Added to Cream Of The Crop as my most favourited.
This was taken at The Big Chill Festival. August 5-7 2005, Eastnor Castle, England. What a fantastic festival!! This bubble was courtesy of Bubble Inc!!
This was the #1 photo by Flickr - Interesting on the date August 11th 2005.
This photo was taken on February 23, 2006.
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_val_, Ryan Brenizer, Rotcoddam, vvt, and 4227 other people added this photo to their favorites.
JůVěŊTįŊå (95 months ago | reply)
AMAZING !!!!
Lucilia (95 months ago | reply)
Wow !!! Amazing !!!
Charloto (95 months ago | reply)
Spectacular.
raysto (95 months ago | reply)
this is fantasticly bubblicious!
emdot (95 months ago | reply)
like a fairytale. :)
Ryan Brenizer (95 months ago | reply)
Wow, great photo, from the tone to the subject to the interplay with the light.
tarotastic (95 months ago | reply)
Fabee: I think I found your jaw!!! Only kidding. Just could not resist.
tarotastic (95 months ago | reply)
Thanks everyone for all your comments. A special big hello to all you 'Big Chillers'!!
vvt (95 months ago | reply)
Wow, cool shot. Wish i had known alot of you flickr peeps were there aswell, we could have had a chill together ;)
Lcs. [deleted] (95 months ago | reply)
Amazing light
Baby Dove (95 months ago | reply)
wow! Doesn't look like it could be real!
wmartyn [deleted] (95 months ago | reply)
Bog Leprechauns
-voted as "saveme" (from the Delete me! group)
Dshalock® Libertarian Emperor of America (95 months ago | reply)
Very unique photo! I like it very much.
-voted as "saveme2" (from the Delete me! group)
cecily7 (95 months ago | reply)
The large version is really messy and his wrists don't look real somehow. How much photoshop was involved here?
the-tml (95 months ago | reply)
Wow, that's a big condom! Texan size?
-voted as deleteme (from the Delete me! group).
niobite (95 months ago | reply)
This image is outstanding.
-voted as "saveme3" (from the Delete me! group)
La Fee Verte (95 months ago | reply)
excellent. magical. nice colours, niec lights, nice fog. i love it.
please let this be a saveme; much worse have gone into the safe.
-voted as "saveme4" (from the Delete me! group)
La Fee Verte (95 months ago | reply)
on look at large size i agree, it is messy; and looks a bit odd; but i stand by my remark and my vote that much worse have made it into the safe.
Ryan Imitates Art (95 months ago | reply)
A little more contrast would be nice.
-voted as "deleteme2" (from the Delete me! group)
buster/ken (95 months ago | reply)
like a movie. pretty amazing. just fine.
robert madeira (95 months ago | reply)
it's a great pciture! the larger version does however unfortunately show blurriness and, what i think is over-sharpening(?)...
deleteme
Joche (95 months ago | reply)
Cloning away some of the reflections would improve this shot. I like how you got his head back lited. Do you have anymore shots from the same scene?
Voted deleteme3 (from Delete Me! group)
Wananga (95 months ago | reply)
I don't like the blue cast. Other than that I love this shot, even with the reflections. But the blue means
-voted as "deleteme4" (from the Delete me! group)
tarotastic (95 months ago | reply)
Joche: Shot loads. However this was all at ISO 1600 as the flash made too much mess when reflecting off the fog!! The problem is all the shots looked great on the camera LCD screen and I was really excited. But when uploaded to the computer most of the shots were too grainy or blurred.
Trying to catch a moving object; in this case a bubble being formed, in these dark foggy conditions is almost impossible in my opinion!! With my skill and equipment anyway!!
tarotastic (95 months ago | reply)
Wanaga: Fair enough!! What you dislike, i really love!! Different strokes, for different folks, I guess!!
La Fee Verte (95 months ago | reply)
i also love the blue; but i am a sucker for blue; about 70% of my favourites are blue.
_devocean (95 months ago | reply)
hmmm... looks like it was technically pretty friggin difficult... i can't be bothered to wait for the big size to download coz i'm on dial up speed, so i can't see the appartent blurriness there
the blue is a bit of a distraction but i think i will help it on its way to the safe anyway
saveme
La Fee Verte (95 months ago | reply)
i agree, cut the guy some slack. most of you ould probably not achieve a photo this good.
myself included of course.
tarotastic (95 months ago | reply)
No brush or blur tool was used in this. The trouser blur might be because he was shivering. It was damn cold!! The fog blowing off the lake probably accounts for some blur too!!
