Boxed in

Posted by Duncan Galbraith (kyoto, Japan) on 29 January 2007 in Abstract & Conceptual and Portfolio.

If your eyes just cant take the pain of the above image, There's a Schreiber Tested and Approved Welding Mask available somewhere. It's most effective apparantly ;)

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Comments (31)

Darren from Japan

Nice shot mate. Really good use of the surroundings.

29 Jan 2007 6:39am

@Darren: Cheers Darren, glad your monitor survived the shock.

Mike Cash from Kiryu, Japan

You go out and make the kind of shots I sit and just wish I could make.

29 Jan 2007 6:39am

@Mike Cash: Cheers Mike. I tell you, you've got the world at your fingertips with your job mate, all that travelling. You're gonna be privvy to some crackin sights mate.

Jerry from Tampa, United States

Good one Duncan - very creative!

29 Jan 2007 10:47am

Shuva Brata Deb from Hyderabad, India

Whatever it is...good work...I like it.

29 Jan 2007 10:58am

@Shuva Brata Deb: thanks Shuva. It's a modern art piece in the centre of kyoto city. It's kind of tucked away behind a department store, down a little back alley. It looks a little sad to be honest, very poorly maintained.

badala from Leiria, Portugal

Very creative.

29 Jan 2007 12:48pm

@badala: cheers badala!

Still from Valence, France

This impressive sculpture seems to be a miracle of equilibre! Your self-portrait in it is a great idea!

29 Jan 2007 2:33pm

@Still: Thanks Still! it looked rather sad standing there, noone really paying any attention, they'd started to build a car park surrounding it I think so I thought I'd give it some attention ;)

Maoya from Rolle, Switzerland

What a creation!

29 Jan 2007 2:47pm

@Maoya: Thanks Maoya!

Damon Schreiber from Toronto, Canada

And I'm putting it to good use lately! Great work. I'd call it 'Duncan in the Sky with Diamonds'.

29 Jan 2007 2:48pm

@Damon Schreiber: ;) hehe. will consider a retitle. thanks Damon!

Francis from Hong Kong

Beautiful shot. Incredible sculpture. Was photoshopped or just a natural reflection? Whatever is was ,its superb!

29 Jan 2007 3:29pm

@Francis: Hey Francis. this was a natural reflection. I have another actually with me reflected in 3 of the boxes but my facial expression was too hideous to use ;)

Suby from Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Awesome work, very abstract without being too abstract

SUby

29 Jan 2007 3:32pm

@Suby: Cheers Suby!

Zach Siebert from Bologna, Italy

ah, there you are. nice contrasts. unreal sculpture. thanks for sharing!

29 Jan 2007 3:48pm

@Zach Siebert: Cheers Zach!

Maoya from Rolle, Switzerland

Came back to check this out, have to add that the perspective with which you captured this is amaZing!

29 Jan 2007 4:00pm

@Maoya: thanks again Maoya. I kind of squeezed into the centre of it, not sure if that was exactly allowed but noone seemed to give two hoots about the thing anyway I figured it'd be ok.

Angry Buddha from United States

Wow!! Great job Duncan.

29 Jan 2007 4:19pm

@Angry Buddha: Thanks Sean!

babylonezoo from Nantes, France

j'aime beaucoup

29 Jan 2007 6:40pm

@babylonezoo: merci beaucoup!

Pedro Ferreira from Portugal

Duncan thaks for the comment, realy nice B&W, great perspective.

29 Jan 2007 7:18pm

@Pedro Ferreira: hey Pedro. thanks to you too mate!

Daniel from United States

Well your definately trapped in that square!

29 Jan 2007 7:43pm

@Daniel: yup. on the weekends i go by "zod". cheers Daniel!

Chris Sullivan from Melbourne, Australia

This reminds me of those scenes from one of the Superman films where the bad guys are trapped in those 2D-square-prism-things in space. Very creative portrait and technically very good, it would have been very easy to under/overexpose this one which you've avoided really well.

29 Jan 2007 10:02pm

@Chris Sullivan: thanks Chris!

Carol from Turkey

Am thinking Rubrics cube...

29 Jan 2007 10:34pm

@Carol: I used to peel off the stickers on those things. mind bendingly difficult! thanks Carol!

Colour blind from Tokyo, Japan

You've managed to make something out of nothing again. I'm impressed with this shot. I wonder if you pp your camera out of the shot?? It would be interesting to find out how you did this. Another wonderful self portrait!!

29 Jan 2007 11:12pm

@Colour blind: Hey Kelly. No cloning out of camera required. just a million takes! I basically squeezed into the centre of the scuplture and shot with camera at waist height.

Michael Zhang from New York City, United States

"Lazer Lines" and tomorrow's shot were both taken at 34th street.

Great idea to place the sculpture (is it a sculpture?) against the sky. It gives it an immense sense of BIG.

30 Jan 2007 12:25am

@Michael Zhang: Thanks Michael. Aye it's a scuplture thats basically been all but forgotten it seems. Cheers for the tour of the city btw!

Pero from Kyoto, Japan

Oh my god. This is a fantastic photo. It seems to have a lot of stories. I am so impressed.

30 Jan 2007 2:17am

@Pero: Thanks Pero!

Martine Lapointe from Québec, Canada

Wow! What a successful!!!

30 Jan 2007 3:04am

@Martine Lapointe: Merci beaucoup Martine!

M.E. from Encino, United States

this is so creative!

30 Jan 2007 4:24am

@M.E.: Thanks M.E!

Stu from Kyoto, Japan

wow! 'nuff said.

30 Jan 2007 4:45am

@Stu: Cheers mate!

H.O from Victoria, Canada

You don't need any word man.... Cool !!

30 Jan 2007 6:57am

@H.O: Domo Arigatou Gozaimasu!

Alfredo J. Martiz J. from Tokyo, Japan

Great shot!

30 Jan 2007 1:48pm

@Alfredo J. Martiz J.: Cheers Alfredo!

Paul Ricciardi from West Hartford, United States

Wow...I don't know what to say...it's surreal, it's disorienting, it's B&W (bonus points) and it's just...very very very cool. I'm at a loss for words...no paragraphs of reflective thinking here...just a big wow.

30 Jan 2007 2:35pm

@Paul Ricciardi: Thanks Paul! Wow is often the best word anyway! ;)