Here's mud in your eye #2 - with variations by goodoleboy
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Captured 5/31/14, early in the AM, about a half a mile away, on part of what was once a section of lawn in front of a church.
More Rocky Road ice cream stuff. I predict some viewers will see faces in all this.
I see anguish.
Since I took the original mud pic on 5/20/14, the goop has pretty well dried up. The leak that caused this morass was probably caused by a nearby heavy pile driver - which are more than loud and earth shaking - incessantly pounding away near the freeway widening project, which in turn impacted a water main. The laborers are continuing work around this mud, installing some kind of equipment into the ground that is beyond my acumen to identify, pictures of which I will post later.
A ZOOM would be ideal in this instance.
Toodles.
Comments (4)
claude19
I love the third variation...splendid work with filters and textures !!!
durleybeachbum
I like that face!
MrsRatbag
Nicely done, Harry; that radial blur is kinda cool! Only you could make mud look interesting...I'm glad the leak is repaired, you don't want sinkholes. Great work!
anahata.c
Well I didn't see a face yet, but that's because I'm drawn in by the aerial-view of the shots. The amount of detail, and the variations in texture, make this a viable from-the-air shot of a large swath of land. The extreme variation---the one with the "explosion" effect---is a good 'peak' for the series, and it shakes it up before you return home again. (It looks a little like a cut tree trunk.) The center of that shot looks like a ground-zero target. But the others are about the land forms and dried up riverbed, and the many geological formations of a huge swath of land. I can't get that out of my head. Fine light and contrast in the original, it really does look like an aerial shot of a dried up riverbed and environs. That then becomes an old faded geographical shot, in number 2: A National Geographic shot from the 20s---it's faded, with a nostalgic, almost sad air to it. It brings out more of the topography too. And the final one intensifies it with a deep silver-blue tone and deeper contrasts. Hard to believe that, just some feet away, there's a construction site going on! Because your closeups reveal a huge landscape, to my eye; and, rather than being mud, this looks like a collections of slate, shale, maybe obsidian land forms... More fine close study of nature's forms, showing a whole world in them and not just a 'snippet'. And I do know the noise of those big pile drivers: As an 'avant garde' musical composer, years back, we went out and recorded some of these machines, and they were so deafening and downright frightening, we decided to "screw the damned composition" and go out for a beer. And you should hear those rat-a-tats slow motion: They sound like huge monsters stomping on the ground, kaaaa-BOOOOOOM! kaaaa-BOOOOOOM! verrrry slow...fascinating stuff...Harry, I see I SKIPPED an image---yikes!---so I'm gonna go backwards now, and pick it up. It was screaming from the side of my monitor, "hey BUD! You FORGOT me!!!" Sorry!