Today's SNOOZLES™ come from a photographer who had an interesting eye for composition. Why point the camera at something interesting? That's what THEY expect! "I'll show those phonies. I'll show them all! They say I'm mad, but it is they who are mad!" (lightning flashes, thunder booms).
I don't care about that big mountain, or the nuclear submarines, or even that Monorail. What I like is a whole lot of empty sky. Magnificent! I guess I will allow one extra point for including Screechy the Richfield Eagle.
Walt Disney wanted a faithful replica of the original "Columbia" sailing ship, which circumnavigated the globe in six hours (I think). But you know what is really amazing? That pine tree. It's producing oxygen, and pine cones. Pine cones that can be spray-painted gold and covered with glitter for the perfect Christmas decoration. Can you do that with the Columbia? I DON'T THINK SO!
Major-
ReplyDeleteIn the 1st image, our "photographer" was actually aiming for the Bobsled about to 'touch down' & the Kodak Picture Spot sign. Just who takes the time to document those odd balls-? See.
Thanks, Major
I swear, Snoozle Sunday comes about three times a week now!... Or so it seems. I think Time is speeding up; becoming more condensed, like Campbell's Soup.
ReplyDeleteIt actually IS an interesting composition. With the Matterhorn (what we can see of it) acting as an eye-stopper on the left, and Screechy is an eye-stopper on the right, focusing our attention on... well... something... OK, maybe it isn't so great. And (as Nanook noted) there's a yeller Bobsled about to splash through the Alpine lake. Surely, that garners an extra point? The slide might say March, but obviously it was taken near the end of summer; nearly all the snow has melted from the Matterhorn!
Another interesting composition. There are the eye-stoppers again; left and right. We are forced to use our imagination to envision the Columbia. It's there, but not there! The pine tree is there, as Major says, to remind us of Christmases past; to recall our pleasant childhood memories of glittery pine cones.
Six hours sounds about right to me, Major.
In that first photo, we also get two ride operators, on the second level of the Matterhorn chalet. I think they are about to kiss. Actually, I have no idea, but it does make things potentially more exciting.
ReplyDeleteI think we can give the first photo an extra ½ point for including the tip of the roof of the Fantasyland Depot. That reminds us that the first (of three) Monorail storage and maintenance facilities is just beyond, which garners another ½ point. Adding ½ point and ½ point means the photo earns a total of ¼ point. That’s Maths!
ReplyDeleteI think you’re pulling our collective leg that the Columbia circumnavigated the Globe in just six hours. That theater burned down 160 years before the ship was laid down.
If you look really, really closely at the second photo, you can just make out the top of the cave entrance to the Indian Village. That would be a perfect place to store gold-painted pine cones.
Snoozle Sunday (tm) is thought provoking as you are forced to look INSIDE the photo, not just what's on it's surface. Exploring beyond the obvious and digging past the superficiality of "simple" two dimension images...so let's all spend some time......this is the scary dark Matterhorn: before a more "silvery" or more "granite-y" Matterhorn came about. I enjoy how the rocky landscape continues down to the subs: where the "swimming pool" walls are...I think ultimately this all became rocky? On the backside of Matterhorn, the rocks also continue to some drinking fountains across the walkway: which is also a nice touch...unless...they have TRE'd them...drinking fountains may be "verboten" these days (?)....people tend to travel with their HYDRATION STATION giant thermos's (thermi?) and backpacks with tubes to stay hydrated AT ALL TIMES. I honestly do not understand this...other than it was a marketing ploy to sell more thermos's....and now we have "status" thermos....so ridiculous...but to each his own. The little patch of flowers has always enchanted me down by the "splash down": always so very thoughtfully done. Where is the Columbia? In dry dock? or "wet dock" and photo taken from the Mark Twain? I like pine trees but the very few I have are so very fussy and need soooo much attention with special fertilizers and sprays and etc etc etc....seems kind of a lot for something that grows by the zillions in forests. I'm sure it's the type of pine I am attempting to grow...and they do not enjoy the humidity...strange because pine trees are so very thirsty...this one in the photo looks incredibly healthy...as do all the pines generally on the West Side...California sun: it's a thing, and suppose a good marketing plan as well. Speaking of the dry dock...I'm not sure I ever saw it dry...I heard some chatter about Fowlers Harbor and the re-routing of people through and around the Tiana Mountain....with the Haunted Mansion construction walls extending out and la la la la la....lot's of conjecture about the impeding TRE...and cutting off access to Wookie World...it was a lot to listen through....it's interesting how so many speculate, and profit off of the speculation with ads and whatnot's.....thanks Major for being an ad-free environment and these Snoozle Sundays (tm).
