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For Macro Mondays
This week's theme: Triangle
Taracea (inlaid marquetry) is an artform brought from northern Africa to Granada by the Moors in 14th century. Long after the Catholic conquest of Granada it continued to be used to decorate religious artefacts, furniture and other items. It remains unique to Andalusia in Spain and there are just a handful of places still making and selling taracea (from the Arabic word 'tarci', to encrust) . These little drink coasters are quite simple with their geometric designs made of contrasting timbers. More elaborate taracea can be made of wood, bone, mother of pearl and in earlier times including ivory and tortoiseshell. I bought mine during a visit to Alhambra Palace. The image is less than 7cm (see image in comments).
How many triangles can you find? I can find 14: 10 real and 4 implied ones. Happy counting!
BTW: You can find an alternative crop of this photo over in the Recent Work gallery on my website.
Enjoy!
Part of my enjoyment in my photo enthusiasm is in the post processing phase. I enjoy editing to get the image to look the way I feel it presents itself best. But at other times, and quite often I leave well enough alone and go SOOC.
Here I especially like how all the individual elements near and far create new interrelationships with one another when flattened upon the picture frame. Yes, all those poles, but here the water tower and traffic cone are a half mile away from each other, but in the shot they are buddies. Add in that tree and let's have a party. -- throw in a red reflector as the fulcrum and let's swing.
did someone say triangles?
The Álvaro Siza Wing of beautiful Serralves, Porto, Portugal.
We saw an exhibition there on the famous Finnisch architect Alvar Aalto, which worked perfectly in this exhibition space..
Design (1991): Álvaro Siza.
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I have wanted to get this shot for a long time. I like all of the lines in the image and he the cloud parallels the shape in the foreground.