Beautiful Disaster by beesknees

Fractal • Fractal • posted on Jul 15, 2010

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UF5. ***Full View for More Detail*** On the UF list a link was posted to photos of the Gulf spill http://www.pdnphotooftheday.com/2010/07/5339.They are close-ups of the oil on the water and they are quite beautiful, almost fractalish. A challenge was issued for spill related images and while I did not intend this particular piece to be part of that challenge (I was going to do a more literal image depicting the ugliness of the disaster) the more I worked with the gradient the more it looked to me like tendrils of oil seeping outward. This is in no way meant to diminish how horrible the situation is, it's just my interpretation based on the intriguing photos at the above link. Kim

Comments (19)

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Rerewhakaaitu

2:23AM | Thu, 15 July 2010

Beauty can at times be found in ugliness. If it could not, we would be unable to survive. Rainbows in a drop of oil; spiralling storm clouds. This is a beautiful image of something ugly.

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Hubert

3:25AM | Thu, 15 July 2010

Beautiful image and fascinating color scheme!

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VEDES

3:26AM | Thu, 15 July 2010

lovely colors and fantastic idea

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carlx

4:52AM | Thu, 15 July 2010

BEAUTY!!!

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FractalFactor

7:18AM | Thu, 15 July 2010

There's usually some beauty that can be found in anything, and the oil spill is no exception. The way the colors flow IS lovely.

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peedy

8:50AM | Thu, 15 July 2010

Stunning! Corrie

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lkmitch

9:15AM | Thu, 15 July 2010

Very effective use of texture, color, and the outlining effect!

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kepp

1:00PM | Thu, 15 July 2010

stunning image

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jmb007

2:03PM | Thu, 15 July 2010

superbe image!!

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vxbob

6:16PM | Thu, 15 July 2010

Beautiful, even though I don't care for all the brown at the bottom; although that might change if I could see the whole picture without scrolling

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afugatt

10:10PM | Thu, 15 July 2010

OMG! This is gorgeous! Disaster or not I love it!

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amota99517

10:49PM | Thu, 15 July 2010

Your work is beautiful and is a reminder that there is beauty beneath all of that mess.

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zmarek

11:40PM | Thu, 15 July 2010

Beautiful fractal work, super and very nice.

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gumbykat

3:31PM | Sat, 17 July 2010

Aaaaahhh! Ooooh! Gorgeous as usual! This one has so much fine detail - this is a great series! Linda

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dochtersions

6:04AM | Sun, 18 July 2010

Amazing what you make from this, Kim. I saw, Juliette was inspired by this one. Its GREAT! what is coming out from that disaster by your artwork.

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FractalForum

8:26PM | Wed, 21 July 2010

Congratulations! This image has been chosen for the Fractal Window Weekly in the Fractal SubCommunity. You will find the announcement in the Fractal Forum.

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