Look Closer
When It Hits
Posted by Viewfinder (Bradenton, FL, United States) on 14 August 2007 in Abstract & Conceptual and Portfolio.
"My mother has an elderly friend in New Orleans, and I did something I never do. I sent her a message: 'You ought to get out, now!'" (quote from Kerry Emanuel, professor of meteorology in the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, and author of the just-published "Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes").
This is the second in a two-part "out of my normal comfort zone" photos which I have post-processed into weird, impressionistic or surreal images. Like today's shot.
Speaking of the weird and surreal, Hurricane season in the Atlantic/Caribbean is in full swing. Thankfully, so far it's been pretty mild. So absent any current major tropical action on the Atlantic side, today's offering is an imaginary representation of what can happen if a hurricane hits a bridge and coastal community.
In real life, it's much, much bigger and far, far worse than this image lets on. Ask those hit by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath; it's almost two years since my beloved New Orleans was drowned. That fact is, to me, ongoingly surreal.
Pentax Optio E10
1/100 second
F/4.8
ISO 100
17 mm