Can you tell me anything about this image?
April 15, 2023 10:34 PM Subscribe
I came across this image while idly browsing Pinterest. I love it and want to know more about it -- is it a painting or a stylized photograph? Of what/where? By whom? Could I find a print of it somewhere? Google and Tineye searches have turned up a whole lot of nothing.
Tineye reverse image search showed a tumblr post with a link to this Reddit thread. It seems like a sharper, higher quality version of the image. It’s definitely a photo. The stylization you’re seeing in your image are likely compression artifacts.
I’m not sure if you could get a print, any links in that Reddit thread seem to be broken or wonky in some way. But there’s lots of lovely art of persimmon trees. It’s a common subject in a lot of Chinese landscapes, and southern American ones too.
posted by Mizu at 11:19 PM on April 15, 2023 [2 favorites]
I’m not sure if you could get a print, any links in that Reddit thread seem to be broken or wonky in some way. But there’s lots of lovely art of persimmon trees. It’s a common subject in a lot of Chinese landscapes, and southern American ones too.
posted by Mizu at 11:19 PM on April 15, 2023 [2 favorites]
This is a painting based the the photo
posted by CleverClover at 6:13 AM on April 16, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by CleverClover at 6:13 AM on April 16, 2023 [3 favorites]
I think the stylized aspects are mostly just sharpening and turning up the saturation, although I also note that the writing on the door looks too focused compared to the rest of the blurred building, so that part must have been "shopped" a bit.
posted by polecat at 6:11 PM on April 16, 2023
posted by polecat at 6:11 PM on April 16, 2023
'VCG' of vgc-liweilin is Visual China Group, a stock image supplier that owns 500px.
The photographer's name is Li Weilin 李伟林 (Li family name, Weilin personal name). Here are some more pictures of the persimmons in the village.
posted by Glier's Goetta at 7:06 AM on April 17, 2023 [1 favorite]
The photographer's name is Li Weilin 李伟林 (Li family name, Weilin personal name). Here are some more pictures of the persimmons in the village.
posted by Glier's Goetta at 7:06 AM on April 17, 2023 [1 favorite]
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= 1 hit on pinterest, a reddit with discussion
https://www.reddit.com/r/MostBeautiful/comments/a20vjz/when_the_persimmon_trees_bear_fruit/
When the persimmon trees bear fruit
Photographer: liweilin, probably "liwei lin"
Location: Yanxi Village, Songyang, Zhejiang Province, China
google:
"liwei lin" photographer finds a tumblr with many refs to
vcg-liweilin
https://connor-burrows.tumblr.com/post/181456591032/%E6%B5%B7%E6%B4%8B%E8%8A%B1-by-vcg-liweilin
but name looks a bit like Jim Smith
posted by unearthed at 11:17 PM on April 15, 2023 [3 favorites]