artpost: people like smoke

[foxtongue]

City of Shadows, long exposure shots of crowds in St. Petersburg, Russia by Alexey Titarenko.

via bldgblog.

Comments

[wyldkyss.livejournal.com]

This is beautiful! Thanks for sharing it hun.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

You should check the rest of his site out too, there's some serious gems.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

He's got some of Venice which make me catch my breath.

[mathemavixen.livejournal.com]

Oh!
These are wonderful.
Really truly.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched the little documentary on him yet, (it's on his site), but I'm planning to.

[benpeek.livejournal.com]

that's awesome.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Looks like a movie plague, doesn't it, minus the dusty hands on the railing.

[sr-smith.livejournal.com]

That's absolutely incredible.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Did you look at the rest of his site?

[sr-smith.livejournal.com]

I did. The other images are interesting, but this series is far and away greater than any of the rest.

[jackietheripper.livejournal.com]

those are stunning.
i can feeel them

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I've often wondered what it would be like to see the trails of personal history. I can do it in my mind, see where I was three years ago on the very same corner, but to have a record..

[sepulchrave.livejournal.com]

I'm so in love with long exposures and I suck at them.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

I've decided I need to give it another try.

[daki.livejournal.com]

Wow. Absolutely amazing shot.

The smartass in me keeps wanting to chime in with "even when you're dead you have to take the subway? More proof I need to live forever."

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

It reminded me of the Nightwatch series.

[daki.livejournal.com]

You're right. That is a perfect image of the Gloom.

[rocket-jockey.livejournal.com]

Those are absolutely beautiful.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

They're compelling, hey? I'm not even sure why some are more so than others.

[rocket-jockey.livejournal.com]

I think part of it is the way the people have become a ghostly mist with just hints of humanity ... sort of a feeling of desolation and presence, all at the same time.