1st Place, tie Research by Victor Engel by Canon DSLR Challenge

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Research
by Victor Engel


21-FEB-2006	Victor Engel

This is Research Blvd., also known as Highway 183.

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elips		22-Feb-2006 07:01
I love this, Victor, and hope it does well in the voting! I didn't notice the bright area until you mentioned it! I think it adds interest to an otherwise very regimented series of columns, like a door into the unknown. Really fine work! ~Sharon

dprchallenges		22-Feb-2006 00:58
Cindy, I never thought about it that way. I've always liked looking at this road (the new construction that is). I think it has a certain beauty that other roads around town don't have. I really wish I had taken pictures when it was under construction. Some of those scenes were very interesting. -- Victor

Canon DSLR Challenge		21-Feb-2006 23:25
You took something rather ordinary and blah and made it fun. Congrats. Cindy

Victor Engel		21-Feb-2006 23:19
Is anyone bothered by the bright vertical area in the distance? I was at first, but the more I look at the picture, the more it grows on me. -- Victor

Guest		21-Feb-2006 20:48
Victor, you have nailed it!! Just fantastic. -Cat

alexeig		21-Feb-2006 20:04
Love the curve here. A bit too straight for research though ;-)))

Bruce T Jones		21-Feb-2006 18:07
I really like this. Quite different from the usual b/w treatment a subject like this would typically recieve. The repetition pulls you in. Well done!

Canon DSLR Challenge		21-Feb-2006 14:58
My last comment before going to work: I am seated on the approximately 40 degree angled slab of concrete leading up to the underside of the pictured overpasses. The overpasses are the elevated section of the new freeway which is still called Research Blvd. That upper level is lit by sodium vapor lamps. In the distance, also on the lower level, is an intersection with Burnet Road. That bright vertical support beam is illuminated by another light, but I'll have to go back to investigate it's relationship to everything else. For most of the light, though, just look at the sharp shadows on the overpass support structures to glean where the sources are. Since this was the middle of the night, all the lighting is artificial. -- Victor

Canon DSLR Challenge		21-Feb-2006 14:14
This is great. Is the light all from artificial light that's being reflected by the fog? Jim H.

Canon DSLR Challenge		21-Feb-2006 13:19
Great work, Victor. I'm trying to imagine what combination of lighting was at work during the wee hours and this long exposure. You've produced a striking result, whatever it was. .. Lew

Canon DSLR Challenge		21-Feb-2006 11:42
Amazing light, color, repetition, perspective and curves - you've captureed it all in this one image...

Canon DSLR Challenge		21-Feb-2006 11:40
Wow, stunning shot Victor! I am bit confused about the direction of the light. On the right it seems to have one direction whereas on the left it has the opposite direction. Is the sunlit parts of the left structure due to some kind of reflection?