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 (19)
fractalbeke
Manlief...hoe krijgen ze't gemaakt ? Bijna niet te onderscheiden van beeldhouwwerk in hout. Fotografisch gezien ... weer de perfectie !
chesscanoe
The boy sucking on the pipe is amusing; your interpretation of the sand interpretation is great.
jmb007
superbe photo!!
ragouc
Cool shot. Great sculpture.
wannes
Schitterende zandsculptuur, erg knap in beeld gebracht, knappe foto!
Juliette.Gribnau
ik geniet intens van deze serie schitterende foto's an heel boeiende werken !
GBCalls
Very cool!
thecytron
Xcellent clarity and details!
Richardphotos
amazing work and your capture does justice
VDH
Mooie zandsculptuur, perfect in beeld gebracht!
claude19
SPLENDID sand sculpture ! You have a very good taste ! SPLENDID !!!
Flint_Hawk
Amazing! The detail & work involved in creating this is outstanding!
carlx
Amazing work and presentation, Ed!!!
Erestorfan
This is INCREDIBLE!! The detail is astounding, right down to the feathers on the macaw parrot in the back left!! It amazes me how people can make works of art like this out of sand...I can't even make a simple sand castle, LOL.
clbsmiley
This is wonderful!! Looks like they get more sand to work with than the one I went to does. Thanks for your comment dear. I like XaoS. :)
M2A
Really impressive sand work and result.
amota99517
What an amazing piece of art and so impressive. Your shot really brings out the beauty of the sculpted piece. Excellent capture!
dochtersions
Niet te geloven, wat een 'zandkunst'!
farmerC
Exellent werk van fotograaf en zandman.