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Toshio Shibata’s Mesmerizing Photographs of Water [New York Times]
The Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata is fascinated by water — in particular, the way it interacts with man-made structures. For the later half of his almost-40-year career in photography, he has explored this relationship in novel ways, hiding horizon lines and taking the perspective of the water itself with his camera, visually evoking its rushing sound.
Those are really beautiful. Beautiful colors, beautiful composition, beautiful lighting.
posted by lydhre at 3:50 PM on March 27, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by lydhre at 3:50 PM on March 27, 2015 [1 favorite]
Really lovely. Thank you. There is something so calming about the combination of water feature plus clean--sometimes graphic or surprising--lines in the compositions.
posted by weeyin at 4:59 PM on March 27, 2015
posted by weeyin at 4:59 PM on March 27, 2015
These photos (especially this one) remind me of something I learned from Alex Kerr's 2002 book Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan:
During the past fifty-five years of its great economic growth, Japan has drastically altered its natural environment in ways that are almost unimaginable to someone who has not traveled here. ... Across the nation, men and women are at work reshaping the landscape. Work crews transform tiny streams just a meter across into deep chutes slicing through slabs of concrete ten meters wide and more. Builders of small mountain roads dynamite entire hillsides. Civil engineers channel rivers into U-shaped concrete casings that do away not only with the rivers' banks but with their beds. The River Bureau has dammed or diverted all but three of Japan's 113 major rivers.
posted by Auden at 5:52 PM on March 27, 2015 [3 favorites]
During the past fifty-five years of its great economic growth, Japan has drastically altered its natural environment in ways that are almost unimaginable to someone who has not traveled here. ... Across the nation, men and women are at work reshaping the landscape. Work crews transform tiny streams just a meter across into deep chutes slicing through slabs of concrete ten meters wide and more. Builders of small mountain roads dynamite entire hillsides. Civil engineers channel rivers into U-shaped concrete casings that do away not only with the rivers' banks but with their beds. The River Bureau has dammed or diverted all but three of Japan's 113 major rivers.
posted by Auden at 5:52 PM on March 27, 2015 [3 favorites]
There is something about the way people change the world around us. I've long had a love for stacked highway ramps (Seven Corners, south of Washington DC, is a glory to behold).
posted by Deoridhe at 6:10 PM on March 27, 2015
posted by Deoridhe at 6:10 PM on March 27, 2015
I've long had a love for stacked highway ramps
High-Five Interchange.
posted by Fizz at 6:49 PM on March 27, 2015 [4 favorites]
High-Five Interchange.
posted by Fizz at 6:49 PM on March 27, 2015 [4 favorites]
The photo linked by Auden made me want to know more. It looked like an irrigation ditch, but obviously on a steeper slope than normal given the weirs, and the geometry looks different than what I see around here.
posted by Dip Flash at 5:36 AM on March 28, 2015
posted by Dip Flash at 5:36 AM on March 28, 2015
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