This week, I am having a go at combining the WordPress Weekly Photo challenge of Scale with Ailsa’s Travel Theme of Details. This scene was taken deep in London’s underground, on the Jubilee Line. With it’s vast scale, and rather utilitarian appearance, it always puts me in mind of Orwell’s 1984. I have used Nik’s HDR Efex Pro to bring out the textural details, and lend a more moody appearance to the scene:
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This is really a rough beauty – well done combo. I like the roughness and the colours. I’ll have to look out for this next time I go to London!
Glad it interested you, Ann Christine! Next time you come to London, we’ll have to meet up! 😀
Are you living in London? I didn’t know! Of course we must – I go there quite often (?) at least every third year. It would be a real treat for me to meet you – in reality! I have already met three of my fellow bloggers and that was wonderful – like old friends.
I don’t live in London, but am not far away! I would love to meet you! I’m sure it would be just like meeting an old friend, just as it was with Wivi….you must let me know when you are coming and I shall hope I am not away. 🙂
Of course I will tell you – what a treat!
A treat for me, too!
Decided then!
Excellent!
May I join you? 🙂
Ooh, that would be great, Dina! I would love to meet you anytime 😀
This is a great photo 🙂
Thank you! 🙂
a wow!! Great image!
Thanks very much, Cybele!
A really great image for the two themes, Sue. Well done. 🙂
Thank you, Sylvia! Much appreciated
Two themes in go, I’m impressed. It looks really good, Sue!
Wishing you a good start in new week,
Lots of love from the Four of us in Norfolk,
Dina
Thanks, Dina! Have a great week yourself xx
Science Fiction made real. Great photo.
Thanks! 😀
Smashing photo and very good judicious use of Nik’s HDR software Sue. Can so easily be overcooked. This is clearly on the rare side, just how I like it! 🙂
Thanks, Adrian – I just felt it needed a starker look to it and the HDR Efex did the trick…..
Fantastic photo Sue, I have always admired the underground structures in the The Tube but haven’t had the time to photograph it how I would like and you have captured it perfectly 🙂
I took this as a quick shot recently, it just caught my eye…but it does help to carry the camera more often!
this place is amazing
Well, I think it is quite a structure!
That’s certainly an interesting place and image. For some reason it remind me of the Mario Brothers movie from the 90s. It definitely has a utilitarian feel. Nice shot. 🙂
Thank you! 🙂
That is a wonderful photo Sue – it is monochrome but colour, and really emphasises those great structures. To me the Jubilee line is still new, as it was opened when I was at college! I love the sense of not really knowing which way is up in your photo.
Thank you, Anna. Monochrome, but not B&W monochrome, seemed to emphasise the structures, the mood of the place, to me! 🙂
Nailed it in one here Sue. A great image and I love the way you have brought out the textures. Looks quite bleak!
It looks quite bleak in reality, but I wanted to emphasise that even more with the processing. Not too heavy-handed, but just enough to shift the mood slightly!
Great atmosphere in a bit Escher-like
😀
Very interesting composition and use of HDR. Love it!
Thank you, Jane 🙂
This is a REALLY wonderful shot and beautifully post-processed. Definitely Orwellian!!
Thank you, Tina….glad you agree! I just saw those people against the background, and the shot was ready-made……
Have you ever seen Fritz Lang’s film ‘Metropolis’ Sue? This image reminded me of scenes in that. The effect worked so well, proving once again that the photo has to be appropriate to show off such tweaks to the best advantage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_%281927_film%29
Best wishes, Pete.
D’you know, Pete, Metropolis has been on my ‘must see’ list of films for ever and a day – and I STILL haven’t seen it!
Wow…that looks very utopian, great angles!
Utopian, dystopian… Thanks Sherri!
I like the fact that all the tiny people have dull coloured clothes that fit into the utilitarian theme.
That was luck, and a bit of HDR Efex!
Looks good…
Very proletarian. Like a still from the movie “Metropolis”.
So I am told…I have never seen Metropolis….need to rectify that
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This is beauty in roughness … which I love. Just amazing work here, Sue … you’re so talent.
There is indeed a strange kind of beauty in roughness….glad you like it. You will have to stop all the complimentary comments, or I will no longer be able to get my new H&M hat on!!
I’m sure a H&M hat will fit even a big headed like me *laughing … just soak it in.
I love the beauty in some roughness. Your image here … is fantastic. You should go on the open market with your images and let people pay for them.
Maybe one day, after I have moved house….still too many stresses at the moment. A friend of mine told me the other day that I have coped fantastically with all the stresses thrown at me in the last few years….but part of the coping is not to add extra stresses of my own making! Plus the support from all my friends. So…we shall see 😀
There is many websites where they are asking for special images … company wants them for commercial usage. I think you should look into it.
Stress is a nasty thing – but stress is also something we create ourselves and we are very good at it – so maybe take a step back … and have another look at your situation in a different way will help.
I’m not an expert, but that is what I have done.
Your images are very professional … so go for it.
Oh, believe me I have been taking a step back, it’s all part of the coping process. I shall know when I am ready to take on this kind of thing, but I do know it’s not quite yet! 😃
Sue, you’re a smart cookie …. there has big chances in your life.
I have learned to accept that I will have the same problems where ever I’m and that was is a massive relief.
I am a pragmatic person, that’s true. And I know that some environments are not OK for me, but I have accepted that now! 😄
Sue, it took long this for me too … by the way what did you mean 1994????? I can replay on that comment of yours.
I mentioned 1984. Nineteen Eighty Four was a book by George Orwell… there is a Wikipedia article http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
Pretty cool, it really is such a fantastic station. Again people will go about their daily business and ignoret he beauty around them.
Thanks, Shane… I think this station architecture is not to everyone’s liking! Almost Brutalist…