Banana World

Don Ellis · 26th of April 2003 (Sat)

I'm down out of the trees now and I spent the last couple of days creating a new gallery at...
http://www.kleptography.com/gallery-bananaland.htm

The notes will explain...
http://www.kleptography.com/notes-bananaland.htm

Cheers,

Don

eland · 26th of April 2003 (Sat)

A very interesting and polished presentation, Don.
Well done.

Regards
eland

henkbos · 27th of April 2003 (Sun)

Very well done and great shots. Thought for an instant that kleptography was done by a kleptomaniac!

Jorge · 27th of April 2003 (Sun)

The gallery surely is an interesting and well-told tale from the treetops. The combination of artistic, illustrative and story telling elements are very well integrated – and highly original too in the way that the concept of “macro” is taken beyond the usual numb flower shot. Makes me want to climb a tree and dig out the world from a banana bulb.

Don Ellis · 27th of April 2003 (Sun)

Just when I think that nobody checks in here -- or any other forum -- over the weekend, I'm pleasantly surprised.

Thanks, eland... high praise from a very particular person. I appreciate the compliment. I still need to tweak a few things -- like offering metric as well as English units and expanding a bit on my comments -- but I wanted to get it up.

Henk... much appreciated... thank you. "Kleptography" was something I created in my own little mind and referred to the American Indian belief that a photograph stole your soul. It was only after registering the name and putting up the website and a few months later searching Google to see if it appeared that I found that kleptography is the art of "using cryptology against cryptology." Had I known that originally, I would have thought up another name -- as it is, however, the galleries have become a more popular search item than the secret stuff.

Jorge... thank you for taking the time to tell me what you liked. I'm glad you liked the macros -- I should have probably weeded a few more out, but you can never tell what people like, so I left them in. I've never been a "big bug" guy... there has to be a little more going on in the photo to make it interesting for me. When you climb that tree remember that this whole show unfolds in about four days and those flowers (and their visitors) dry up fast. Good luck -- I found it fascinating.

Bookmarking -- in case anyone has bookmarked the gallery, I've changed the name and the URL (changed in the original message as well). The original "banana life" was supposed to be a take-off on "banana leaf" but I decided that no one but me is going to get it and it doesn't really roll off the tongue. So it's now "banana land" which is a bit more euphonic and much better than "going bananas."

Thanks again for visiting and for writing.

Don

slejhamer · 27th of April 2003 (Sun)

Great work, Don. Nice to see your themed galleries again; I hadn't looked in a while. Some of the new banana shots are almost 3-D in appearance - creative shooting angles and good color saturation.

CyberDyneSystems · 27th of April 2003 (Sun)

I saw my first Banana tree in a Hot house when I was about 9. I had just seen the movie,. "Day of the Triphids"

They are absolutely astonishing plants and truly look as if they came form another world. Most of us have no Idea while slicing them on our cereal.... we just picture a cartoon palm with bananas hanging off....

Wonderfull pictures!

Don Ellis · 27th of April 2003 (Sun)

Quote:

slejhamer wrote:
Great work, Don. Nice to see your themed galleries again; I hadn't looked in a while. Some of the new banana shots are almost 3-D in appearance - creative shooting angles and good color saturation.

Very kind of you to take the time to itemize.

Thanks for your generous comments.

I will say that while it's nice to add a picture here or there to individual galleries, it's a greater pleasure to focus on a single subject and take enough photographs to create a new gallery. There's something very satisfying about shooting and unveiling an entire project -- especially in less than a week -- and this one rekindled my interest in photographing the unseen lives around us.

Cheers,

Don

Roger_Cavanagh · 28th of April 2003 (Mon)

Very nicely executed, Don.

Regards,

marie · 28th of April 2003 (Mon)

don

last evening when I tried to view all the pictures the computer was really playing up, on a go slow , a go slow to beat all go slows
zzzzzzzz
it was very difficult to get things moving at all.
took hours to do certain things which should have took around twenty minutes . so I only got seeing one or two pictures,

but I got the whole lot of your photographs now and see all your comments on them ,
and loved all as it makes a great difference to read the remarks accompanying each picture

some favourites
http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_wasp9669.htm
http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_context9479.htm (like choir boys )
http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_context9738.htm
http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_stalk0007.htm
http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_bulb9839.htm
http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_red9895.htm
http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_red9533.htm

http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_japanese0114.htm

http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_wasp9861.htm
http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_wasp9489.htm
sorry for putting all these here but I hadn't seen all the pictures properly
they came in lovely and easy this evening. it made such a difference
the colours and presentation are unbelievable.
those colours all blend so well together.
really so beautiful.
nature shows us what colours really match up .
some of the shots show the bananas looking like a group of choir boys. sometimes they are like ribs (joint of meat ribs) sticking out
all are beautiful, most unusual and very interesting.
marie

pappy · 28th of April 2003 (Mon)

What a fantastic series Mr. Ellis, amazing prhotographs.

