Stamps!

A way to communicate and commemorate

On special occasions or to commemorate some event are issued special stamps, and some concern things, events, people or animals around the "Fast and Slow" theme:



Greek Stamp of the tortoise and the hare story of Aesop
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Texts/Aesop/THE_HARE_AND_THE_TORTOISE.html



The snail, symbol of slowness
http://animalonstamps.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/

A sloth, another slow animal
http://www.zazzle.co.uk/sloth_stamp_postage-172443744754406431

 

The panthera pardus, a very fast animal
http://www.stampsbook.org/theme/2-Mammal-40.html



Historical stamps concernigs some fast Ferreari cars
http://www.coolstamps.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?type=search&search=minor&minor=nascar+-+formula+1&shop=stamp-search&amount=10&num=4



Photographic Techique

How to capture the movement 

The panning technique is used to suggest fast motion, and bring out the subject from other elements in the frame. In photographic pictures it is usually noted by a foreground subject in action appearing still (i.e. a runner frozen in mid-stride) while the background is streaked and/or skewed in the apparently opposite direction of the subject's travel.

Subject in focus and blurred background.

Blurred subject and background in focus.

http://gerasimone.altervista.org/2007/fotografare-il-movimento/

http://ste95.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/le-foto-in-movimento-si-fanno-con-la-tecnica-del-panning/

http://www.fotografia-digitale.info/tecniche/560/catturare-leffetto-movimento-in-fotografia/

The couple of adjectives: suggestion

Which picture is better for you to represent "Fast and Slow"?

The hare and the tortoise, undisputed symbols of  fastness and slowness.