random pics with golden era "aura"

[Cousin Hepcat]

Just a cool picture I took of my street tonight, when I was walking back home from a neighbor's house - a heavy mist that didn't fall but wet the face hung in the air, as if time had stopped with the drops in mid-air, and I could almost see Ingrid Bergman waiting in the distance in a trenchcoat...

An unexplainable golden era "feel", with nothing vintage in sight. A riddle, wrapped in an enigma... share if you have similar.

accompanying music (mp3)

- C H

 

[Feng_Li]

I really like how the trees frame the foreground and sides.

I've managed some like that with the strong light sources at night, but never in fog. These are probably about as close as I've come.

(if it asks for a password, it's "~anlage")

 

[Feraud]

"It looks like the kind of street where nothing ever happens. But something did happen..."

 

[Hemingway Jones]

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Excellent photo, my friend, very atmospheric. :eusa_clap
It's very mysterious with that light fog and greenish light.

 

[LadyStardust]

Great photo! It was wonderful last night where I'm at too, practically my favorite kind of atmosphere. Our sky was an intoxicating purple, the streets were slick with rain, and there was that very same fog, enveloping the tops of the tall buildings, diffusing the already soft amber glow of the street lights, figuraitvely, if not literally, hiding away any pleasantry. Oh fog, how I love it!

 

[Hemingway Jones]

... share if you have similar.

I do have these photos taken with the shutter open for 4 seconds and the camera resting on a bridge. These are of Venice, of course:

 

[Fletch]

Venice at night. I am hearing a distant steam calliope for some reason, playing a singysongy air that echoes off the buildings so you can't quite make it out.

I think I've watched too much Fellini.

 

[HadleyH]

That's a very atmospheric picture Cousin Hepcat!
And the music goes very well with it too!

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

I do have these photos taken with the shutter open for 4 seconds and the camera resting on a bridge. These are of Venice, of course:

Thanks All - and HJ, that is one of th *the* coolest architectural photos I've seen :eusa_clap (putting into screensaver rotation)



LadyStardust, what a great description. Would've been fun to've just driven around that night taking pictures of different areas... too bad we can't turn on a nighttime fog like that at the flip of a switch whenever the occasion calls for it


Feng_Li , great picture of the pipe organ, where was that taken?

"It looks like the kind of street where nothing ever happens. But something did happen..."

(que music) "...It was something that had happened a hundred times before on streets like this one, and something that would happen a hundred times again... but what makes our story different, is the dame. Her name... was Evelyn. Evelyn was the kind of a dame who didn't care too much for any one guy. That is, until it happened, this very night, on this very street..." lol



HadleyH - thanks, and the tenor man is one of the most under-appreciated of the era, Canadian-born Georgie Auld.

Starting out as a shining star of Artie Shaw's band, the guy had "it", for sure - one of the most popular & atmospheric tenormen for topnotch studio recordings of the 30s-50s, but no CDs/MP3s. Oh well, atleast there's still tons of his 78s for the juke

another Auld favorite, this one "with strings":
"You'll Love France" (MP3) - goes real well with HJ's Venice pics

- C H

 

[Baron Kurtz]

An unexplainable golden era "feel", with nothing vintage in sight. A riddle, wrapped in an enigma

Just right for a private dick under the lamp scoping out a house, fedora pulled low over his eyes and overcoat collar popped.

bk

 

[cookie]

Venezia

Hem those photos are so beautiful they hurt especially to an Italophile like me. Una propria belezza!

Would it be possible to turn them (with your permission) into a screensaver?

C

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Hem those photos are so beautiful they hurt especially to an Italophile like me. Una propria belezza!

Would it be possible to turn them (with your permission) into a screensaver?

C

Thanks, cookie and Hepcat. I have them in larger format here, at the bottom - just click on them and they get large.
Thanks.

 

[CharlieH.]

Cousin, Hem, those are pictures are the very definition of atmospheric! I find the greener ones to be especially... alluring.

Here's one from my archives. It's not as great as the ones posted, but I still think it has a bit of a noirish feel:

 

[6StringShooter]

these are all fantastic pics!!!!!

 

[dhermann1]

Ah, Venice!

I was there in 2004, just overnight. Anyone who hasn't been to Venice, you must go while it's still there! It's like no place in the world! And it's sinking fast! Those magnificent buildings are built on wooden pilings driven into the mud centuries ago. You can look through cracks in the stone sidewalks and see rippling water below! It's all incredibly fragile. Go! Go! By all means, go!
BTW, I had real scampi when I was there. Sort of a salt water crayfish. Exquisitely delicious! Did you have any when you were there?

 

[Steve]

I took a few GE-inspired shots of downtown Pensacola, FL last fall. Looking back on them now, I think they should have been darker, and taken from different angles. I'll probably re-take them soon.

http://thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=14101

 

[MAGNAVERDE]

Yes, that damp, misty street in the first photo certainly creates a feeling of breathless serenity and--was that breaking glass I just heard?

And with that moody lighting, still water & those closed vistas, the Venice shots could be the opera set for La Gioconda or the soundstage for a scene in a Fred Astaire movie. Great photos, all.