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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.
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!
For some reason the first line of an old John Prine song popped into my head. This is actually a mixture of ice, water, leaves of grass, and part of a cottonwood leaf, all jumbled into a rich stew of nutrients that will feed the new growth in my backyard in the weeks to come. Shooting straight down and very close.
It's a departure from the spare look of my ice shots over the past few days. No elegant, clean lines here. Usually I try for simplification, which maybe I could have found in the leaf itself... but I have lots of close ups of leaves, and thought I'd try something different, organizing the visual elements around complexity instead. I built in a bit of structure by placing objects - the leaf, blades of grass - along the left, bottom, and right sides, leaving the top side open. This was intentional.
Tomorrow I'll be cranking up the wayback machine and revisiting some of my favourite wilderness backpacking adventures from years past. I am grateful to my younger self for being willing to place one foot in front of the other for as long as it took to get into these amazing places. It was a huge part of my life for a quarter century. Ask my knees and back - they'll tell you it's true!
This shot was made in my backyard at the peak of snowmelt in April. Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
"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)
Perhaps no other flowers or plants or other "group" in nature exhibits symmetry than cacti and succulents. I have several examples, but for today I'll start with the spherical Purple Star Amaryllis.
Prior to finding this amaryllis, I always thought the most symmetrical flower was the Scabiosa stellata pod (see below). I also thought that the most common geometric pattern was the five-pointed star. Certainly, five petaled flowers seem to take first prize. Now, except for the new fascination with fractals and the marvelous complexity of the structures in nature that keeps me occupied, does it really matter? ... Maybe it does.
Do yourself a favor, and look up "Patterns in Nature." The first sentence is just beginnings of the study of fractals...
"Symmetry is pervasive in living things. Animals mainly have bilateral or mirror symmetry, as do the leaves of plants and some flowers such as orchids. Plants often have radial or rotational symmetry, as do many flowers and some groups of animals such as sea anemones. Fivefold symmetry is found in the echinoderms, the group that includes starfish, sea urchins, and sea lilies." From there go to everything from snowflakes to planets!
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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.
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Taken in our studio.
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I fell in love with this one and wore it everywhere for a few days!
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Detail of ground level walkway within Keeling House, a modernist apartment block in Bethnal Green, East London. Designed by Denys Lasdun and completed in 1957.
On the deck of the Kaiwo Maru at the Tall Ships Festival in Steveston (Richmond, BC).
To see others' superb photos of the Kaiwo Maru during the 3 day
tall ship festival in Steveston--including the sailors up on the masts unfurling the sails--please go to this Gallery I created: www.flickr.com/photos/130881643@N04/galleries/72157681555...