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As if the natural processes taking place to beautify our deciduous trees at this time of year were not enough, we have the work of these tiny artists, the Aspen leaf miners, diminutive worms which leave these tracks as they suck out the juices of the aspen and alder leaves. They have infested a vast area near the Yukon / Alaska border in recent years. They don't kill the trees, but definitely affect arboreal complexions. As the leaves go through their annual fall transformation, the evidence of their feeding that these tiny beasts leave behind lends a wild, almost unreal aspect to many areas of deciduous woodland.
I digitally created this abstract image using my photo of some Crocus. You can still see a few Crocus.
Explored 21st July 2008.
Rescued this poor snail from my daughter..of course I had to take a pic first!
No animals were harmed during the making of ths pic!
Pentax K5 (full spectrum converted) camera plus S-M-C TAKUMAR 35mm f3.5 with KolariVision IR Chrome filter. Uncropped.
Day 18 of Pentax Forums Daily in October 2020 Challenge.
Theme: Technology
Some really simple light-painting in the Sentinel Works building. Effect achieved by '60s wallpaper in the 1st room left, blue LEDs in 1st room right, red head torch 2nd room right and general yellow cast from sodium street lamps and white lights from neighbouring LED security spots. The simple straight lines of the building help.
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no Psychotropic drugs were used during the creation of my image but it's supposed to be Pop Art style lips
a big thanks for having a look at this one ....very much appreciated ....... best bigger ......... hope you have a Great Day
The Beatles recorded "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" in March 1967. The song has been recognised as a key work in the psychedelic genre.
It was written primarily by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership. Lennon's son Julian inspired the song with a nursery school drawing that he called "Lucy – in the sky with diamonds". Shortly before the album's release, speculation arose that the first letter of each of the title nouns intentionally spelled "LSD". Lennon repeatedly denied that he had intended it as a drug song. He attributed the song's fantastical imagery to his reading of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books.
John Lennon said that his inspiration for the song came when his three-year-old son Julian showed him a nursery school drawing that he called "Lucy – in the Sky with Diamonds", depicting his classmate Lucy O'Donnell. Julian later recalled: "I don't know why I called it that or why it stood out from all my other drawings, but I obviously had an affection for Lucy at that age. I used to show Dad everything I'd built or painted at school, and this one sparked off the idea." Ringo Starr witnessed the moment and said that Julian first uttered the song's title on returning home from nursery school. Lennon later said, "I thought that's beautiful. I immediately wrote a song about it."
According to Lennon, the lyrics were largely derived from the literary style of Lewis Carroll's novel Alice in Wonderland. Lennon had read and admired Carroll's works, and the title of Julian's drawing reminded him of the "Which Dreamed It?" chapter of Through the Looking Glass, in which Alice floats in a "boat beneath a sunny sky". Lennon recalled in a 1980 interview: It was Alice in the boat. She is buying an egg and it turns into Humpty-Dumpty. The woman serving in the shop turns into a sheep and the next minute they are rowing in a rowing boat somewhere and I was visualizing that.
Paul McCartney remembered of the song's composition, "We did the whole thing like an Alice in Wonderland idea, being in a boat on the river ... Every so often it broke off and you saw Lucy in the sky with diamonds all over the sky. This Lucy was God, the Big Figure, the White Rabbit." He later recalled helping Lennon finish the song at Lennon's Kenwood home, specifically claiming he contributed the "newspaper taxis" and "cellophane flowers" lyrics. Lennon's 1968 interview with Rolling Stone magazine confirmed McCartney's contribution.
Rumours of the connection between the title of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and the initialism "LSD" began circulating shortly after the release of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP in June 1967. McCartney gave two interviews in June admitting to having taken the drug. Lennon later said he was surprised at the idea the title was a hidden reference to LSD, countering that the song "wasn't about that at all", and it "was purely unconscious that it came out to be LSD. Until someone pointed it out, I never even thought of it. I mean, who would ever bother to look at initials of a title? ... It's not an acid song."
McCartney confirmed Lennon's claim on several occasions. In 1968 he said: When you write a song and you mean it one way, and someone comes up and says something about it that you didn't think of – you can't deny it. Like "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," people came up and said, cunningly, "Right, I get it. L-S-D," and it was when [news]papers were talking about LSD, but we never thought about it.
In a 2004 interview with Uncut magazine, McCartney confirmed it was "pretty obvious" drugs did influence some of the group's compositions at that time, including "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", though he tempered this statement by adding, "It's easy to overestimate the influence of drugs on the Beatles' music." (derived from wikipedia)
Been a while since I've uploaded any images here... sorry! I recently got back from a trip to southern Utah. Here's one of the many images from my trip -- check my blog for more details, story, etc.
You can now find me on facebook as well, Art in Nature Photography.
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Incredible patterns and colors formed naturally by a thin layer of plant oils from decaying leaves floating in a small puddle in a deep canyon in Utah's Escalante National Monument. The fantastical colors you see, which change with the viewing angle, are a result of a phenomenon called iridescence. As light hits the oil it can either reflect off of the surface, or travel through the oil (refracting) and reflect off of the water surface. These multiple phase-shifted reflections then recombine, attenuating and amplifying select frequencies of light through wave interference. The degree of phase-shift (and thus the perceived color) is modulated by the thickness of the film.
Rain, Rain, Go away. What does one do when it is raining every day and a wannabe landscape shooter like myself becomes house bound.
For me it is a relapse into what I call "monsoon madness" and my dormant and quite quirky right brain awakens for a bit from its normal comatose condition. Here is a product of that momentary relapse I call "Psychedelic Dreams".
Trinity Clothing - Vicky's Psychedelic Bell-bottom Jeans + Hud
Ricielli - Ellen Top + Hud
[monso] My Hair - Inni (m3)
Lami - Color Tattoo [CAROL G]
Adoness: Maitreya Nails: Basics : Red to Orange
Meva Sally Bento Ring Gold left Forefinger
Serendipity Poses
[CC] Skyblossom Set from Cerridwen's Cauldron [available on MP]
Visit this location at Trinity Clothing and Park in Second Life
This photo was taken during a night workshop led by Tim Baskerville, one of the original Nocturnes. The light painting was a joint effort of the students and Tim.
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50¢ estate sale owl.
Fabric background is a thrifty find of MyraR_omano.
I bought the owl and a few days later the fabric arrived in the mail. :)
The owl is a money box, but is missing the stopper at the bottom. It's made in Japan.
Explore Highest position: 12 on Sunday, November 4, 2007
Old record cover & album from 1968 - Quicksilver Messenger Service 1st LP... seen at resale/junk store Port of Newport (Oregon) I think. > www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE_EU4bOU1g&t=6350s