Hi, I'm Andrea, and I'm interested in creatures and plants both wild and tamed, and people of all sorts. I only use a compact digital camera ,as I love being able to get it into a back pocket, and not have to cart heavy kit about. I carry a Panasonic Lumix TZ series, binoculars and a hand lens almost everywhere.Most of my outings are with the dogs so I only use point and shoot.
I am getting the hang of Photoshop, thanks to some very kind folk on RR!
I have a wildlife garden in Bournemouth, Dorset, in the UK, and spend a lot of time there . I retired from teaching art to teenagers a while ago.
I'm now getting some good results with my digi compacts; it took me a while to make the switch from my old film camera, an 1960 ish Pentax Spotmatic, but the mistakes are much cheaper!
I have 4 lodgers, 3 dogs and a parrot who, as at 2017, I have had 40 years.
I has so far had 19 dogs, mostly rescues.
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Comments (24)
blinkings
What people get out of vandalising plants I will never know...............
pat40
what a shame, but its a nice pic.
giulband
good shot
jayfar
Looks like a deer skin.
ronmolina
Most interesting shot! Does not even look like Aloe.
jendellas
Very interesting!!
GARAGELAND
Super find!
kaward
Well spotted! A truly fascinating abstract, I would never had worked out what it was until I saw that tiny spike on the edge.
auntietk
Fascinating patterns! (I see faces in the white bits.) Too bad about the vandalism. What on earth are people thinking?
kgb224
Superb capture Andrea. God bless.
X-PaX
Interesting closeup. Well done Andrea.
Rob2753
That is so beautiful !!! a wonderful natural abstract excellent !
aksirp
hehe, this way it looks pretty interesting. some of mine Aloé have a similar look. Cool detail picture Andrea!
Faemike55
The patterns are cool however, what would be cooler is if they could catch the vandals and make them work to help restore that which they have ruined
Adobe_One_Kenobi
Superb!
goodoleboy
When it comes to bizarre patterns and textures in general, this is fascinating, but when it comes to an aloe leaf, it's an abomination. Fie on the vandals! This stellar capture easily rivals my knot shots.
MrsRatbag
You do have a great eye for patterns, Andrea; this is lovely!
ia-du-lin
cool shot, nice structure
helanker
WOW! thats beautiful. When I saw this I thought about cow skin :)
moochagoo
Really excellent abstract !
danapommet
Lovely patterns in both photos. I am afraid that mindless vandalism is not unique to your part of todays world!
Celart
Great capture
Katraz
It makes a great abstract Its a shame they didn't do it to an Agave or something nice and spiky.
Mark-David-Rogers
Another excellent photographic abstract, in this case you have pulled out a little so it is possible to actually see what it is, it's interesting how the eye's and brain work, I bet if you zoomed in beyond the edges it would be almost impossible to know what it could be beyond an abstract piece.