Alsace Pipe Dream* - a photo on Flickriver

Alsace Pipe Dream*

            I call this a "pipe dream"* because it is surreal.  In what way? 
I turned the image upside-down.  

NB1 -The more I looked at the original (shot a few years ago), the more I thought that from a composition standpoint, the light part should be at the top. After all, light above, and dark below is how we mostly expect the world to look. I know a portrait painter who, at a certain stage in creating a portrait, turns it upside down. He does so to evaluate his work in the abstract; as a composition. 

NB2 - Also, we conventionally expect at least part of a drain pipe to lead straight down (as it seems to here), even if, in reality, it does not. But if you ponder the image of this pipe a little, its "wrongness" is revealed. The lighting of the diagonal section of it does not make sense. Because of the inversion, the pipe is brightly lit below and dark above. In addition, it now casts a shadow upward. I think the "wrongness" of the pipe adds an almost-subliminal, unsettling undercurrent to the image. 

* "pipe dream" is an old English idiom for any kind of fantasy, including unrealistic expectations. It stems (ha ha) from back when Englishmen first visited the Far East and discovered the illusory joys of smoking pipes loaded with opium.  

Location: Village of Blotzheim, Alsace FR. 
In my album: Dan's Old Architecture.

Taken on: September 21, 2015

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Sets appears in: • Dan's Old Architecture

Groups appears in: • Alsace • Dead Wood more » • Compositions • ANGLES, ANGLES, ANGLES • B Square • Abstract Reality • Haut-Rhin (Alsace) « less

Camera: Nikon D90, f/20.0, 1/160 sec, 62mm (=93mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D90
Lens:	AF-S DX Nikkor 18-140mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR
Aperture:	f/20.0
Exposure Time:	0.006 sec (1/160)
Focal Length:	62mm (35mm equivalent: 93mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Exposure Program:	Shutter speed priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	GraphicConverter 11 (11.1.2)
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