Karesansui Late Rock Garden by TwoPynts

Photography • Atmosphere/Mood • posted on Apr 23, 2008

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"The silent ripples On gravel shores are breaking, Frozen in motion." ~Karesansui Haiku

Postwork included copying the areas I wanted to remain in color to separate layers, then converting the background to grayscale and then resizing and adding signature and border. Taken at the widest zoom on my lens, you can see the distortion of the back wall. From Wikipedia: "A Japanese rock garden, sometimes mistakenly called a Zen garden, is an enclosed shallow sandpit containing sand, gravel, rocks, and occasionally grass and/or other natural elements. The main elements of karesansui are rocks and sand, with the sea symbolized not by water but by sand raked in patterns that suggest rippling water. Plants are much less important (and sometimes nonexistent) in many karesansui gardens. Karesansui gardens are often, but not always, meant to be viewed from a single, seated position. Some Westerners believe that karesansui gardens can be used to calm human minds, but they were not intended for such in their native Japanese settings." This garden at the Morikami is very similar to the famous Japanese rock garden is at Ryoan-ji in northwest Kyoto, Japan. -----

Thanks for your rippley comments on my previous upload, Earth Day Reflections ----- Olympus C8080wz & PhotoshopCS. (1125) Morikami Japanese Gardens, Boca Raton, FL, USA 2008 Sponsored by: Kramer Kreations

Comments (43)

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furuta

9:17AM | Thu, 24 April 2008

Beautiful japanese style garden, excellent!!

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nikolais

12:47PM | Thu, 24 April 2008

sharp textures and wonderful selective coloring add a lot to the whole impression

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Burpee

4:32PM | Thu, 24 April 2008

So Zen! Did you put the penny there? It amazes me the patience it must take to create such clean and unbroken lines.

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auntietk

1:44AM | Sat, 26 April 2008

Beautiful image! I think I'll just sit here for a little while. Thanks!

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tinknpopeye

8:48PM | Tue, 29 April 2008

I love this one!! dont think i could love it anymore then i already do.

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unstrung65

11:00PM | Wed, 14 May 2008

...beautifully captured & presented.

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Elcet

9:28AM | Mon, 19 May 2008

Absolutely wonderful. I do not understand, because you are one of the most prominent experts in photography at RR, why you complaint of the lens barrel distortion at shortest focal, why you did not correct that into Photoshop, which is easy even with very old versions such as the 6.0 (and much easier in today's one CS2 or CS3). But I recognize that if you had not spoken about that point, I would not have noticed it. For sure, it is difficult to correct a distortion that is not exactly a barrel, as is the case here, but one can reduce it significantly, and achieve the result with either the Filter Liquify or better with Edit > Distort (sorry I have the French version so I do not know the exact name in the US one) in CS2 and CS3. I have this problem with my Nikkor 3.5-4.5/18-70 Pro ED at shortest focal length. A masterwork anyway!

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