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17-AUG-2005

Canon EOS 20D
1/4s f/5.6 at 17.0mm iso1600 full exif

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Copyright Kal Khogali Š2004-2009. www.kal-khogali.com

Bruce		31-Aug-2006 15:00
Great image..I love it. Funny, I used to think and conceptualize the "meaning" of things... I don't feel the need for such mental gymnastics anymore (most of the time) and simply go for the feast, of a... visual delight. This one does it!

George McCarten		25-May-2006 03:47
This very nearly approximates a dreamscape with terrifying implications. There is guilt, or shame, the rattling of skeletons in the closet.

Guest		12-Feb-2006 18:54
In spite of what has been said, Kal, I think that "Hotel California" is an awsome title for this shot. Without the title, I believe that the image loose all its power and thought-provoking concept: it can be a lot of things according to the viewer, but the essence of the message that you wanted to transmit is lost, in my opinion. Understanding the meaning of the title/song and watching at your image just provoke a kind of frightful chill, a nightmare from where we want to escape in a hurry! The perspective and the blur is amazing... the shadows are really scary :o((( (and I'm not one who gets scary quite easy!) Congrats!! Marisa

Tomasz Dziubinski - Photography		26-Nov-2005 17:30
Superb shot! Vote :)

Guest		15-Nov-2005 11:21
Well, Hotel California would indeed not be a great title for this http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/hotel.htm). I think no title is indeed the way to go here, but then again, I've never been a big fan of titles or captions. The image is great though. Voted.

Kal Khogali		22-Aug-2005 00:37
I will take your advice Ana, and I have removed the title. My concern was whether viewers could see the bars and draw on their significance, perhaps letting their imagination flow is what is needed here.

Ana Carloto O'Shea		21-Aug-2005 22:13
This is a truly amazing and strong image Kal! I couldn't help reading that interesting discussion about the title :) Hotel California might be a little to abstract... Prisoners works wonderfully, but you know what?? I don't think this one would need a title! If you didn't include a title in this one it would still mkaes wonder, it would still let us see the prison bars, we can see the despair on the people and also a strange sense of movement that can even make us dizzy. It's an oppresive, even suffocating image, one that leaves no one indiferent. All adds up to a great work.

Phil Douglis		19-Aug-2005 18:46
Now that you have changed the title from the obscure "Hotel California" reference to a much more accessible title, the viewer can approach this image in an entirely different frame of mind. Your additional post processing work on the bars on the floor makes them somewhat more evident as well. This is now a substantive, surrealistic experience. It is very abstract because of the darkness and the blur -- the whole scene seems to be in motion, and a gaping pit yawns at our feet. You have made that bad dream I mentioned in my first comment much more vivid and by removing the distraction of the Hotel California reference, the image is allowed to grow in depth and meaning, and is not limited only to those who might have already known about that hellish song. There are many more of us out there who did not know what you were saying with that title, and now you reach out and make the image accessible to us as well. Thanks, Kal.

Phil Douglis		18-Aug-2005 01:57
Sorry, Kal. I have no context whatsoever for pop culture. To me, the Eagles are a football team from Philadelphia. And I never saw the prison bars either. Yet this image still worked for me in that the illusion of space and the disorientation of camera shake blur made it nightmarish.

Kal Khogali		18-Aug-2005 00:21
I had this image with what looked like the bars of a prison in the foreground and I was listening to Hotel California a song by "The Eagles" about Hell. It is a a hotel, where we are all guests but can never escape, and we are there because of what we have done. The caption is words from the song. It is meant to be disorientating, a nightmare as you say, and we can't be helped, and we can't help them. Maybe the symbolism of the bars in the foreground has not come through. But if you feel the bad dream, you are more than half way there.

Phil Douglis		18-Aug-2005 00:08
A very abstract and difficult to interpret image. I don't what the Hotel California reference is supposed to represent as context, so I struggle with the reason for the title. As for the caption, it is just as vague. I see a very blurred image of a large room and small people. It seems to be moving, slipping away from under my feet. It is like a bad dream. I can't see who those people and I can't help them. It reminds me of a painful dream I often have -- I dream I have arrived for a workshop, but I am unable to teach because my students are too far away, too distant, to reach. Very frustrating dream. And that is how I feel when looking at this image. What were your intentions?