Gateway

Posted on June 13, 2011 by spilledinkguy

This is what happens when you set your camera directly on a large metallic landmark and frantically jab at the shutter release button.

Oops I did it again… I posted an arch…

My red vinyl’s all in the wash… Oh what a shame… Oh, baby, baby…

(wasn’t that a Britney Spears song?)

Original Gateway Arch post here…

About this image: digital photograph, lightly modified

62 thoughts on “Gateway”

Syncopated Eyeball on June 13, 2011 at 2:15 am said:

Wonderful, SIG!

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- spilledinkguy on June 13, 2011 at 10:50 am said:
  
  Thanks so much, S.E.!
  I’m glad you liked it!
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Laura on June 13, 2011 at 4:11 am said:

Great shot, but what is it? It looks like the obelisk from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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- spilledinkguy on June 13, 2011 at 10:52 am said:
  
  Thanks, Laura!
  Hahaha… I can see that.
  It’s the Gateway Arch in downtown St. Louis…
  or… is it?
  *dun dun dun dun dun dun*
  *e-e ah-ah*
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Lenore Diane on June 13, 2011 at 5:56 am said:

The clouds look like they are moving … I think the lines add to the illusion. Great shot, SIG!

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- spilledinkguy on June 13, 2011 at 10:52 am said:
  
  Thank you very much, Ms. D – I really lucked out on that!
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The Good Greatsby on June 13, 2011 at 7:47 am said:

I like it. I can’t tell if I’m looking up or looking off into the horizon.

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- spilledinkguy on June 13, 2011 at 10:53 am said:
  
  Thank you, good sir!
  Yeah, this is camera resting on the side of the arch looking up-ish.
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Jillsy Girl on June 13, 2011 at 8:11 am said:

I’m assuming this is your gateway arch….very cool perspective!!

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- spilledinkguy on June 13, 2011 at 10:54 am said:
  
  You’ve got it, J.G.
  And thank you very much – that is quite kind of you.
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Jb on June 13, 2011 at 8:34 am said:

Dude that is cool. But I think you missed Superman.

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- spilledinkguy on June 13, 2011 at 10:55 am said:
  
  Hahaha…
  He really was faster than a speeding bullet… for a second there I thought I had him, but turned out I was way to slow! 🙂
  
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Eden on June 13, 2011 at 9:09 am said:

Very cool. Love the clouds.

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- spilledinkguy on June 13, 2011 at 10:56 am said:
  
  Thank you, Eden… sometimes they just work with you… which is nice.
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journeytoepiphany on June 13, 2011 at 9:24 am said:

Very cool image. You should come to Chicago and photograph the bean. I’d love to see your perspective on that!

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- spilledinkguy on June 13, 2011 at 10:58 am said:
  
  Thanks so much!
  I’ve always wanted to visit Chicago…
  I’ve seen some pretty cool photos of many Windy City attractions!
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Redneckprincess on June 13, 2011 at 10:32 am said:

Great shot!! and lol @ jb 🙂

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- spilledinkguy on June 13, 2011 at 10:58 am said:
  
  That guy’s a riot, isn’t he?
  Thank you very much, RNP!
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Derrick on June 13, 2011 at 11:34 am said:

Fascinating shot, Inky – quite cool!

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- spilledinkguy on June 13, 2011 at 11:48 am said:
  
  Eee-Eee-Eee
  *translation*
  Thank you, sir! 🙂
  
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  - Derrick on June 15, 2011 at 9:28 pm said:
    
    LOL – what’s with all this sir stuff?? Not like you’re talking to my dad. 😉
    
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    - spilledinkguy on June 15, 2011 at 11:09 pm said:
      
      I’d hate to be rude and scare off my ~~captive~~ audience! 🙂
      
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- Tony McGurk on June 15, 2011 at 6:49 pm said:
  
  Hey I didn’t see Barry & Cedric in that video…
  
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  - spilledinkguy on June 15, 2011 at 6:59 pm said:
    
    They are A list celebrities now, Tony… that’s a lot of dough for a production to have to come up with! 🙂
    
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Kieran Hamilton on June 13, 2011 at 11:57 am said:

What an awesome black and white, I love all the lines reaching up towards the clouds!

