Redwood Grotesquerie by photosynthesis

Photography • Abstract • posted on Mar 04, 2018

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From Wikipedia: "Since at least the 18th century (in French and German as well as English), grotesque (or grottoesque) has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks." I find many of the shapes in redwood tree bark & burls to be grotesque, but in the sense of magnificent & fantastic, rather than ugly & disgusting... Please zoom.

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T.Rex

12:52PM | Sun, 04 March 2018

Hmmm... looks like a hobbit burrow. But grotesque, no. Keep up the good work. We get to see a lot of things we otherwise wouldn't if it weren't for the Internet. :-)

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