Forum: Photography

Subject: Just what the hell is this picture anyway?

PhrankPower opened this issue on Jan 07, 2002 · 16 posts

PhrankPower posted Mon, 07 January 2002 at 11:53 PM

Just curious to see if anyone can guess what this image is. The ONLY alteration here is with the color, the image itself remains unchanged. This is a totally natural subject; Mother Nature's artwork. To me it looked like some Asian art of a mountain range, and I added the color to enhance that feeling, but a desaturation will remove all my fingerprints. Any ideas?

PunkClown posted Tue, 08 January 2002 at 1:15 AM

I resisted the urge to take it into Photoshop and desaturate it...just! I'm not sure, (love the image BTW) but is it the edge of the surf coming in on the beach? Probably way off mark, but I had to give it a shot!

Maygen posted Tue, 08 January 2002 at 1:41 AM

A close up of a 15 year olds facial skin? Hrmm I'm kind of itching to go and desaturate it too but thats cheating lol. I'm going to have to go with the whole mountain thing but I have a feeling I'm wrong.

bsteph2069 posted Tue, 08 January 2002 at 4:40 AM

It's water scaling on a pot and pan! Bsteph

Rork1973 posted Tue, 08 January 2002 at 6:22 AM

The texture on the white area looks a bit like marble

Antoonio posted Tue, 08 January 2002 at 7:57 AM

...ice on the window? .n

Finder posted Tue, 08 January 2002 at 9:29 AM

Nope. It's polished marble. ...right?

Rork1973 posted Tue, 08 January 2002 at 9:45 AM

I know a restaurant where they sell this as beef ;)

dreamsosweet posted Tue, 08 January 2002 at 4:05 PM

The wrinkled skin on a knuckle..... cool image, whatever the heck it is! :-)

Maygen posted Tue, 08 January 2002 at 4:06 PM

soooooo what the hell is this picture anyway? :)

PhrankPower posted Tue, 08 January 2002 at 6:20 PM

A warm summer day. In the gulf waters, there was some very fine seaweed in the water. As the tide slowly receded, each wave didnt make it quite as far as the previous wave, and the seaweed left a line at furthest point of each wave. The area of the picture is about 4 feet wide. Congratulations PunkClown! PS: Alpha - No, Im not attempting to take over the contest area! But this could be a fun thing for us to do by taking turns!

PunkClown posted Tue, 08 January 2002 at 6:27 PM

So do I win a prize? :-)> I guess because I have spent so many wonderful times of my life at the beach, admiring the amazing patterns that combination of water, sand and indeed seaweed can make just like in Marshall's image, that triggered some subconscious association...(and the fact that I'm bloody brilliant!) LOL folks! thanks Marshall!

Maygen posted Tue, 08 January 2002 at 6:32 PM

ahhhh cool lol

PhrankPower posted Tue, 08 January 2002 at 10:59 PM

A hotdog? Mmmmm... A flashback, perhaps?

bsteph2069 posted Wed, 09 January 2002 at 2:05 PM

Did you see that anti drug film too? You know, the drug pops a few pills then goes to a carnival. While at the carnival he buys a hotdog. The hotdog has hair and says " Don't eat me! I have a wife and nine children! " Bsteph

Lisas_Botanicals posted Thu, 10 January 2002 at 7:35 AM

Cool! I thought it was the edge of a piece of slate or magnified mica. very cool art, Mother Nature! :)