Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan December, 2014
I took this picture at sunrise from my hotel room. The original was far more faded; I brought up the saturation to make the colour of the sun in the reflection of the windows pop. I only wish I had been able to get a clearer shot. You can see how long the shutter was open by observing the lights of the cars going by on the highway.
The three, in this case, (because the theme today is “three”) are the two buildings and the cars. Yes, a bit of a stretch, but it’s the best I could do in a pinch.
P.S. If anyone knows of any good (and cheap or free) programs for altering photos, I’d love to know. Thanks!
This post is part of K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. To join in the fun with your own digitally altered photo, click here: https://diaryofaninternetnobody.com/2016/04/11/klee-and-dales-cosmic-photo-challenge-4/
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April 12, 2016 at 6:08 am
When I trucked I hauled gas from the refineries in Montreal North to Ottawa. We were back and forth at all hours. In Montreal, on the right side of the Hwy 40 (the Metropolitan) when travelling East approximately at Pie IX there are three attached office towers made of mirrored glass. they are about 12 stories high and sit very close to the Metropolitan. In the late winter and spring mornings, they cast a shadow across the highway and there is a turn in the elevated road at that point. On sunny days, you’d be trucking along on wet roads, hit the shadow cast by what we called the three sisters, and it would be black ice on the turn. Many a vehicle ate the concrete median wall right there. At sundown they reflected the sun and could easily blind a motorist. It was just a good place to slow down.
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April 12, 2016 at 12:08 pm
I remember those buildings! Some Montreal city planner was hopefully fired for that one.
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April 12, 2016 at 2:45 am
I can’t believe this is a sunrise 🙂 Beautiful!
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April 12, 2016 at 12:15 pm
Thank you, Praj. 🙂
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April 11, 2016 at 5:49 pm
I do the same thing with books. I have a stack, okay, two stacks, in my bedroom. Goal: one stack. I don’t know much the technology of photography, but I like the car lights being lines.
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April 11, 2016 at 8:07 pm
Yeah, that’s the trick – getting the stacks to go down before they have a chance to build back up. 😛
I’ve always loved the effect of traffic at night! This is the first time I’ve been able to capture it. 🙂 Thanks, JoAnna!
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April 11, 2016 at 4:48 pm
Linda – your edits really add to the mood of this photo from your hotel room. Like the two strong buildings and all the lights….
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April 11, 2016 at 5:00 pm
Thank you! I’m glad you like it. 🙂
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April 11, 2016 at 5:00 pm
Hope your month of April is off to a great start 🙂 ttys
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April 11, 2016 at 5:03 pm
And yours! 😀 Thanks!
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April 12, 2016 at 5:17 pm
yes it – is going well – just too fast – andmaybe why it was so nice to slow down and soak up this moody image – 🙂
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April 11, 2016 at 3:45 pm
Wonderful, thank you for participating Linda!
We hadn’t actually fixed on whether we were doing a theme each week, until we had some other folks contributing; K’lee threw that out there and I happened to have used three for my collage.
I love the graded shadows on the tower blocks, great photo.
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April 11, 2016 at 4:05 pm
Thanks, Dale. 😀 So glad you like it.
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April 11, 2016 at 3:20 pm
Right now Google is offering Nik for free. Check it out and read some reviews. I just got it and am still playing around with it.
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April 11, 2016 at 3:22 pm
Cool, thanks, Emilio! I’ll look it up. 😀
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