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- spilledinkguy on June 13, 2011 at 12:05 pm said:
  
  Thanks so much, sir!
  I was very fortunate it was a nice day with some interesting skies… I think it made a world of difference in this one. 🙂
  
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ramoncito17 on June 13, 2011 at 12:55 pm said:

Somehow it reminds me of a science fiction movie! Love the picture! Do you live near the arch? I used to visit St. Louis back in the early ’90’s and find the arch very fascinating.

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- spilledinkguy on June 13, 2011 at 12:59 pm said:
  
  Thank you very much, sir!
  We used to live near enough to see it from the top of our street (just outside the Saint Louis city line). We currently live about 30 – 40 minutes away or so… which is a bit of a bummer, because there always seems to be so much happening down in that area. 🙂
  
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milkayphoto on June 13, 2011 at 1:29 pm said:

Very clever! I, somehow, get a sense of looking out the cockpit window of an airplane, looking onto the vastness of all that lies ahead….

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- spilledinkguy on June 13, 2011 at 2:10 pm said:
  
  Wow – I can’t believe I didn’t see that before, but now that you mention it, M.P. this does look very similar to an airplane wing…
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  - milkayphoto on June 13, 2011 at 2:17 pm said:
    
    Well, no actually, not the wing but you know when you are so high up that you can actually see the square grids of how the land is laid out (especially farmland)?? THAT is what I see when looking at this image.
    
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    - spilledinkguy on June 13, 2011 at 3:05 pm said:
      
      Oh YES! I see that!
      Good call, M.P.!
      Random follow-up – I’ve plowed a field before. My driving wasn’t nearly as straight as these farmers’, though.
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      - frigginloon on June 13, 2011 at 8:05 pm said:
        
        Exactly what I thought Milkayphoyo. I like the idea of a plane wing though.
      - spilledinkguy on June 13, 2011 at 8:08 pm said:
        
        Now that you guys mention it, I can’t stop seeing that either…
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      - Derrick on June 15, 2011 at 9:29 pm said:
        
        plowing sucks!! My rows looked like the crayola art your 3 year old would give you.
      - spilledinkguy on June 15, 2011 at 11:11 pm said:
        
        Hahaha –
        mine, too. I was promptly returned to rock picking.
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Robert X. Jones on June 13, 2011 at 5:08 pm said:

I agree with Tracy, it looks like landscape heading off toward the abyss. A ‘Here be Dragons’ sort of landscape going off the map. Very cool shot Robert, really.

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- spilledinkguy on June 13, 2011 at 5:38 pm said:
  
  Thanks very much, Mr. J!
  This is one of those shots I took a million years ago, looked at recently and re-edited with a completely different ‘feel’. It’s funny how my mood at the time completely changes the way I approach an image…
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Jason on June 13, 2011 at 7:16 pm said:

Has an “edge of the world” feeling. Nice.

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- spilledinkguy on June 13, 2011 at 7:41 pm said:
  
  Thank you very much, sir – that is very kind of you! 🙂
  
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Bearman on June 13, 2011 at 9:06 pm said:

Is that farmland?

Damn. I posted this commment (above and was one of the first) but for some reason it never took. Now I know what it is after reading all the comments I know what it is so dont think I don’t know.

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- spilledinkguy on June 13, 2011 at 9:23 pm said:
  
  I never doubt a Bearman.
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Binky on June 13, 2011 at 9:17 pm said:

That is really neat! At first I wondered why the farmland was reflecting the clouds, and then I read your description. Very unique perspective.

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- spilledinkguy on June 13, 2011 at 9:25 pm said:
  
  Thanks, Binky – I thought it might be fun to try something a bit different than the classic angle most people have seen so many times.
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thedailydish on June 14, 2011 at 8:51 am said:

This shot is FANTASTIC! I never knew how they managed the metalwork – but thanks to you, now I do!