Hourman (95 months ago | reply)
there are some technical problems, but the picture goes beyond all of them. Unique.
-voted as "saveme" (from delete me! group)
ratterrell (95 months ago | reply)
funny i didn't know that the amish did such incredible things with bubbles.
very unique. very cool. i like it and it's amish bubble blowing nature.
-voted as "saveme7" (from the Delete me! group)
RussellReno (95 months ago | reply)
Looks like something from Edward Scissorhands.
Voted deleteme6 (from Delete Me! group)
RussellReno (95 months ago | reply)
Mine s/b 8
cecily7 (95 months ago | reply)
I like this image a lot but the large version is a real mess. I would love to see it with minimal Photoshop and no blue cast.
-voted as "deleteme9" (from the Delete me! group)
tarotastic (95 months ago | reply)
Hourman gave me a delteme 6 tag, so Russel Reno, your tag should be a deleteme 6 and cecily yours should be a delteme 7!!
magic_eye (95 months ago | reply)
Great atmosphere, light, and scene.
-voted as "saveme8" (from the Delete me! group)
tarotastic (95 months ago | reply)
Hourman: please confirm you meant to give me a saveme 6 as that is what is showing up in my "Recent Activity"!!
tarotastic (95 months ago | reply)
cecily7: A real mess?!! Well, if you could imagine some of the difficulties involved trying to shoot this pic, you might not be so harsh. I know how hard to please this group is, but I was hoping that some might realise the technicalities involved in a shot like this, and perhaps see past some of the imperfections!! A lot of what you think was done in photoshop is down to the fog blowing off the lake and the ISO 1600. The shutter speed was also pretty slow to catch the bubble being formed. The blue cast? My personal choice!!
La Fee Verte (95 months ago | reply)
i realise them; there are some awful, boring, technically shite shots in the safe. this deserves to be in there because its so much better than a lot of them. i browsed the safe once, expecting every photo to jump out at me...only a few did; and this did.
Superchou (95 months ago | reply)
I am really on the fence about this one. There are some elements that almost bug me but they are also the same elements that make this kinda unusual and mystical... gonna have to:
voted as "saveme" (from the Delete me! Group)
Superchou (95 months ago | reply)
this one is really gonna be close!
tarotastic (95 months ago | reply)
9-7 at the moment.
I must admit that it is kinda annoying that 1 delete is for the only reason of:
"Looks like something from Edward Scissorhands."
What is that supposed to mean?! I love that film!!
The other deleteme that bugs me is:
"Wow, that's a big condom! Texan size?"
What does that mean?!! It's cool to be funny in your put downs, but.... actually try and be funny.
La Fee Verte (95 months ago | reply)
i can see how it looks like a large jonny; but i dont get the texan reference.
maybe its funny in america... :/
Rentahamster (95 months ago | reply)
Hey now, this is a "cool" shot. ISO 1600, eh? Damn, that's a lot of compensation for this low light shot. It still came out pretty nice with not a lot of noise. It must have took a lot of settings adjustments to get this shot right in this situation.
The unorthodox duo-tone feeling of this shot gives it a lot of character - it captures the nature of the environment quite well.
Plus, of course, I am a fan of the bubbles.
-voted as "saveme10" WOO! (from Delete me! group)
La Fee Verte (95 months ago | reply)
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY.
I can think about going to bed now.
tarotastic (95 months ago | reply)
Rentahamster: "I think I love you, so what am I so afraid of". Fuck yeah!!
Yeeh hah!! Jesters dead!!!
I am so disproportionately happy!! And to be rescued by the Rentahamster. That would be like being rescued from the chainsaw of a serial killer by a Tornado. Or something!!
La Fee Verte (95 months ago | reply)
a rescue from sebastian would be more remarkable.
tarotastic (95 months ago | reply)
domo arigato gozaimashita, rentahamster-chan.
*Bows Humbly*
Rentahamster (95 months ago | reply)
Or something :)
tarotastic (95 months ago | reply)
La Fee Verte: Very nice to meet you. And thanks for your encouraging words!! Sebastian does seem rather dour. I'm pegging him for a Yorkshireman!! I bet it rains whereever he goes!!