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An artistic close-up framing of a cat's face, captured with a shallow depth of field.
The sharp focus on the nose and the intricate patterns of the tabby fur highlight the inherent beauty and complexity of nature. The strong, warm lighting emphasizes the texture and rich, earthy colors of the animal's coat.
The extreme close-up perspective creates a sense of intimacy, suggesting a close bond between the subject and the photographer. The cat's partially closed eyes can be a sign of contentment and trust, a "slow blink" often interpreted as a cat's way of showing affection.
The geometric symmetry of the face creates an anchor point, symbolizing balance and groundedness amidst the textured "noise" of the fur.
The bright lighting acts as a metaphor for enlightenment or clarity. It transforms the cat’s face into a golden mask, suggesting that beneath the animalistic exterior lies a profound, stoic wisdom.
Cats are often symbols of mystery, independence, and the unknown. Despite the intimate perspective, the cat's slightly obscured gaze maintains a sense of enigma, a common metaphor associated with feline nature.
I have made my first step into the Macro World and I have to say, I find it fascinating. I know that Dandelions are very popular subjects but I am not sure you have seen this interpretation before.
At the first look of this closeup, I have directly seen the allegory with the human brain. Even with less complexity and features, I believe Nature is much nicer graphically.
Adored this tree trunk as it wove its way in a very serpentine fashion through the dense (and still very green) complexity of foliage. Taken in the woods at Whiteleaf Cross, Princes Risborough.
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A jumble of woodland complexity taken on a dreary day but needed to get my tree fix for the day! needs to be seen big for all the details to get lost in :)
Whilst hunting for the remnants of autumn colour, I happened upon this conifer lit up by a shaft of light. The fine branches glowing bright against the dark shadows of its neighbours. I decided to process this in monochrome as although the colour version is lovely in its own right, it didn't really highlight the way the light played on the tree.
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This flower never ceases to astonish me.
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Here is Peggy's mosaic.
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Reflections of a part of the European Parliament in a water basin in front of the entrance building.
Ornate, dusty, old, repurposed, dominated by a tree, ironically beautiful. Basically these apartments are a metaphor for society in general.
On a misty morning in Little Wittenham Wood, these complex forms in the mist provide ample eye candy with their engrossing shapes and earthy hues.
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While in Yangon, Myanmar, I was perplexed by the method being used to construct buildings. I'd never seen so much wood utilized and in such a concentrated area.
I have always loved dandelions! Not just the colour but the explosion if tiny petals that burst out when the sun appears. Took this shot in monochrome and in that medium, the complexity and structure of this common wild flower can be appreciated more.
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Urban detail. Dettaglio urbano. Abstract reality. Realtà astratta. Complessità. Complexity. Cameraphone. Androidography. Bologna 2022
youtu.be/bQWjlkl2klw "Out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving or complexity-conserving engine. It makes complexity and it preserves it and it uses it as the basis for further complexity." -Terence McKenna
The commandments of justice and mercy, indeed of love or the golden rule, have after all inspired historic resistance to lawless aggressions and to oppressive law. The Torah, the Jewish law, is not reducible to legalism or exclusivism, but supports the “struggle for justice and mercy.” 26 Perhaps it is a matter of infusing the commandments within the atmosphere of the Eros: “Arise my love, and come away” is also an imperative—a proposition in the sense suggested in our earlier discussion of truth-claims! After all, the ethics of “should and should not” may also encode, should also encode the divine lure. For without strong supportive structures of community, society, liturgy, theology, the chances are minute that we can individually or collectively even discern the initial aim...
...How does this unforcing force work? By sparking your desire: desire ignites desire. This sparking process takes place largely beneath and before our consciousness. Sometimes glimpsed in a dream, in a stranger’s face, in a flow of grief, a comforting embrace, a surge of music, a private illumination, a public act of truth. In conscience, shame, guilt, awe at a random sunset. The spark is what we hope for in prayer, meditation, worship. We infer it—and cannot in truth make any certain claims about it, as in “God told me this or that; God wills this or that for me.” For it comes already coated in our experience, in our own subjectivity, in the aims of our own socialized desire.
--On the Mystery, DISCERNING DIVINITY IN PROCESS, Catherine Keller
This Christmas bauble was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year. In this case they are for a friend, who like me, elects blue as her favourite colour.
Each bauble is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, except the large butterflies which are 12mm and the central flower which is 8mm. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble. I always leave the flowers and stars until last, allowing a gap in the sequin chain to pin them in.
These baubles are smaller than some others I do, however because it is a complex pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 2 to 2 1/2 hours per side.
It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.