playground on top of a big playset- The ones that have the bubble windows so the children can see through. The dirty plexi and texture made the shot- it seemed to blur in all the right places. Thanks. I'll start uploading single shots more often-I take tons!:)

Ilja Hackman 4 years ago

well you sure did it again, Angela!
Absolutely fantastic! Wonderful, dreamlike mood and the scratches sure adds to this as well!
I just love your artistic vision, Angela!
You´re the man!!

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Hey! After working all night yesterday on one of my many layered images I was tired and decied to uploded a shot from early in the week. Not much at all done to this image. Thank you so much.

Anne Lene Baanrud 4 years ago

Fantastic shot Angela!
Very impressive to be a single shot, everything comes together in this wonderful image, love the composition and the scratches!
All the best Anne Lene

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Anne, Thank you so much. When I saw all those scratches I started composing a shot. I love the idea of the texture w/o it being a overlay. I just waited for some movement and that was it. Thank you! Shocked it made it through.

lucian olteanu 4 years ago

extra!lucian

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Thanks! EXTRA!:)

Fulvio Pellegrini 4 years ago

a MASTERPIECE
no words Angela - best quality
F.

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Thank you, so much.

Ulf Börjesson 4 years ago

Given the fact that it's a single shot i'm really impressed. Very creative too!
U

Angela Bacon-Kidwell Wow! I'm really happy. This was so much fun to do. I was in the bubble for quite some time trying to compose an interesting shot. Then I saw the two boys running and I waited. Thank you!

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