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This Month’s Theme: Texture
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
– Peter Lindbergh
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Texture
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Love the purple tunnel!
I’m with ID — the purple shot is great. But I’m pretty fond of the critter shot as well.
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Those water ripple shots you do are just great! They remind me of all the time I spent messing around in the creeks as a kid and the gold tones are lovely.
Thanks. I love the light-ripples on the creeks and it was especially nice to see it this year because they’ve spent most of the winter frozen.
Agree with ID. Love the ripples and the colours.
Your geology is so pretty. 😀
MMm…silky. The snow looks like a sheet of silk.
Is that first shot a rocket engine nozzle?
And how did you train jelly fish to make a tunnel?
Was the little guy as rough and sharp as he looked, or did you try to find out?
It is…Rocketdyne F1.
If you figure it out let me know ’cause that would be an awesome shot.
I handled a gator a long time ago at a gator farm and they’re very leathery-hard feeling unlike anything I’ve felt.
You, lookin’ at me?
Don’t you hate it when there’s a line at the fly through window?
Snow-glyph
That’s an interesting contraption ya’ got there. Beautiful red heads.
The aluminum pie pan hung on the bottom of the suet feeder with coat hangers is to keep the crows from destroying the suet. They would hop up from below, flip themselves upside down and grab the suet feeder with their feet. Then they would tear apart the suet block in about 15 minutes. They’re too big and heavy to fly in from the side or the top. The little birds like to land on the pan and clean up the woodpeckers leavings.
That’s a great solution to the problem.
Great shots Jim – especially the second one with the in-flight incoming, ha. Those red heads must stand out in the snow. And love the anti-wp rigging!
What made the snow-glyph?
What made the snow glyph?
That’s a good question. There were no prints leading to or away from the traces or even within the traces. There were no entry or exit holes into the traces. It was about 1 m by 1.5 m (3 by 5 feet). The traces were 5-10 cm (3-5 inches) in width and not quite that depth.
Since there were no signs of an animal making the traces from above, I assume some critter made it from below. But I have no idea as to what it was.
Winter crop circles due to coked out ET pilot (see movie, Heavy Metal).
Really nice woodpecker shots. We get mostly the little downeys in town and sometimes a pileated or two very early in the morning.
Sea foam
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Petals
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Forest
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Feather
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Wow! What an amazing set. You really got this theme done beautifully. The feather photos is fantastic.
I’ve seen the sea foam flying across the continent.
I’ve seen the petals in mushrooms, shingles, and pineapples.
I’ve seen the forest from the moss on the floor to the towering redwoods.
Fractals are amazing.
The feather in the sand is incomparable.
Wow! What an amazing set. You really got this theme done beautifully. The feather photos is fantastic.
Very difficult to pick a favorite in this set, but the forest scene does intrigue me. Nicely done, olivia!
Great set Bob. Love the tunnel – wow, the colour! – and the framing of the engine in the first one.
Interesting link – lots of great reading/photos there!
Finally done with a candidate training I agreed to lead, so I can come out to play now.
I love that dam picture, but the leaf edges and the shot from under milkweed are spectacular.
Excellent set. I always love the photo of the dam but I think the leaf and the cloudy sky outdo it — especially for this theme. Love the mix of textures in the mushroom and milkweed shot.
Sadly, the old mushroom tree has fallen to the lesser gods of urban improvement.