Hurricane
Pictures have a Beauty all Their
Own
by Bob
Pardue
Pictures
of hurricanes
This interesting
article addresses some of the key issues
regarding photography and pictures of
hurricanes. A careful reading of this material
could make a big difference in how you think
about this subject.
By now, most of us are
aware of or somehow indirectly or directly
involved with Hurricane Katrina . Or, most of us
have seen pictures of hurricanes that blasted
the East or Southeastern coasts that
weren’t named Katrina.
As contradictory as it
sounds, many pictures of hurricanes, pictures of
hurricanes’ aftermath, and aerial and other
shots have been published or posted, pictures of
hurricanes that are beautiful in an uncanny way
but beautiful nonetheless—provocative,
poignant, or perplexing as they are.
Accompanying the news and
scientific technicalities and details at
NASA’s site are pictures of hurricanes.
(http://www.nasa.gov/vision/
earth/lookingatearth/hurricane_2005.html) They
are the representations of these awesome
phenomena, and yet they have an eerie beauty and
majesty to them.
Individual pictures of
hurricanes are as impressive as collections all
over the web. For example, photo coverage of
Hurricane Lili is featured online at
(http://www.vivasancarlos.com/hurricane.html),
depicting views photographed during Expedition
Five.
Now that we've covered
those aspects of hurricane photography, let's
turn to some of the other factors that need to
be considered.
Find stock travel
and model
photos at
Bob
Pardue Photography
for your magazine, newspaper, or annual report.
Thousands of images to choose!
In similar respect, I want
to direct you to a site with pictures of
hurricanes that, with all due reverence, have
been creatively altered. Go to the site
Worth1000.com (with which I have no affiliation,
just appreciation for the brilliance of the
artists), and do a search for pictures of
hurricanes…or browse the Best of or Contest
categories.
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At Worth1000,
besides thousands of modified cars (two
cars melded to create an awesome
prototype), gender swap creations (a
celebrity of one gender is modified to
have the attributes of the opposite
gender),
Renaissance
painting revisited (the artists change
the faces and bodies of a classic piece
of artwork, so that a movie stars face
and body takes the place of the
original), and many many more oddities,
you will find categories of
photo-shopped, modified, creative
constructions that turn straight
pictures of hurricanes into artful,
sometimes clever, sometimes
commemorative images.
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One image wherein the
artist uses pictures of hurricanes features a
crumpled trailer as an artist’s rendering
of the trailer contents. The one-dimensional
switch is eerily apt in representing the
devastating potency of hurricanes.
In another Photoshopped
vision, the artist makes use of the prompt tow
work with the elements, and shows the shoreline
100 miles away from a hurricane. In yet another
set of pictures of hurricanes, an artist shows
before and after images—said by many
viewers to be some of the most awesome pictures
of hurricanes ever.
Again such photos of
hurricanes, in this writer’s opinion, are
not apathetic attempts at attacking, minimizing,
or disregarding the responses and feelings of
those left in a hurricane’s aftermath but
are testaments to the near omnipotent
magnificence of the hurricane as we
unfortunately know it. After all, even a
hurricane is one of God's creations so why
shouldn't it be awesome?
The day will come when you
can use something you read about here to have a
beneficial impact. Then you'll be glad you took
the time to learn more about pictures of
hurricanes.
Bob Pardue is a professional model and travel
stock photographer located in the Southeastern
USA. His photos have been published worldwide.
You can view some of his work at either
www.bobpardue.com or Bob
Pardue Stock Photography
.
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Pardue - All
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