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- spilledinkguy on June 14, 2011 at 11:08 am said:
  
  Thank you Dishy – that is very kind of you!
  It’s full of neat… stuff. To get to the top (and back down) you sit in these little-egg shaped pods that ratchet and rotate on the way up (to account for the curve)… a bit claustrophobic, but pretty cool, really. 🙂
  
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youngamericanwisdom.com on June 14, 2011 at 10:19 am said:

Very cool. At first, I thought it was an aerial view of farmland.

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- spilledinkguy on June 14, 2011 at 11:11 am said:
  
  You know, I didn’t see that at first (probably because in my mind I kept associating it with downtown STL), but a few people have mentioned that, and now I see that, too! 🙂
  
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Jayne on June 14, 2011 at 10:24 am said:

I love it. It looks like I’m standing on the wing of an alien spaceship, looking out at the sky.

This unusual angle of a famous structure reminds me of a TV programme I saw featuring comedian Billy Connolly travelling around Australia. He photographed the Sydney Harbour Bridge … from about 6 inches away from a piece of girder. He was partly being funny because he said he liked to say ‘and this is the Sydney Harbour Bridge’ and see people’s reactions, but he partly also admires the human talent involved in the design and engineering of structures like this and so he was showing the most relevant aspect of it to him. I like that alternative and creative way of looking at things.

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- spilledinkguy on June 14, 2011 at 11:15 am said:
  
  Very cool, Jayne. I love structures… and the effect that time has on them (so fascinating). Sadly I’ve never been to Australia, but naturally I’ve studied quite a few photos of the Harbor Bridge (and the Opera House, of course). I think every now and then it’s fun to see these iconic feats of engineering from a different angle, or examine some of the tiny details that make them up…
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Unapologetically Mundane on June 15, 2011 at 2:44 pm said:

I actually thought this was a shot of fields from an airplane at first glance; it’s just the view out the front door of my childhood home in Ohio. Except the Earth hasn’t dropped off that sharply on the Eastern edge since the 1400s, of course.

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- spilledinkguy on June 15, 2011 at 6:46 pm said:
  
  Seems like it could very well be that, doesn’t it?! I honestly didn’t notice that at first (guess I couldn’t separate myself from the experience of visiting this structure), but a few people mentioned that, and then it seemed so true…
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Tony McGurk on June 15, 2011 at 6:50 pm said:

I really love the surreal effect of this shot. Great work Robert.

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spilledinkguy on June 15, 2011 at 6:58 pm said:

Thank you so much, Tony!
That is very kind of you, sir! 🙂

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Juana on June 20, 2011 at 12:28 am said:

It’s…. It’s….. It’s…. Alright- I don’t know what it is. But I like it!!

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- spilledinkguy on June 20, 2011 at 10:21 am said:
  
  This is an extreme close-up of the Gateway Arch in downtown St. Louis, Missouri…
  I thought I’d try a slightly different angle with it (since it’s been photographed so many times already).
  Thank you very much, Juana – you are always very kind! 🙂
  
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Annabelle on June 20, 2011 at 10:47 am said:

Awesome! Look! There in the sky! Its a bird! Its a plane! Its… Its… NELLY!!!

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- spilledinkguy on June 20, 2011 at 11:25 am said:
  
  Fly WIt Me would have made a great follow-up to Ride Wit Me.
  
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nigel on June 21, 2011 at 2:25 am said:

You have a very interesting set of photographs. I’m enjoying going through them, very cool!

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- spilledinkguy on June 21, 2011 at 6:45 pm said:
  
  That is terribly kind of you, Nigel!
  And thank you so much for stopping by – I really appreciate it! 🙂
  
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timm on June 21, 2011 at 7:51 pm said:

Killer Shot!!!

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- spilledinkguy on June 21, 2011 at 7:53 pm said:
  
  Thank you, sir!
  It’s a very interesting place!
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