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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).
Canon EOS 6D - f/5 - 1/80 sec - 100 mm - ISO 6400
- challenge Flickr group: Macro Mondays, theme: Triangle
- I did photograph a part of the lid of a crystal bonbonniere placed in front of the tetris light (see first comment) which caused the different colours on the different facets.
- An octagram is in geometry an eight-sided star polygon.
- Meaning of an eight-pointed star
The eight-pointed star, or octagram, has a variety of different meanings based on the interpretation of the culture or spiritual system that is using the symbol.
* From the Judeo-Christian perspective, the eight-pointed star represents new beginnings.
* However, the Babylonians believed an octagram represented the goddess Ishtar, who was associated with the planet Venus.
* The Hindu goddess of wealth, Lakshimi, is represented by eight emanations, which are depicted as two intertwined squares that form an octagram. Each emanation, or point, of the octagram represents one of the following aspects of wealth: victory, patience, health, knowledge, nourishment, prosperity, mobility and monetary wealth.
* For the Egyptians, the eight-pointed star represented the eight deities known as the Ogdoad. The Egyptians believed that the Ogdoad, four female gods and four male gods, each represented a primal force or element such as water, air, darkness or infinity. Together, they created the world and the sun god Ra.
* Two overlapping squares, or an octagram, also represents duality. Each point of the square represents the four cardinal directions and the four elements: air, water, earth and fire. The top square of the octagram represents the positive aspects of the elements, and the bottom square represents the negative.
This is the last shot in my ongoing Triangles and Architecture series. Tomorrow, I'll start a new series of animal portaits.
There's more on www.chm-photography.com.
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?
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!
The #MacroMondays theme for tomorrow is #wallet- something that carries bills, coins or cards. Had a few possibilities that were of the yellow transparent zippered bill holders that I use in my crossbody bag but I’m going with my DD’s card and money “wallet” Cropped it down to be absolutely sure it stayed within the parameters. It did it’s about 1 and 3/4ths - see the first comment box
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Got an email from Panos with updates to a few of the Actions I have gotten from him.. This one he has fixed so you can put something different on each of the faces of the cube.. I like it... He is doing alright but said they were restricted pretty much as we are with this virus...
For the Sliders Sunday group. Base image created using a Canon PowerShot camera and processed using Photoshop, Quad Pencil and Fractalius. Happy Sliders Sunday!
The combination of early morning light, mist, hills and trees create interesting fan-shaped triangles and a moody atmosphere.
These are some triangles from the Magic puzzle.
This is about 2,5 inch wide.
Happy Macro Monday.
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