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16-MAY-2005 Lonnit Rysher

* A Tall Order

Canon EOS 10D ,Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
1/125s f/2.8 at 24.0mm iso100 with Flash full exif

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Guest 23-May-2005 02:15
Wow, this is an amazing perspective! It really looks like you have a really, really high ceiling, and for some strange reason you have a table very close to it. It almost makes me dizzy looking down toward the "floor".
Ioana
alexeig22-May-2005 12:39
Beautiful reflections and wide angle, they seem to be ready to take off and fly
Canon DSLR Challenge20-May-2005 03:29
I think where others get messed up is when they want to be like 'modern Americans'. Like the way many women will bottlefeed thier babies - especially once they come here. They try to get away from the 'old way' so they can be modern. :( I also see it in 1st generation families here. The parents, from the 'old country' are trim, and their children who are being raised here are overweight. I am seeing this particularly strongly in the Asian children, although the East Indians don't seem to be following suit on this, thankfully. East Indians do tend to have a much more lean, smaller bone frame, ectomorphic body type to begin with, so maybe they are just genetically prone to stay thinner, than the Chinese, who tend to be a bit shorter and slightly more endomorphic in structure. I also notice around here, that it seems that the East Indian families tend to keep more to thier traditional ways than the other Asian peoples, in terms of their eating. If I go into an East Indian restaurant, I see virtually 99% East Indian people, and I don't see them as often in other types of restaurants. If they are sticking to more traditional meals, they are buying ingredients from scratch, so they aren't getting the processed foods laden with chemicals which cause the addictions and obesity. On the whole though, I am not aware of any 1st generation children here with ADD or ADHD. All those I know of are 'white' in the schools and in my support group. I think it needs to build up a generation and then it hits in the second generation. So, hopefully, new arrivals will stick to thier traditional foods as long as possible, and not get caught up in this disgust. I just wish we could be more influenced by thier ways instead of us rubbing off on them.
~ Lonnit

About the wine, red wine is even better for women, since it contains an enzyme which is not processed by the woman's body...at least someone told me that, so...
Guest 19-May-2005 23:33
Lonnit, just since you brought it up, the highest number of fat people I've seen was in the USA. I travelled through Europe also and I didn't notice it. Here in Latin America the population is not so wealthy, maybe that's the cause of less processed food, also cultural reasons, obviously.

About the wine, red wine is even better for women, since it contains an enzyme which is not processed by the woman's body...at least someone told me that, so...
Canon DSLR Challenge19-May-2005 03:40
Funny you mention that because hubby caught that episode and we discussed it over a long, leisurely, and small breakfast at a coffee shop this morning! And I'm telling you the concept works b/c it kept both of us full all day. :)

One point the woman missed though, is that American food is full of chemicals (some of which have the sole purpose of causing one to become addicted to the foods). Europeans don't eat petroleum based flavorings and colorings, which are in over 80% of the foods found on our supermarket shelves! This is also why ADHD rates in American children are the highest in the world. I know b/c I've got 3 kids who have very serious reactions to these chemicals. We started the Feingold Elimination Diet (Feingold.org) a few months ago and symptom after symptom disappeared when we cut out all additives. Now if I eat something with additives, I can taste the phony flavorings and the bitterness of the chemicals. It's truly gross. Our obesity rates are hideous too. It's hard to lose weight if you're chemically addicted to junk food. This is one thing the French are really doing right. :) ~ Lonnit
janewigginsphotography19-May-2005 00:03
On Oprah yesterday, they discussed why French women aren't fat and that's because they eat very little and drink lots of wine. They eat very little but they take hours to do it in. Funny thing about wine is that it's gone in an instant (for me anyway)! You might have noted my obsession with wine in the last challenge...oh wait...now I'm obsessed by food.....drat. jano
Guest 18-May-2005 01:01
I like this a lot. Colors and comopsition (great use of diagonals). Great idea!
-Jose Pablo.
Canon DSLR Challenge17-May-2005 15:55
I'm not really into wines so I'm glad I stumbled upon something you approve of. :)

The picture does indeed appear upside down. It is actually a palm tree. ~ Lonnit
Guest 17-May-2005 14:13
GREAT Lonnit... I really thought the bottle was on the edge of the table... amazing reflections, and amazing perspective... very good... and what makes it perfect is that you chose a Cabernet Sauvignon as the subject ;-)
ctfchallenge17-May-2005 12:32
aaahaaaa much much better lonnit. wtg. -Abstract
ctfchallenge17-May-2005 10:53
I like it alot Lonnit. Correct me if I'm wrong but if that picture on the wall was clear it would appear upside down, right? Rich
ctfchallenge17-May-2005 02:45
Ahhhh, Paul.... your words are music to my ears! I wanted to set my audience topsy-turvy on this and there you are, brain sparking and glitching all over! Love it! LOL! As for the "moon on the water" reflection - I didn't realize that and it is a very cool added bonus! Thanks for pointing it out.

In the time it took you to write your comment, I was busy cloning out the reflection of the light fixture, so, since you were happy with the shot before, I hope this didn't detract from it. ~ Lonnit
Paul 17-May-2005 02:38
This is great. I thought it was a trick or composite photo at first and didn't read your explanation. Even staring at the photo it's hard to visualise exactly how it's done. The light through the window at the top right looks like moon reflecting off water but if this is a reflection then it can't be..i think...it's doing my brain in.

I don't find the ceiling fixture to the bottom left distracting.
ctfchallenge17-May-2005 02:27
Thanks. :)

About the ceiling fixture reflection - I was back and forth over that and couldn't decide. When I even cloned out the little dot reflection in it, it seemed to throw off the balance of the image. Perhaps I will give it a try to wipe out the whole area. ~ Lonnit
ctfchallenge17-May-2005 02:06
even without reading your explanation, i liked the shot. disproportion through reflection/perspective...cool conept, Lonnit.
btw, is there anyways to get rid of that chandelier from the bottom left corner? -Abstract
janewigginsphotography17-May-2005 01:58
I really like the angles here. It has the perspective of hanging from the ceiling when you see the wall in the background. The bottle and wine glass then have a beautiful reflection on the table. This is really great! (wishing I had black lacquer table with gorgeous wall) :) jano
ctfchallenge17-May-2005 01:49
NOTE FROM LONNIT:
I just loved the complete distortion of perspective here. It seems like the bottle is immensely tall b/c there is a bit of uncertainty about where the bottle ends. Additionally, there is an effect that bottle and glass are way above floor height and that the horizontally striped area behind the bottle and glass could be the floor, and that we are also looking down towards the bottom of very tall glass block windows - thier tallness indicated by the assumption that the picture on the wall is at standard eye level. Here's the reality - this was taken on my black lacquer dining room table. None of the floor is visible. The entire background is just the adjacent wall reflected in the table top. I thought it was pretty cool - how 'bout you? :) ~ Lonnit