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Originally Posted by Dreamwoven

No it was the bubbly-ness of hot chocolate, I was surprised at. But the other pics of your flickr links were also very interesting. I was amazed at how very simple things like rain on a window could look so strange, or the eye of a perch in a refraction.

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Okay. Well, I must have mixed the chocolate rather well with a spoon (and had a lot of chocolate powder in the water) - to make it bubbly, and the lighting and enlargement help to make the bubbles look so prominent. The diameter of the cup the chocolate is in is 8 cm (3.15").

Thank you. Well I do like Atget (and Man Ray), and try to adhere to Minor White's advice One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are. :)

In a way, that is the art of good photography, seeing things from a different perspective and capturing the moment with a picture.

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In a way, that is the art of good photography, seeing things from a different perspective and capturing the moment with a picture.

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That is certainly an important part of photography, although there is lots of good photography that doesn't fit the description.

Studies in Snow I & II

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https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5776/...48f4588e29.jpg

Are those footprints that were later filled in or just a drifting process? I liked the spiral in the top one.

A good illustration of simplicity making the picture.

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Are those footprints that were later filled in or just a drifting process? I liked the spiral in the top one.

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Some human activity has shaped the snowscapes, as far as I recall.

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A good illustration of simplicity making the picture.

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Thanks. Simplicity in that the of patterns and shapes have uniformity, certainly. Now, try to recreate the photographs more closely than you could a portrait, for instance. . . (the photos are from last winter)

Click the link on the image to see properly, as always.

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Beautiful photo. Mirrored events like these often remind me of Rorschach images. For instance w/my head tilted to left I can see a whiskered creature with its eyes closed.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
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The reflection is so precise and the water so still, it almost doesn't seem real.

Thank you both. Yes, those ripples on bottom right aside, the water is indeed extremely still.


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I find the background circles of color interesting in these last two.

But what are those colours? They appear in the first image as well, though even more fuzzy, perhaps because they are under water?

Just light sources (sun, slivers of sky through the trees) which are out of focus.