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The fifth in this series and trying to find some kind of balanced shot in this chaotic scene is difficult to this is as close as I could get, hence the title.
Here is my 2021 close-up of this remarkable flower.
See my previous post for this year's life-cycle mosaic of it.
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Woodland shots are without doubt my favourite type of landscape images, both to take and to view.
I find them very difficult to execute, but I guess that's part of the attraction. It's often hard to simplify the complexity of neighboring elements, however I quite like all the different lines and colours in this image.
Croxby, Lincolnshire Wolds.
The image looks a whole lot better if you click on it to view it large!
Massive thunderstorm at right squeezes its way towards the camera as older thunderheads collapse and disintegrate at left. At left is the Gold Coast, Springbrook Plateau is to the extreme right. It's about 1230pm.
The Sphere Within Sphere, also known as Sfera con Sfera, is a series of sculptures created by Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro depicting an enormous metal sphere with a cracked surface revealing an intricate interior with another cracked sphere inside.
Arnaldo Pomodoro says that the inner ball represents the Earth and outer ball represents Christianity. The design of the internal layers which look like the gears or cogwheels of a complex machine symbolizes the fragility and complexity of the world.
This sphere is at Trinity College in Dublin Ireland but it can be found at other prime location around the world. Originally created for the Vatican Church in the 1960s, also at the Headquarters of the UN in New York, The Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, USA, The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus and the Tel Aviv University in Israel, to name a few.
Long view landscape
The Snow Roads (www.visitcairngorms.com/inspire-me/snowroads/ ) Scenic Route is a 144-km (90-mile) journey which takes you from the picturesque market town of Blairgowrie to the traditional Highland town of Grantown-on-Spey. The route traverses the highest public road in Britain taking you through some of the most outstanding landscapes in the eastern Cairngorms. The road links the communities of Braemar, Ballater and Tomintoul with a range of natural and cultural attractions. Three stunning Scenic Route Installations provide new opportunities to stop and explore this wild and beautiful highland countryside. A Cairngorms photo-post is also located at each installation to allow you to capture changes in the landscape. With such a range of activities for families, explorers and sightseers alike, take your time to relax with an overnight stay or two in your choice of accommodation along the way and stop at one of the many cafes and restaurants to sample some highland hospitality. Travel the scenic way on the Snow Roads North or South with the opportunity to link to many other areas in Scotland including Royal Deeside, the Malt Whisky Trail or the North Coast 500. The Snow Roads are slow roads. Take your time to enjoy the views, villages and attractions along the route. You will experience steep hills, ‘blind’ summits, tight bends and single-track roads in part so be sure to drive with care and courtesy. On narrow sections, please be aware of other drivers and use passing places to allow others to go by safely and continue on their journey. www.visitcairngorms.com/plan-your-visit/about-the-cairngo... Recommend the Darroch Learg Hotel in ballater darrochlearg.co.uk/.
"Complexity characterises the behaviour of a system or model whose components interact in multiple ways and follow local rules, leading to non-linearity, randomness, collective dynamics, hierarchy, and emergence.
The term is generally used to characterize something with many parts where those parts interact with each other in multiple ways, culminating in a higher order of emergence greater than the sum of its parts. The study of these complex linkages at various scales is the main goal of complex systems theory.
The intuitive criterion of complexity can be formulated as follows: a system would be more complex if more parts could be distinguished, and if more connections between them existed." (WP)
"La complexité caractérise le comportement d'un système ou d'un modèle dont les composants interagissent de multiples manières et suivent des règles locales, conduisant à la non-linéarité, au hasard, à la dynamique collective, à la hiérarchie et à l'émergence.
Le terme est généralement utilisé pour caractériser quelque chose comportant de nombreuses parties, où ces parties interagissent les unes avec les autres de multiples manières, aboutissant à un ordre d'émergence supérieur supérieur à la somme de ses parties. L’étude de ces liens complexes à différentes échelles constitue l’objectif principal de la théorie des systèmes complexes.
Le critère intuitif de complexité peut être formulé ainsi : un système serait plus complexe si plus de parties pouvaient être distinguées et s'il existait plus de connexions entre elles. » (WP)
Spent a lovely long weekend in an Auberge, South of Montreal in the townships. (thank you sister for hooking me up winter fun style) Took a number of shots while out on a snowshoeing adventure through thick forest and mini mountains. T'was a perfect day, with sun, no wind.
The complexity of life, even that of a 'simple' magnolia flower, never ceases to amaze me. And the closer one looks, the more amazing it gets.
Indeed, if we looked even closer than a macro photographer's lens can see, we would observe a level of complexity far beyond our imagination. As in every other living thing, each cell in this magnolia flower contains the DNA for the entire organism. In his book (the Selfish Gene), Richard Dawkins says of human DNA:
This DNA can be regarded as a set of instructions for how to make a body, written in the A, T, C, G, alphabet of the nucleotides. It is as though, in every room of a gigantic building, there was a book-case containing the architect's plans for the entire building.
Dawkins denies that there is a God, yet admits that all living cells contain information (instructions) and even likens it to architect's plans. No matter the medium in which it is stored (paper and ink, compact disk, DNA, etc) information has to have an author or, in Dawkin's analogy, an architect.
Sadly, Dawkins appears to recognise the unavoidable truth, yet still says there is no God. But the Bible says:
For the invisible things of Him [God] from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
(Romans 1:20-22)