Timeless, The Forbidden City 2005 by Kal Khogali

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28-AUG-2005

Timeless, The Forbidden City 2005

I hope I bring a different expression to this image than yours Phil! I would love to see what a photograph of this place taken 400 years ago would have looked like, I doubt much different.

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Guest		26-May-2006 19:11
i find this one too static.but it could be effective as a resting point or visual pause within the tradition section.one of your few photos devoid of people.

Guest		14-Jan-2006 21:47
beautiful! Love the directional pull and symmetry of it all-

Michel Carlué		09-Sep-2005 14:23
Excellent symetric composition and wonderful reflection

Chris		06-Sep-2005 15:29
Beautifully done. I would love to visit

Guest		05-Sep-2005 15:48
Frozen Time... Can imagine someone from a time machine landing here!! cheers

Robbie D70		03-Sep-2005 20:14
Hello , I like this image and feel the timeless mood oozing from it. I may of been tempted to cheat a little, by splitting the picture in half and using just the right hand side twice. Getting rid of the box . Just an idea . Great shot neverless

Ana Carloto O'Shea		30-Aug-2005 20:53
I have seen both of the images and despite the little differences in the angle I think that it's in the choice of colour or b&w that we really get a different feeling... Despite my usual preference for colour photos, I think that in this paricular case b&w really makes the image stroger and timeless (like Phil said) The fog that we see in the distance also makes our imagination work and we imagine a million stories about this place. I think you've preserved the mystery here and gave us a beautiful image in the process.

Phil Douglis		28-Aug-2005 18:52
You stand in the same spot I did, Kal, but your image expresses its feeling quite differently than I did in my picture athttp://www.pbase.com/pnd1/image/31309864 Your vantage point is different --a bit higher. You bring the reflection right up into the wall of the moat, whereas I made sure to separate the reflection from the wall to stress the remoteness of the Forbidden City from those who look at it. You use black and white to make the image timeless, to take us back into the past. I use a touch of color to make it a bit more real yet still very old and remote. I also used a focal length and vantage point to distort the wall and make it seem thicker and stronger, intensifying the sense of separation I want my viewers to feel. You choose not to stress the nature of separation, but rather work from the standpoint of time stopped forever. It is a different interpretation entirely, yet each of these images were made of the same subject with a wideangle lens from the same spot. It shows us how the smallest of changes can create large differences in effect and meaning.

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