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  • StarryEyed
    StarryEyed Online Community Member Posts: 901 Pioneering

    Quite right. I love the nature shot by @Cherry70 earlier in the thread. So I'm looking at liminal nature photography on Pinterest. Fascinating! Here's a sample ...

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  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Online Community Member Posts: 680 Trailblazing
    edited February 7

    I'd love to chill out in that shack [removed by moderator]

  • StarryEyed
    StarryEyed Online Community Member Posts: 901 Pioneering

    Yes, I'd love to hang out there too!! It looks like a slice of heaven. But just for a short visit or I'd miss people. I do meditations, some of which ask you to imagine a peaceful, safe place. For some reason, although all of these places have a very eerie feel as is typical of liminal spaces, they all feel safe. So I will use them for my meditations.

    What do you think? How do they make you feel?

  • StarryEyed
    StarryEyed Online Community Member Posts: 901 Pioneering
    edited February 7

    Here's another type of liminal space photography - nature taking over abandoned buildings (all from Pinterest). Amazing!!

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  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Online Community Member Posts: 680 Trailblazing

    They don't really feel that liminal to me, but I think liminality is subjective. I do love the atmosphere of the shack one, I love the sack itself, the background, and the mist.

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Online Community Member Posts: 680 Trailblazing

    The first two pics are very liminal to me, and I really like the first pic and the last one.

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Online Community Member Posts: 680 Trailblazing

    Another Ai liminal space, I got ChatGPT to make this one.

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  • StarryEyed
    StarryEyed Online Community Member Posts: 901 Pioneering

    What a beautiful sky 😊

    I've been meditating to this, and it's been awesome!

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    Here are some more fabulous shots of abandoned places from Pinterest thatare listed as liminal spaces ( not sure if they actually qualify). They are so very intriguing....

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  • Carl_Scope
    Carl_Scope Posts: 51 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    These are brilliant! I'm always really interested in the stories of these sorts of places and there's something almost post-apocalyptic about these last few.

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 2,996 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    I love looking at pictures of abandoned places. Water parks tend to freak me out the most, not sure why! Here's one in Vietnam.

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  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Online Community Member Posts: 680 Trailblazing
    edited February 10

    Those are some great pictures StarryEyed, abandoned/derelict places can still totally be liminal.

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  • StarryEyed
    StarryEyed Online Community Member Posts: 901 Pioneering

    Thank you for your compliment. 😊 You're a great teacher! 🙏🏼 And thank you for opening up this world to me. Your space is so awesome as it leaves so much to the imagination, as liminal photos tend to do (I think). Is your scene cold or hot? Sunrise or sunset? Foggy/misty or a blurry shot? Is that a shack or an outhouse? Beautiful.

    @Rachel_Scope , I find those creepy too!! Really creepy! 🤣

    Hi @Carl_Scope 👋🏼😊 Post-apocalyptic comes to my mind too, if not at least on a local scale like the shots by Rachel. I love the contrasting thoughts and emotions in those last ones I posted - apocalypse with rebirth, despair with hope, ugly with beauty, nature with man-made, past with present, obvious with subtle....

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Online Community Member Posts: 680 Trailblazing
    edited February 13

    I never looked at the picture like that before StarryEyed, like, is the scene hot or cold, etc, I can totally see what you mean, I think I'll and look at pictures more from that kind of a perspective from now on, it makes things more interesting.

    In this picture it's interesting how the main room has a warm look to it, but then on the right what looks like the kitchen or laundry room has a very bright cold look to it, then on the left the room is very dark. There's a massive contrast between all three rooms.

    Then there's the stairway, what a weird stairway, and what's up with the little mat at the bottom? Usually mats are at the doors that lead to outside to wipe your feet on when you come in, doesn't seem to make much sense to have one at the bottom of the stairway.

    The place has such a strange atmosphere, I don't think I'd feel comfortable living there at all.

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  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 2,996 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    This is quite a 'famous' liminal space picture. It's actually a hotel at Heathrow airport! I wonder if they get more bookings now just for those who want to experience it first-hand? I also wonder why they decided on this design. It just feels so off and creepy. I would love to stay there though!

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  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Online Community Member Posts: 680 Trailblazing
    edited February 14

    Rachel_Scope, it's like a building indoors with a fake outdoors that's also indoors. It definitely feels very 'off'.

    Here's another outdoors indoors liminal space, which I got Ai to make.

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    It was inspired by this next liminal space image, rather than it feeling creepy I find this one very comforting.

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  • StarryEyed
    StarryEyed Online Community Member Posts: 901 Pioneering

    What a fascinating analysis! And what about the shape of the ceiling arch above the stairway? It makes no sense. And what about the extreme left door with a teensie passageway before another door that you see in the dark? That little passageway makes no sense either. It makes me think of that game that we would play as kids called "what's wrong with this picture?" 😁 Did you ever play that game?

    Also with regard to the contrasting lighting that you note and other comments I made yesterday about opposites, I think the word we're trying to express is "juxtaposition," which is seen in different art forms. Right?

    Given the overall feel to this house, I dread to think what's hidden in that freezer! 🫢

    The ones you and @Rachel_Scope posted today make me think of the movie "The Truman Show." 😊

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Online Community Member Posts: 680 Trailblazing

    Hi StarryEyed, yes I've noticed the shape of the ceiling above the stairs too, kind of like half a hexagon cut out of the ceiling, and you're right it makes absolutely no sense at all. And look at how the banister curves around the wall, so odd.

    I've never heard of the 'what's wrong with this picture' game before, sounds like something I'd enjoy playing, kind of like spot the difference.

    Yes, I think juxtaposition is the correct word.

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Online Community Member Posts: 680 Trailblazing
    edited February 14

    Some of my favourite liminal spaces are the pool rooms.

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  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 2,996 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    I love the pool pictures too. Empty swimming pools really freak me out for some reason.

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    Here's a picture of a hotel I found. Who is building all of these strange liminal hotels!?

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Online Community Member Posts: 680 Trailblazing

    That is a really cool picture Rachel, seems like it's possibly CGI or Ai? Some of the best liminal spaces are CGI and Ai.

    Here's a cool pool rooms video, it's crazy how real some of these liminal videos look.