Let’s get this into perspective…..

The photo competition this time is on perspectives… in particular the vanishing point of parallel lines, or the vanishing point of a river or road, or anything where the vanishing point is shown, maybe on a smaller scale …. you get the picture? See what I’m after?

The deadline is Friday November 4th at midnight UK time.

Please post your photos in comments. Thank you!

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38 thoughts on “Let’s get this into perspective…..”

  1. OK, I’m on the case, but I don’t think I have anything in my archives, there are too many trees and hills here, but I’ll work on it!

  2. My contribution for what it is worth. Hint: it has a crack in it since the earthquake:

  4. FEEG: Nice one, it was built in two stages about thirty years apart (the civil war and some other politics got tn the way). The stone colour is distinctly different at the join. A tribute to government prevarication.

  8. Pseu: I’m going for the oldest pic ever entered. First Severn crossing under construction 1964 taken from the top of the English tower 500ft, no bridge down there yet.

  9. There is a vanishing point in here somewhere; perhaps the ‘flash’ where my head should appear in the mirror. (Pseu, I have put this one in for the lads.) This was taken in the Gypsy Moth, a pub adjacent to the Cutty Sark, Greenwich. Taken last week.

  13. There’s hundreds of shots of workers like this on the web; they really were made of stronger stuff in the old days. An ineligible entry as, ancient though I am, this is not my photo.
    Harold Lloyd, we salute you!

  21. It strikes me our old friend Toc’s photo would have fitted well into a ‘perspectives’ remit

  23. Bugrit (copyright Terry P and The Bulletin).

    Good evening, Pseu and my apologies. I had not noticed your declared preference for an evanescent parallelity of lines when I decided to lob in my entry.

    Whatever, not a lot parallel about my entry. Still like it myself. Taken a fortnight ago at Chatsworth on the day that Scotland;s chances of advancing into the RWC quarter-finals vanished into the far horizon without trace, as usual,.

    Chatsworth makes me proud to be British for so many different reasons,

  25. Hi Nym.

    Vanishing point of a lane coming up! I’ve been playing with what is, I must admit, a fairly boring photo, so I’ve added a black and white soft focus around the edges. This supposed to focus the eye on the vanishing point, but I’m not sure it it quite what I intended!

  28. This was taken earlier this year in Dickinson County, Iowa. The wind was blowing so hard that I could barely get out of the car. This is one of several pictures I took of abandoned trains. There is a sort of sadness in this area. The buildings show a bright, prosperous past but also show signs of fraying. The Midwest has been hard hit by a changing economy and different expectations of life, especially among younger people. Many head down to Texas or Georgia for better opportunities and more things to do. It’s a pity.

    Corrected, Christopher. Whatever were you doing?
    Charioteers can click on the picture to see a much larger version – Bearsy.

  29. Mr Bear: technology and I don’t mix. No matter what I try, it always goes wrong. The more I try, the worse it gets. Even at the grocer’s the staff half fear me as I am the one who is most likely to pick the item that causes the entire computer system to crash. Once again, thank you for saving me from myself.

  32. Low Wattage :

    FEEG: Nice one, it was built in two stages about thirty years apart (the civil war and some other politics got tn the way). The stone colour is distinctly different at the join. A tribute to government prevarication.

    Hello LW, when I visited DC, I was told by the people at the Smithsonian that the reason for the two tone colouring of the monument was a result of the sacking of Washington by the valiant British Army in the War of 1812. They burned the White House and damaged, or certainly halted the building of the Monument. It was many years later before building resumed and different materials were used.

  33. I took this photo a couple of weeks ago at Mutarazi Falls in Zimbabwe. At 762 m high, they are about the 17th highest in the world, though different sources have different criteria, it would seem.

  34. Sipu :

    Low Wattage :

    FEEG: Nice one, it was built in two stages about thirty years apart (the civil war and some other politics got tn the way). The stone colour is distinctly different at the join. A tribute to government prevarication.

    Hello LW, when I visited DC, I was told by the people at the Smithsonian that the reason for the two tone colouring of the monument was a result of the sacking of Washington by the valiant British Army in the War of 1812. They burned the White House and damaged, or certainly halted the building of the Monument. It was many years later before building resumed and different materials were used.

    The British burnt down the White House in 1812. The Monument was not started until 1848 and the building of it was interrupted by the civil war.

    http://www.nps.gov/wamo/historyculture/washington-monument-at-125.htm

    I think those naughty people at the Smithsonian were winding you up 🙂

  35. FEEG, Oh. Well, I doubt that they were winding me up, I must have got it wrong. I have been wrong once before. There was an occasion when I thought that I had made a mistake. It turned out I hadn’t. 😉

  36. Gosh, doesn’t time fly! This is a view of the track down from The Cave taken last spring.

    OZ

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