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Published: 2005-12-07 08:57:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 969; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 127
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Description Taken in Iran................... Nah, not really - just getting back in touch with my minimalist roots .

A friend and I went out on a photoshoot to Adelaide's outer suburbs and came across this paddock with some ruined buildings. Not long after I took this shot we were actually both caught trespassing. It was weird because he seemed to appear from nowhere, out of the rubble of buildings. It was even stranger because he suddenly appeared when we started taking shots of this old giant well that was in the ground, covered by an old rusted roof. Maybe there were BONES down there

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Comments: 29

aspirit [2006-06-03 12:23:04 +0000 UTC]

Amazing texture. If you turned it 90 degrees counter clockwise it could almost be a painting of a field of grasses and flowers.

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willko In reply to aspirit [2006-06-08 02:56:59 +0000 UTC]

I see what you mean, might try playing around with it..

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jester81 [2006-02-28 05:58:06 +0000 UTC]

Great texture. Are those bullet holes?

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willko In reply to jester81 [2006-02-28 07:34:22 +0000 UTC]

I suspect so, yes. It looked like someone fired a shotgun into a wall and there wasn't any evidence to suggest that those holes had any purpose.

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Miss-Freak-of-Nature [2005-12-10 19:28:18 +0000 UTC]

you know, it looks like an abstract paint!

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willko In reply to Miss-Freak-of-Nature [2005-12-11 01:10:47 +0000 UTC]

Hehe. That's what I thought. Thanks (Mia?)

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Miss-Freak-of-Nature In reply to willko [2005-12-11 17:44:41 +0000 UTC]

Mia...?! where did you learn it? hahahahaha

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willko In reply to Miss-Freak-of-Nature [2005-12-12 01:22:52 +0000 UTC]

Is that it? I think I saw someone else call you that. Is it right?

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Miss-Freak-of-Nature In reply to willko [2005-12-12 09:13:54 +0000 UTC]

ah hahaha,yep, one of my friend calls me like that, because of my Pulp Fiction ID

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sneeper [2005-12-09 14:50:23 +0000 UTC]

Great shot Will,
It's quite a thing, being ble to isolate
a subject as complex and without
visual anchors as this and make it work. The strong left
side acts as a powerful lead into the detail in the plane, and a
compostional jetty to keep jumping off. THis is an interesting
way to approach composition....

Sneeper

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willko In reply to sneeper [2005-12-11 01:20:45 +0000 UTC]

Why thank you Tom I actually flipped the image 90 degrees CW because the portrait view just looked better aesthetically

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lukeroberts [2005-12-08 11:46:29 +0000 UTC]

awesome work The textures are great and the yellowy/orange colour of it too. The black border compliments it perfectly. To me, this really looks like a satellite photo of the middle-east or somewhere like that

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willko In reply to lukeroberts [2005-12-08 13:24:07 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. Those holes probably are actually from bullets, just some guy testing out a shotgun or something... I wouldn't be surprised

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samueljay [2005-12-08 00:00:31 +0000 UTC]

Looks wicked after editing billy, your eye for minimalism is far superior to mine. God use of vignetting here, and i really like how the shot seems to go from a light to dark transition from left to right, yet the destruction (the bullet holes) become more frequent.
Es maravilloso. Me gusta.

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willko In reply to samueljay [2005-12-08 01:39:04 +0000 UTC]

Cheers Sam. I don't know what the patterns/stains are on the left but they make this shot look more like a painting. Great location you found !

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samueljay In reply to willko [2005-12-10 08:51:18 +0000 UTC]

Thanks much, i believe its paint on the wall. It definitely does look like a war zone though. We should crash some more degraded buildings soon.

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willko In reply to samueljay [2005-12-11 01:14:07 +0000 UTC]

Most definately. They aren't that easy to come by though, and when you do it usually involves trespassing.

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hitchcockm00 [2005-12-07 18:00:18 +0000 UTC]

really cool shot, I like the texture and also the atmosphere it creates, kinda dark and mysterious.

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willko In reply to hitchcockm00 [2005-12-08 01:37:19 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Hitchcock, haven't heard from you in a long time. How you been?

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hitchcockm00 In reply to willko [2005-12-08 13:06:19 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome. Yeah I thought when I saw one of your photos in the message centre that I hadn't seen any new stuff from you for a while.
I've been quite good. How about you?

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th3-k1LLing-m0on [2005-12-07 11:43:23 +0000 UTC]

mmmmm, old buildings, textures......mmmmmmminimalistic...roots. this is wicked man, you know how much i like textures haha, i wish i'd been there to see agro old man, ah well, i'm sure we'll stop off at shit loads of places on the way down to camping

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fallen-princess In reply to th3-k1LLing-m0on [2005-12-08 15:14:31 +0000 UTC]

hahaha it's crazy. when i saw this i thought to myself, "i bet matt is going to look at this and go 'mmm...textures'". damn i was close! you're kind of like homer simpson like that.

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th3-k1LLing-m0on In reply to fallen-princess [2005-12-09 00:17:08 +0000 UTC]

ah yes, homer simpson, he's almost like an idol to me...

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willko In reply to th3-k1LLing-m0on [2005-12-07 15:08:45 +0000 UTC]

Lol I thought you might like this one because of the textures.

YOU COULD HAVE BEEN THERE IF YOU CAME!

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th3-k1LLing-m0on In reply to willko [2005-12-07 23:48:54 +0000 UTC]

argh, i know! i shoulda just come, but i know that i would've seen sooooooo many things that i would've gone, "yeah, my NEW camera would be able to get a decent shot of that" ah well, there will be many more times i hope

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willko In reply to th3-k1LLing-m0on [2005-12-08 01:36:16 +0000 UTC]

There will be

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Artemis-the-phoenix [2005-12-07 10:55:36 +0000 UTC]

hehehe did u get into big trouble ?

Don't you just love the thrill of the chase ( ie chasing that perfect shot)

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willko In reply to Artemis-the-phoenix [2005-12-07 11:06:30 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, he seemed pretty aggravated. But we didn't really care because he was old and we could run faster.

He started asking us what our names were, what we were doing (which was pretty obvious because all we had were cameras). Then he stated that a lot of stuff 'gets stolen around here' to give reason to his paranoid-ness. Oh well, moments like that do give you a thrill

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Artemis-the-phoenix In reply to willko [2005-12-07 11:36:37 +0000 UTC]

hehehe reminds me of my shot of the rail crossing..... I took it with my Friend Tim ~Vumnoo while staying at his place in Melbourne..
A guy drove past and watend to get into the laneway that Tim's car was in.. then he startred asking us if we were "adding or removing" ( the graffiti) so I was standing there with 2 camera's on tripods while Tim moved his car trying to explain that all we were doing was taking photos!
Some people just dont understand *sigh*

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