Cycad fronds - with variations by goodoleboy
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The infinite joy of digifiddling.
Captured 8/20/13, in the early morning looking into the sun, somewhere within the vast perimeter of the neighborhood.
Original on top, and ZOOM for better detail, especially on the bottom variation.
See ya, and have a nice day.
Comments (9)
durleybeachbum
All fabulous, Harry! Well done!
johndoop
they are all wonderful beautiful vistas!!!!
magnus073
You did a very nice job on this colorful collage, Harry.
MrsRatbag
Amazing patterns seen through the fronds! What a feast for the eyes! You've captured them so well, and given us more ways to see them besides; amazing composition, well seen and captured, and beautifully presented here. I especially like that last variation, it's so striking!
angora
amazing contribution!! like!
racolt33
Very cool collage!
tennesseecowgirl
I love all the different effects... nice job!
debbielove
The second one you've created is actually very effective Harry.. A very good job on this show! Rob
anahata.c
Well I'm happily back in your gallery again, though I've watched every upload. (I might divide this session into two days, as I'm up for a bit in the night and may finish later on.) But I'm back in your gallery and rarin' to go, so here goes. This is digifiddled, but very conscious of the photo itself. You're exploring the inner workings of the shot, and peering into its core. The first shot is another of your first-rate shots of fronds, with more of your by-now signature back-lighting. You're really intimate with that. The front row is penetrated-through with a wonderful thick 'fan' of fronds behind it, making terrific counterpoint. And we can see the street and a house in the background, which adds fine space to the background. Then you have the thinner stems---the stringy ones---running between the front row and back row, for fine contrast: They're like a little ballet troupe running between the two muscular dancers. In the next two, at first one thinks of inversion---but you've done things with it, finessed it, in ways that that go beyond inversion---ie, separation, exploration of forms, etc. Number two has this ominous 'presence' in the front, balanced by the now spotlight-like rays of the back row; and your use of reds is just terrific. I'll never know how you got all this contrast, and finessed the front fronds into such a silhoutte. Then the third is rendered in mostly greens, where we experience the patterns foremost, as well as the 'green-ness' of it all: a real study of form and dominant hue. (And the spindly stems really stand out in this one.) Then, in the last, you've turned it into an analytic study, like something from a medical lab---with the fronds broken into veins and roadways, and everything coming to the surface like a mathematical study of pattern and proportion. Your sequence leads us to this, where we are looking 'inside' the fronds and their energies. Some digifiddling is fun, some has striking effects, etc, and you've done them all. But this one, like a number of your others, is about penetrating inner qualities---something we might say you've "earned the right to do" with these plants, because of your work repeated photographs of them. A terrific quartet; I agree with andrea's 'fabulous', with all the other comments, and (as always) with denise's 'feast for the eyes'. Though your body may complain to you, your eyes never tire. Terrific job.