Pictures Taken By you...

[North Star]

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.

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.

[Dreamwoven]

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

[North Star]

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

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

[North Star]

Studies in Snow I & II

[YesNo]

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

[Dreamwoven]

A good illustration of simplicity making the picture.

[North Star]

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

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

A good illustration of simplicity making the picture.

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)

[North Star]

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

[tailor STATELY]

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),
tailor STATELY

[YesNo]

The reflection is so precise and the water so still, it almost doesn't seem real.

[North Star]

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

[North Star]

[YesNo]

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

[Dreamwoven]

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

[North Star]

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