A lovely photo of a plastic bag

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Photographer Edi Go made a beautiful photograph of an ugly plastic bag.

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"Elastic" by Edi Go (Behance, via Imaginary Foundation)

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I feel like my heart is going to cave in.
mccrum

The lesson to take home here is: Backlighting kicks ass.
- xzzy
  
  Up until the sun gets involved, anyways.
  - mccrum
    
    Unless you just use the sun as backlight.
lbigbadbob

I think there might still be time to save Kevin Spacey.
http://twitter.com/TheNewsIsBroken Gern Blanston

The podcast A Way With Words was recently asked the question if there was a word for homeless plastic bags. There was not one word but they postulated these options “witches’ britches” or “witches’ knickers”. Another was “urban tumbleweeds”. Great podcast if you enjoy the wordy things.
eli laztanguren

True American beauty
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JK6YIN6HE3GFHI2EI76LD5KUT4 David
  
  Yes, it does remind me of that awful movie.
  - niktemadur
    
    Not without merits. Sure, it may disappoint in spots and stretches, but two extraordinary elements from that movie remain:
    1. Ordinary dinnerware, flipped over, boom! A swastika.
    2. That plastic bag dancing in the wind, right before the first snow.
    
    However and overall, agreeing with you, “American Beauty” is not fit to hold the jockstrap of something like “Das Leben Der Anderen” (“The Lives Of Others”).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mennonot/sets/ mennonot

So is the difference between picture three and four on the linked page (on behance.net) simply a matter of HDR or is there some other lighting aspect that was changed?
Palomino

It’s subversive, Woody Harrelson and his Ethos documentary would tell you this is propaganda to get American’s to think trash is beautiful, and I would agree with him.

I can’t believe one of our worst environmental choices and the number one cause of plastic beads in our oceans and seas is being photographed as art. It’s just another gorgeous mushroom cloud.

I think the photographer simply edited the turtle out.
Dicrel Seijin

I can’t deny that it’s beautiful. Without context, I would have guessed dyed silk in water.

Thankfully, legislation has been introduced in Hawaii to stop all use of plastic bags (and even one-use paper bags).
Palomino

I change my mind in one aspect, this image shows how the high quality of today’s photography equipment has become, and the color is beautiful too. Instead of a white cloud on a blue background, I see a blue cloud on a white background.
photodawg

To quote Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1939, “The world is falling apart, and Ansel Adams is out photographing rocks.”