Camden Market Lock January 2006 | Another

A moment of reflection in the lock at Camden Market

(1748) Posted on 1/31/2006 | 34 Comments

1. Posted by Jim on 1/31/2006 3:39:38 PM
Awesome shot! The title is great!

2. Posted by Drewzer© on 1/31/2006 3:40:31 PM
Wow, that's cool!

3. Posted by stewart on 1/31/2006 11:00:01 PM
A great reflection shot.

4. Posted by Maurits on 2/1/2006 8:08:20 AM
Wonderful picture

5. Posted by Jim on 2/1/2006 8:10:13 AM
BAH I meant the CAPTION is great, my bad... :) Again, great shot!

6. Posted by tony on 2/1/2006 11:15:16 AM
Hi Jim, thank you, thank you .. it's on the way to wisdom!
'By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.'
Confucius

7. Posted by tony on 2/1/2006 11:30:04 AM
Hi Drewzer, thank you, Good to have you stop by.

8. Posted by tony on 2/1/2006 11:33:41 AM
Thanks Stewart .. here's another reflection
'Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.'
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

9. Posted by tony on 2/1/2006 11:35:12 AM
Maurits, thank you .. and on reflection ..
'How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.'
Albert Einstein

10. Posted by tony on 2/1/2006 11:43:56 AM
Jim, another moment for reflection!
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
William Makepeace Thackeray

11. Posted by Odon on 2/1/2006 3:35:06 PM
Great reflection shot! Was you in that window?

12. Posted by Robert K. on 2/1/2006 8:20:32 PM
Awesome shot Tony! Very impressive :-D

13. Posted by tony on 2/2/2006 12:01:30 AM
Thanks Odon. This is looking down into the water of the lock .. and I flipped the photo over .. and here's another quote:
'What we perceive as reality in the so-called outer world is literally a reflection of, and therefore secondary in importance to, the inner workings of our own consciousness.'
David Gardener

14. Posted by tony on 2/2/2006 12:04:27 AM
Thanks Robert ..
'There are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.'
Edith Wharton

15. Posted by Tom on 2/3/2006 7:55:48 AM
It's a lovely composition. I'm trying to work out what the big white loops are. They certainly make it an interesting picture and of course they give a soul something to hang his thoughts on.

16. Posted by tony on 2/3/2006 10:03:42 AM
Hi Tom, thanks. If you turn the photo over and imagine that you may want to climb down into the lock, maybe not what you want to think about but just go with it, and this may lead you one step closer to satisfying your curiosity ;-]

17. Posted by twig on 2/3/2006 1:55:03 PM
I understood the handrails immediately but am totally lost regarding the 'white bubbles' between them. Looks like it's reflected in the water surface...

18. Posted by w|e|s on 2/3/2006 5:17:04 PM
You have such a dali-esque feel to many of your reflection shots. Bravo Tony Bravo...

19. Posted by tony on 2/4/2006 12:20:31 AM
Twig, I think the squiggly white line/bubbles between the handrails is a flag pole and flag reflected in the slightly rippling water of the lock. This building is one of the warehouses that would be used for unloading wood from the narrow-boats to TE Dingwalls timber yard, and it's the place that became 'Dingwalls' the music venue opened in the early 1970s.

20. Posted by tony on 2/4/2006 12:41:31 AM
Hi wes, thank you .. 'dali-esque' .. surreal, an area that interests me, but I know little about. I do know that surrealism developed on from Dada, an anti-art movement that was embraced by the Art establishment, and that surrealists were fascinated by the work of Freud and Jung. Maybe a project here?

21. Posted by aiguille on 2/4/2006 6:09:46 AM
Excellent imagery - the rails certainly cause even more confusion to the scene.
Great work as usual

22. Posted by w|e|s on 2/4/2006 6:10:33 PM
that calls for the "Thursday" discussion over a latte and sweets?

23. Posted by tony on 2/5/2006 10:30:50 AM
Aiguille, thank you. I hadn't thought about the rails causing 'confusion' in the image - I like that idea though.

24. Posted by tony on 2/5/2006 10:33:30 AM
Hi wes, we're off to the Britsh Museum this Thursday for meet-up over tea and coffee, and we'll probably bring along some biscuits - and maybe even talk about surrealism and 'making strange'.

25. Posted by twig on 2/5/2006 3:25:12 PM
You gotta get by a serious veg curry before then...!

26. Posted by tony on 2/6/2006 12:03:02 AM
Hi twig (bulbous!?), definitely, a serious veg curry would go down a treat, but so few places in London do a really good curry.

27. Posted by Douglas on 2/6/2006 5:57:54 AM
This is another iconic anotherphotograph image..! The water is nothing like the welcoming swimming pool conjured here!

28. Posted by tony on 2/6/2006 2:29:52 PM
Hi Douglas, the water is just a ripple representation of reality - a mix of what is and what could be.

29. Posted by Paul on 2/10/2006 8:38:31 AM
... sweeet!!! ... awesome shot, tony.. i love it. .. the handle things give it great perspective as well.. wooo!!! good work as always..

30. Posted by swig on 2/11/2006 2:11:47 AM
...what Paul said!

31. Posted by tony on 2/12/2006 2:51:44 AM
Hi Paul, thanks .. it's good to have you come by .. how have you been?

32. Posted by tony on 2/12/2006 2:58:34 AM
Swig, hi .. as the lock gates open so the image fades away.

33. Posted by angie on 2/12/2006 2:38:34 PM
What an awesome spot Tony! Beautiful reflection!

34. Posted by tony on 2/12/2006 3:37:13 PM
Angie, hi and thanks - I was trying to evoke a sense of how I related to this place in the past, as well as represent something of how it is now.