Your site is very professionally presented and I view the photos often and find them a tremendous source of inspiration.

Regards,
Peter

Don Ellis · 29th of April 2003 (Tue)

First all, thanks to everyone for stopping by the banana tree... specifically...

CyberDyne -- thank you for your very kind words. Glad you enjoyed the photos.

Roger -- thanks, as always, for your comments; it's always good to hear from you.

Peter -- praise to live up to... thank you. I'm glad you find the site useful and I appreciate your comments.

And Marie -- what would we do without our indefatigable photographer, reporter, and muse. I always love hearing from you, even if, in the back of my mind, I wonder if you shouldn't be spending more time doing something other that keeping us company. But forget I said that... your thoughts, digressions, critiques and observations are very welcome. It was especially kind of you to link to the images you like best. I'm always surprised and pleased when someone points out a personal favorite that I was thinking it was just average -- it reminds me not to be quite so severe when separating the keepers from the discards. That's why I left in so many wasp photos -- I figured people would have their favorites. Thanks as well for pointing out the missing "a" on "camera."

I don't know when everyone looked at the gallery but it was probably not in the last few hours. I knew I was missing one piece in the banana puzzle but didn't find it until last night. I had taken a casual shot of the bud over a week before I decided to get serious about shooting the new bananas. It's not a brilliant picture, but it's the only one I have of the bud before it starts opening, so it's really the beginning of the story...

A slightly larger version is at http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_context9442.htm

Cheers,

Don

bgaras2001 · 29th of April 2003 (Tue)

hey..really enjoyed that. great stuff

marie · 29th of April 2003 (Tue)

thank you so much don
I appreciate very much what you said

http://www.pbase.com/image/16079587

this little banana thanks you very very much also

http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_context9738.htm
http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_bulb9839.htm
the colours in these ( your shots ) are really beautiful
I already have them on above post but just to emphasis them . their colour and detail.
hard to pick out any real favourites
I only didn't put more on in the other post because I thought it was not the thing to do. at all
: )
am glad it was ok
lucky you didn't put on all the shots, which you took and discarded : )
must have been a difficult job sorting them all.
all of us see different things in different pictures and deciding what others may like is difficult.
you obviously loved all of these.
it shows

many thanks again
marie
thanks for the last picture here
great info

26th of April 2003 (Sat)	#1
Don Ellis Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Hong Kong Posts: 1,538	Banana World I'm down out of the trees now and I spent the last couple of days creating a new gallery at... http://www.kleptography.com/gallery-bananaland.htm The notes will explain... http://www.kleptography.com/notes-bananaland.htm Cheers, Don

26th of April 2003 (Sat)	#2
eland Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 603	Re: Banana World A very interesting and polished presentation, Don. Well done. Regards eland

27th of April 2003 (Sun)	#3
henkbos Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 923	Re: Banana World Very well done and great shots. Thought for an instant that kleptography was done by a kleptomaniac!

27th of April 2003 (Sun)	#4
Jorge Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 138	Re: Banana World The gallery surely is an interesting and well-told tale from the treetops. The combination of artistic, illustrative and story telling elements are very well integrated – and highly original too in the way that the concept of “macro” is taken beyond the usual numb flower shot. Makes me want to climb a tree and dig out the world from a banana bulb.

27th of April 2003 (Sun)	#5
Don Ellis Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Hong Kong Posts: 1,538	Re: Banana World Just when I think that nobody checks in here -- or any other forum -- over the weekend, I'm pleasantly surprised. Thanks, eland... high praise from a very particular person. I appreciate the compliment. I still need to tweak a few things -- like offering metric as well as English units and expanding a bit on my comments -- but I wanted to get it up. Henk... much appreciated... thank you. "Kleptography" was something I created in my own little mind and referred to the American Indian belief that a photograph stole your soul. It was only after registering the name and putting up the website and a few months later searching Google to see if it appeared that I found that kleptography is the art of "using cryptology against cryptology." Had I known that originally, I would have thought up another name -- as it is, however, the galleries have become a more popular search item than the secret stuff. Jorge... thank you for taking the time to tell me what you liked. I'm glad you liked the macros -- I should have probably weeded a few more out, but you can never tell what people like, so I left them in. I've never been a "big bug" guy... there has to be a little more going on in the photo to make it interesting for me. When you climb that tree remember that this whole show unfolds in about four days and those flowers (and their visitors) dry up fast. Good luck -- I found it fascinating. Bookmarking -- in case anyone has bookmarked the gallery, I've changed the name and the URL (changed in the original message as well). The original "banana life" was supposed to be a take-off on "banana leaf" but I decided that no one but me is going to get it and it doesn't really roll off the tongue. So it's now "banana land" which is a bit more euphonic and much better than "going bananas." Thanks again for visiting and for writing. Don

27th of April 2003 (Sun)	#6
slejhamer Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,758	Re: Banana World Great work, Don. Nice to see your themed galleries again; I hadn't looked in a while. Some of the new banana shots are almost 3-D in appearance - creative shooting angles and good color saturation. __________________ Mitch

