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When you are North of 60 you realize roads are long. This also puts you in a frame of mind where you experience nature around with all its intricate details. Approaching this cloud formation and the sunset at the end of days journey was really one of the highlights of my recent trip. I was travelling with friends and we all saw something unique in it and the conversation ensued.
Here in the north, we now have a season where both spring and summer alternate. It's been summer for the last few days, so warm, so beautiful. The colors of nature are gentle and soft. And when I look at the surface of the lake, another world opens up.
👱♀️🎧 Another Green World ( Brian Eno ).
We bought this rutabaga the other day, and I couldn't help but photograph it. It's one of the ugliest vegetables I've seen in a long time and I picked this one because it was the ugliest of the bunch :)
Acrylic on Paper
2022
This piece used the leftover paint from the limited color palette of Cerulean Blue, Cadmium Orange Dark, Black, and White. There is always room for iridescent gold and Perl.
It was made using the properties of the watercolor paper wetted down with the acrylics thinned and flowing. I was able to work it into something that I really liked, but it could as easily have been a muddy mess.
For me it is a tree, others see what they will.
Cheers.
Actually, the person who purchased this painting sees beaches, ocean, and land with flowers. They hung it upside down from the way that it is displayed here because they felt the ocean/beach view so strongly.
I still found and see the huge old tree.
Beautiful Chaos - While chaos is often viewed/experienced as unpleasant; it is powerful, life changing....beautiful...
I am often fooled by what I see. What appears to be one thing, is another. Isn't this true when we look at someone. We think they appear to be this person, but turn out to be that person. I mean, we all know what this object is, or do you? What is it you see? Take a look at your self!
Female jumping spider, ever alert, making her way through foliage.
Alert for danger, alert for a mate, alert for a potential next meal.
Dear little spiders, but supremely remarkable, efficient and successful hunters.
Maratus scutulatus 7 mm body length.
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This is a reflection in a puddle on my street...I was on my way home and had already put the lens cap back on when I saw it. I'm very happy I noticed it and got this shot. My son, who is a Dave Matthews Band fan, said he immediately thought of the song "Dreaming Tree" when he saw it. I like how the asphalt above the tree looks like stars...others say it looks like snow falling or the image appears like you're looking through a frosted window to the tree outside.
Macro Monday: #EyeOfTheBeholder
Size of the frame: 7x7 cm / 2,7x2,7 inches
Super late in the game again, because I was quite unsure about this capture... Themes for which we can practically photograph anything are always difficult, so it's not surprising that I found it very hard to choose a subject in the first place. I took captures of this and that, things I find beautiful, but others probably won't, and, you've guessed it, didn't like a single capture. However, while spring is taking a break at the moment, we were lucky to get some afternoon sunshine yesterday, and when I took a look around the room to find something - just anything, no matter what - I could still try to capture, I noticed the light reflection and shadow the sun created with this glass crystal on my windowsill. When I took a few captures, I was just interested in getting the composition right, but when I saw it on the monitor, I thought that especially the light reflection at the centre and the triangle-shaped shadow looked a little like shapes from a Rorschach test. Since it also reminded me of Art Deco, at least a little, I decided to upload this for "Eye of the Beholder" anyway. I really hope you like it :-)
I had to do a lot of dust removal with the healing brush in PS here (and I had just dusted the windowsill a few days before, really, Scout's honour!!!), because the bright sunlight shows the tiniest specks of dust. Processed in Luminar 3 and Analog Efex.
Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922) was a Swiss Freudian psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who developed the famous Rorschach test, "in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both." (Wikipedia) The Rorschach test is used to this day to identify psychological disorders.
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone!
Rorschachtest gefällig?
Ich bin mal wieder spät dran, weil ich mir total unsicher war, ob ich dieses Bild nun zeigen soll oder nicht. Diese Themen, für die man im Grunde alles fotografieren kann, sind immer die schwierigsten und so hatte ich auch keine so richtig zündende Idee, fotografierte dies und das, was ich zwar schön finde, andere aber vielleicht nicht - und war am Ende mit keinem Foto zufrieden. Als uns gestern am Nachmittag doch noch die Sonne beehrte, fiel mein Blick bei der Suche nach weiteren Motiven eher zufällig auf die Fensterbank, wo die Sonne in diesem Augenblick ein interessantes Lichtspiel mit einem Deko-Glaskristall aufführte. Das habe ich dann versucht, ansprechend ins Bild zu setzen. Am Monitor fiel mir dann auf, dass mich die Muster aus Licht und Schatten ein wenig an einen Farbklecks des berühmten Rorschachtests erinnern - und die, so finde ich, sehen ja immer ein bisschen böse aus. Oder? Daher auch meine Unsicherheit bzgl. des Hochladens. Da mich die Formen aber auch ein wenig an Art déco erinnern, habe ich mich entschlossen, Euch das Bild doch zu zeigen. Ich hoffe jdf., dass es Euch gefällt.
Obwohl ich die Fensterbank erst vor wenigen Tagen gründlich staubgewischt hatte (wirklich! Großes Pfadfinderehrenwort!), musste ich in PS ganz schön viel mit dem Bereichsreparaturpinsel "saubermachen" - die Sonne zeigte wirklich jedes kleinste Staubkorn in all seiner zweifelhaften Pracht.
Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922) war ein freudianischer Psychoanalytiker und Psychiater aus der Schweiz, der den nach ihm benannten Farbklecks-Test entwickelt hat, der bis heute eingesetzt wird, um, so Wikipedia, "die gesamte Persönlichkeit des Probanden zu erfassen".
Going back to the area's Civil War-era history, it's said that there was a nurse who once stood on the site of the overlook today, who was quoted as saying, "from this point, on a clear day with a good glass, you can see seven states." Of course, by this, she was implying binoculars - which are always a good thing to bring on a hike up to Lookout Mountain. The science behind Lookout Mountain isn't really a science, it's simply just the laws of elevation. Around the world, there are many great heights that allow one to look over countrysides or entire cities, and this one just happens to be along the border between Georgia and Tennessee. The reason the view is so excellent from the summit of Lookout Mountain is due to its elevation of 1,800 feet. This, combined with the fact that it's less than 150 miles from each state. The exact distances are as follows:
‧ Georgia: you're standing in this one, the mountain is on the border
‧ Tennessee: ½ mile, the mountain is on the border
‧ North Carolina: 50 miles away (Smoky Mountains are visible)
‧ South Carolina: 80 miles away
‧ Alabama: 25 miles away
‧ Kentucky: 120 miles away (Pinnacle Overlook located where TN, KY, & VA all meet is visible)
‧ Virginia: 120 miles away (Pinnacle Overlook located where TN, KY, & VA all meet is visible)
The marker in the middle of the photograph above and the viewing telescopes located at Rock City Point show the information about which states can be visible and how far away they are. This marker, year after year, continues to be one of the most photographed markers in the United States. And you can use the telescopes to see what you can see for yourself...
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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There are no identical snowflakes. Each one is a masterpiece. But how many figures can hundreds or thousands of snowflakes build? Always fascinating...
This one looks like a dog or a tiny dinosaur. :D
An abstract photo…what do you see? I can see a “road” of sorts, going up. I can also imagine this to be the vertebrae or backbone of something or someone. In reality, it’s just a balcony :)
Barbary-Ground-Squirrel-eye_w_0575
The Barbary ground squirrel (Atlantoxerus getulus) lives in rocky habitats from sea level to 4,000 metres (13,000 feet) in the Atlas Mountains of northwestern Africa, and the four species of African ground squirrels (genus Xerus) inhabit savannas and rocky deserts in northern, eastern, and southern Africa.