ReplyDeleteI’m going to guess that maybe these were taken with one of those cameras where the viewfinder isn’t aligned with the lens and the photographer didn’t know to compensate.
ReplyDeletePhoto 1 is redeemable for all the reason noted. I like it well enough, as JB points out, it comes at the end of hot summer since most of the snow is melted.
Photo 2 just seems like a mistake, which is unfortunate considering the price of film and processing. A sort of Schroedinger’s Columbia, present and yet not present. I’ll bet that at least half of the Pirate’s Trove in POTC is a heap of gilded pine cones with a thin veneer of doubloons over the pile.
Thanks Major, I’ll look at these again tonight before bed, will help me sleep.
JG
Nanook, that’s as good a theory as any!
ReplyDeleteJB, hey! I post some OK pictures now and then! I guess I don’t think of compositions in terms of “eye stoppers”, but I suppose that is possible. Screechy is so much more than an eye stopper. He (she?) has hopes and dreams just like us. I admit that the bobsled does add a point. Pine trees and Christmases past… hmmmm. Nobody likes real Christmas trees anymore, we all like the fake ones that you buy at Target! Especially if it is one of those silver-foil examples. Way better than a crummy real tree. I used to live at a place that was right next to a Christmas tree farm, it was great, it was like a little forest. Better than that animal rendering plant.
TokyoMagic! ha, I didn’t even notice the two in the Chalet. Maybe one of them is Walt Disney! And the other is Roy Disney! “See Roy? I told you it would work”. Walt said that a lot. I hope they don’t kiss.
Chuck, can we really give partial points for something that reminds us of something else?? These points don’t grow on trees! Or maybe they do, I admit I don’t know. I’m glad to see that you appreciate the beauty of math(s) the way I do. I’ve always thought that it was suspicious that the Globe Theatre burned down after they showed “Bio-Dome” starring Pauly Shore. Why would you store gold-painted pinecones when you can just display them?
Bu, Snoozles contain multitudes, though one has to look for them. I do think that the dark Matterhorn looks pretty gloomy, it seems like it didn’t stay that color for long - I wonder who realized that it was just a big bummer? Just like me at parties! I just whine and complain. The edges of the Sub Lagoon were always rocky, unless you are looking at some part that I am not aware of. I don’t mind Hydration Stations, it’s nice to be able to fill your bottle with water for free. I don’t carry a bottle of water around with me at Disneyland, though I have certainly purchased them. Theme parking is thirsty work. I have one of those “camel back” backpacks, but have never used it, the germaphobe in me wonders how you can thoroughly clean the water container inside. The Columbia is in Fowler’s Harbor, where I am convinced that it sits at least 50% of the year. I had no idea pine trees were so hard to grow, my mom had to continually dig out volunteers until she finally had a crew remove the two very tall pine trees from her backyard (one was starting to tilt and she was afraid of it falling and hitting the house). I believe that at the moment the west entrance to Wookie World is indeed blocked off (I think I saw a video about that), but I have no doubt that it will reopen when all of this construction is done. Will they ruin the Haunted Mansion? I admit that I have concerns.
JG, you could be right about the camera/viewfinder thing, though I thought that this was more of an issue with scenes that were up close (resulting in heads being “cut off”, for instance), and not so much for panoramas. I could be mistaken, however. I keep thinking that photo $2 must have something that I am not noticing, or else the photographer was just slow on the draw. It’s not a horrible picture, it’s just kind of funny for being kind of “nothing”.
The Matterhorn chalet still features its open air “crows nest” control room. This eventually would be sealed off with windows and AC.
ReplyDeleteMajor, I wasn't complaining about the quality of your pictures, Snoozle, Blurzle, or otherwise. I only meant that Sundays seem to be coming around quicker than they used to. The passage of time tends to speed up as one gets older. :-)
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