Thursday, June 21, 2007

On The Straight And Arrow

Where Are We, Mate? In Los Angles?

Photographs copyright: DAVID McMAHON


No, I haven't rotated the image above, or tinkered with it in any way. I just thought I would walk under this huge neon sign and shoot it. Does this image force you to look twice? The angled neon sign, to a multi-level car park, is rectangular, about a couple of metres high and six or seven metres across. The blue arrows show the ``in'' lanes and the red circle shows the ``out'' lane. It's a viewpoint that challenges your perspective (and your powers of perception) because there is no ``normal'' point of reference for the eye.

Now look at the second frame, below. It's taken from further back and gives you a couple of points of reference - the street lamp and the floodlit building. All of a sudden, your brain can place the neon sign in perspective. I guess you could say it's a bit like a visual jigsaw puzzle.

4 comments:

Bart said...

Neat.

Yeah, I got nothing, but wanted to contribute.

FHB said...

I was gonna say, some sort of stop sign. Cool.

david mcmahon said...

Hi Bart-Man,

You always have something to contribute, even when ya got nuthin!

Cheers

David

david mcmahon said...

Hi, FHB,

Good deduction, Sherlock. Straight to the top of the class.

Cheers

David