"Ghosts in the Machine"

Posted by Ian Bramham (Manchester, United Kingdom) on 2 August 2008 in Cityscape & Urban and Portfolio.

City centre Liverpool on a very busy Friday afternoon....the streets were packed with people in the newly opened 'Liverpool 1' shopping district.

Another long exposure photo taken in daylight using a 10 stop neutral density filter screwed to the front of the lens.....the filter induced time delay has rendered 9/10ths of the people invisible. The only ones you can see here are the ones who paused for a few seconds in the midst of the shopping frenzy and as a result they became visible to the camera's sensor.

Try not to think about this too much or you'll end up like believing in dualism like the french philosopher Descartes....."We perceive bodies only by the understanding which is in us, and not by the imagination, or the senses... we do not perceive them through seeing them or touching them, but only because we conceive them in thought" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes

This photo was a 20 second tripod mounted exposure at 10mm focal length and f22.

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Links to the websites of other photographers whose work I love and who have all helped me enormously over a long period of time. I find the work of all 3 to be inspirational.

Hugo Poon
John Leech
Ian Smith

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