27th of April 2003 (Sun)	#7
CyberDyneSystems Wait, all that time and all I get is "Cream of the Damn Crop" ?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Providence RI Posts: 37,446 IMAGE EDITING OK	Re: Banana World I saw my first Banana tree in a Hot house when I was about 9. I had just seen the movie,. "Day of the Triphids" They are absolutely astonishing plants and truly look as if they came form another world. Most of us have no Idea while slicing them on our cereal.... we just picture a cartoon palm with bananas hanging off.... Wonderfull pictures! __________________ GEAR LIST CDS' HOT LINKS My POTN Share Threads Jake Hegnauer Photography

28th of April 2003 (Mon)	#9
Roger_Cavanagh Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 1,394	Re: Banana World Very nicely executed, Don. Regards, __________________ ============= Roger Cavanagh www.rogercavanagh.com

28th of April 2003 (Mon)	#10
marie Cream of the Crop Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: republic of Ireland Posts: 20,864	Re: Banana World don last evening when I tried to view all the pictures the computer was really playing up, on a go slow , a go slow to beat all go slows zzzzzzzz it was very difficult to get things moving at all. took hours to do certain things which should have took around twenty minutes . so I only got seeing one or two pictures, but I got the whole lot of your photographs now and see all your comments on them , and loved all as it makes a great difference to read the remarks accompanying each picture some favourites http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_wasp9669.htm http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_context9479.htm (like choir boys ) http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_context9738.htm http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_stalk0007.htm http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_bulb9839.htm http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_red9895.htm http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_red9533.htm http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_japanese0114.htm http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_wasp9861.htm http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_wasp9489.htm sorry for putting all these here but I hadn't seen all the pictures properly they came in lovely and easy this evening. it made such a difference the colours and presentation are unbelievable. those colours all blend so well together. really so beautiful. nature shows us what colours really match up . some of the shots show the bananas looking like a group of choir boys. sometimes they are like ribs (joint of meat ribs) sticking out all are beautiful, most unusual and very interesting. marie __________________ Regards,Marie. CanonG12, GIX( <gift from my son) : )dslr 40D.Canon lens 24-105Lmm10-22mm,17-40,17-85, 70-300,60mm

28th of April 2003 (Mon)	#11
pappy Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,161	Re: Banana World What a fantastic series Mr. Ellis, amazing prhotographs. Your site is very professionally presented and I view the photos often and find them a tremendous source of inspiration. Regards, Peter

29th of April 2003 (Tue)	#12
Don Ellis Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Hong Kong Posts: 1,538	Re: Banana World First all, thanks to everyone for stopping by the banana tree... specifically... CyberDyne -- thank you for your very kind words. Glad you enjoyed the photos. Roger -- thanks, as always, for your comments; it's always good to hear from you. Peter -- praise to live up to... thank you. I'm glad you find the site useful and I appreciate your comments. And Marie -- what would we do without our indefatigable photographer, reporter, and muse. I always love hearing from you, even if, in the back of my mind, I wonder if you shouldn't be spending more time doing something other that keeping us company. But forget I said that... your thoughts, digressions, critiques and observations are very welcome. It was especially kind of you to link to the images you like best. I'm always surprised and pleased when someone points out a personal favorite that I was thinking it was just average -- it reminds me not to be quite so severe when separating the keepers from the discards. That's why I left in so many wasp photos -- I figured people would have their favorites. Thanks as well for pointing out the missing "a" on "camera." I don't know when everyone looked at the gallery but it was probably not in the last few hours. I knew I was missing one piece in the banana puzzle but didn't find it until last night. I had taken a casual shot of the bud over a week before I decided to get serious about shooting the new bananas. It's not a brilliant picture, but it's the only one I have of the bud before it starts opening, so it's really the beginning of the story... A slightly larger version is at http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_context9442.htm Cheers, Don

29th of April 2003 (Tue)	#13
bgaras2001 Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 120	Re: Banana World hey..really enjoyed that. great stuff

29th of April 2003 (Tue)	#14
marie Cream of the Crop Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: republic of Ireland Posts: 20,864	Re: Banana World thank you so much don I appreciate very much what you said http://www.pbase.com/image/16079587 this little banana thanks you very very much also http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_context9738.htm http://www.kleptography.com/bananaland_bulb9839.htm the colours in these ( your shots ) are really beautiful I already have them on above post but just to emphasis them . their colour and detail. hard to pick out any real favourites I only didn't put more on in the other post because I thought it was not the thing to do. at all : ) am glad it was ok lucky you didn't put on all the shots, which you took and discarded : ) must have been a difficult job sorting them all. all of us see different things in different pictures and deciding what others may like is difficult. you obviously loved all of these. it shows many thanks again marie thanks for the last picture here great info __________________ Regards,Marie. CanonG12, GIX( <gift from my son) : )dslr 40D.Canon lens 24-105Lmm10-22mm,17-40,17-85, 70-300,60mm

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