Blue Monday, a photo from 東京, 関東

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Overlooking the traffic on an early Monday morning in Ginza. The working week is starting again.

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ManuMay (36447) 2008-05-12 22:27

Hi Cristian!!

Great view, I love this kind of pictures . . . and blue colour makes me think it is a cold new day. It isnｴt??
TFS
Manuel

dragonslayero (3592) 2008-05-12 22:28

Hello Cristian

Lovely monday mood behind this photo.
I'm currently in Tokyo myself and I understand how some people must feel an early Monday after a quiet weekend.
The head on composition works well for a street photo like this as I feel the traffic and the street balance each other.
I must ask however how you achieved this blue-ish effect, I find it very interesting.
Thank you for sharing.

Odd Jarle

Merline (0) 2008-05-13 4:08

Simple yet elegant composition, most of all I like the mood that comes out of it with that bluish tint, and the motions well rendered of the speeding cars, and all those lines and signs I can't read:-). I wonder if you could have redressed the vertical on the building on the left (I am asking because I have difficulties in doing that...:-).

TFS,
Best regards
Mich鑞e

ricochet (9716) 2008-05-13 12:04

Bonjour Cristian
Un tr鑚 joli point de vue que tu as trouv� l� sur le traffic l馮endaire de Tokyo avec des teintes tr鑚 sympas, bravo � toi!
Eric

marietom (34611) 2008-05-15 2:05

Hello Cristian,

j'aime bien cette ambiance toute bleue. Belle image.
Bonne soir馥
Marie

MayaG (2415) 2008-05-15 5:05

I usually dislike toned B&Ws, but there is something captivating in this image, Cristian. I think that this blue fits so perfectly the glass buildings in the background, giving the image a cold feeling of a big city. I absolutely love the sign (letter) showing on the road, I wonder what it says...(if it's really a letter, that is).
Beautiful work!
regards
Marija

bapun1 (803) 2008-05-15 11:42

Nice blue tone. Brilliant capture of the busy street.

Regards,
Bishnu.

flory (4848) 2008-05-16 23:29

ciao Cristian,
foarte interesanta galeria ta!asta imi place in mod deosebit,o lume albastra si ordonata..:)
numai bine oriunde te-ai afla;)
Flori:)

Dpbours (222) 2008-05-17 14:03

Hi Cristian,

How did you end up in Japan? You're posting quite some pictures lately on Japan. Always nice to see life elsewhere in this sense. I'm looking forward to move towards Asia as well one day and see how life is lived over there.

Greetings!
Dennis

testmaniac (13508) 2008-05-28 6:30

Hello Cristian, good city landscape. Also interesting composition and POV. Have a nice day!
TFS and regards,

Philip

Sado (52) 2008-06-15 12:24

Cool idea. The blueness really adds to the dreadful monotony of the 9 to 5 business life many in Tokyo are probably participating in!

cdmonson (5304) 2008-08-06 20:23

Hi Cristian:

Blue Monday is a good way to put it! I like this very much--the simplicity of only having blue and white give it the drab and cold feeling of an urban setting. I also like that you used a long enough exposure to get some blur on the cars--shows what a fast pace they're going at.

Clark

arturo (31) 2008-08-15 4:07 [Comment]

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kschanna (6) 2008-12-06 2:30

Hi Cristian

Amazing blue overcast. Very well balanced composition, what I like in this shot is that its kind of...redumanised...

Thnanks for sharing
Kamran

marcdemoulin (1870) 2009-02-08 9:24

I don't like Mondays and this shot tells why!!
marc