One of the ways that I can lose time on the Internet–one of the myriad, myriad ways–is browsing through the contents of Flickr. Sometimes I just search on strange keywords, or lyrics, or the names of perfomers, just to see what comes up, and spent way more time than I intended flicking through the results.
For example, this isn’t what I had pictured when Gabriel sings “Climbing up on Solsbury Hill / I could see the city light…” but it probably will be what I picture from now on:
I don’t even remember what keywords turned up this one, but it was a great illustration when Sarah and I were discussing treants, and the secret world that most people don’t notice around them:
Sometimes the keywords are more banal–like looking for pictures of places I’ve been or things I’ve heard talk of. For instance, when Trish and I were on our honeymoon in Ireland, there was a lot of news about Jeremy Irons and his pink castle. Now I know what it looks like:
On that same trip we climbed to the summit of Croag Patrick, but I didn’t the decent photos of the surrounding landscape that day because of the fog. It’s nice to correct that after the fact:
And, of course, some of the images have been tweaked in interesting ways. I’m pretty sure this shot of the church in Rozsak Tere in Budapest has had some kind of HDR technique applied to it, but it looks pretty cool.
This also brings back some memories of that trip:
Yeah, I’ve got to rein this in, or I’ll be doing this all night. I wonder what “silhouette” or “chiaroscuro” would get me…
