Ed Algra, born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1930, now living near Rotterdam. My education was a technical one, I came by accident to artistry, although I always had much interest in art, photography and music.Â
I’m a retired chemical engineer, worked at a research institute on mechanical properties of plastics and composite materials. I heard of fractals for the first time in the late eighties, and then read the well known books of Prof. Hans Lauwerier and other authors on this subject. At that time I also attended a Fractal symposium at the Technical University Delft, where Benoît Mandelbrot and some other prominent authors revealed the secrets of this new mathematical world. The pictures they showed made an overwhelming impression. Years after that, after my retirement and the connection to the web in 2005, I discovered what had happened in the meantime, the birth of a new kind of art, based on fractal concepts. Then it became a creative hobby for me. Both the mathematical and the artistic side of it have my interest.  Especially Ultra Fractal offers the possibility to write your own fractal math codes, and I love it to do so. I started Renderosity uploading on instigation of Arend Nijdam, aka “Fractelaar†in September 2005.
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Comments (11)
garybina
This is a really neat picture, would make a good painting
Fractelaar
Heb al jaren niet meer gevist maar als ik dit zie zou ik haast weer spontaan een hengel kopen en die Reiger wat concurrentie geven :-) Fijn plekje en hele mooie foto
ysvry
ja echt hollands, well done.
MrsLubner
Such a relaxing shot! Lovely feeling and clean photo.
Dindin
Dit mooie stukje Hollandse natuur doet mij echt goed ,moet er maar niet te lang naar kijken anders krijg ik heimwee .
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Mooi foto van deze prachtige natuur!De laatste jaren zijn hier ook veel reigers te zien, vroeger was dat zeldzaam. Zo te zien is de natuur toch nog niet helemaal naar de vaantjes!Dank voor de souvenier Ed!
leonie
Great shot Ed!
XoxoTree
This is one of my most favorite birs. Excellent image of beauty. :)
farmerC
De juiste man op de juiste plaats. Een hele mooie foto Het gras is groen maar ook vlijmscherp. Hopen dat hij nog een visje laat zitten.
DIANE603
Excellent capture!!
avalonfaayre
Beautiful shot, but they are a BAD BIRD! lol. Because of these guys, our pond is full of lilly pads! They carry the prolific little things on their legs, and spread the "joy". This is still beautiful, though. Perhaps you should have used something else to "shoot" this bird with! They are endangered, here. My Dad used to say, "If they land on my pond, I KNOW they are endangered!" Have a wonderful day!