Very cool. I wonder how many times the leaf has to pass to make such a stroke, and it's interesting how they can hit exactly the same groove.
Nice for the desktop.
Thursday, May 03, 2012
Sand Drawing
Apropos pattern photos, TCGirl took this nice photo of patterns that blades of grass have drawn in the moist sand.
Very cool. I wonder how many times the leaf has to pass to make such a stroke, and it's interesting how they can hit exactly the same groove.
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Nice for the desktop.
Very cool. I wonder how many times the leaf has to pass to make such a stroke, and it's interesting how they can hit exactly the same groove.
Nice for the desktop.
This is really nice TCGirl! I'm guessing you took this in California? The sand is too white to be from Oregon! ;-)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Russ! with the weather the way it's behaving, right now, I WISH it was CA! ;-) You probably won't believe it but...it's @ Walport, on the Bayshore peninsula where I shot these pics, last year! :-)
ReplyDeleteIt's a good place to get shots of beached sea lions, as well. And...I shot a [not so great shot] of a Blue Heron there, as well. :-)
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ReplyDeleteYes, those pics from last year where really top notch.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Eo! :-)
ReplyDeleteGreat picture. Always try to find the natural patterns in nature. Like clouds, they are always in motion. Change the angle of view and the picture will change.
ReplyDeleteHi, Joe...Thanks! :-) Yes...I love taking cloud pics, as well. Usually, I'm driving, when I find the best ones! :-/
DeleteSaved! Amazing resolution and quality. Nice job, TC.
ReplyDeleteThough I'm having a hard time spotting the beached sea lions in the image. They must be naturally camouflaged...
"Usually, I'm driving, when I find the best ones! :-/"
Ah, don't you go thinking you're jinxed. It's the same with all of us!
Those who DO drive, that is. :-D
Actually, Eo, the leaves don't ALWAYS hit the exact same groove. It's statistics at play. The most frequent line of motion will crease itself fastest, exponentially attracting the grass blade by its depth. Nature's full of fascinating, yet incredibly simple self-amplifying phenomena like this. Think of snowflakes: random growth, but symmetrical, always starting from a hexagonal nucleus of just 6 crystallized water molecules around a speck of dust. The rest is history... and art. :-)
ah, I'd never really thought about how snow flakes started.
ReplyDeleteSaved! Amazing resolution and quality. Nice job, TC.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Pascal! Sweet of you to say! :-)
Though I'm having a hard time spotting the beached sea lions in the image. They must be naturally camouflaged...
I'll have to dig around and find that series and post them, when I do. Looks like I pulled them off of the picture-sharing site; I run out of [free] room on a regular basis. :-/
"Usually, I'm driving, when I find the best ones! :-/"
Ah, don't you go thinking you're jinxed. It's the same with all of us!
Those who DO drive, that is. :-D
It's tough 'cuz "I'd rather (bumper sticker beginnings) have my head either scanning the skies or looking onto the beach" (or somewhere in between)...and, very rarely, do I either 1) have a camera w/me, when I see something that I want to take a pic of, or 2) have time to stop and take the shot! :-( Must make more time to include more time and opportunities for that! :-)
Et tu, Eo? You saw grass blades drawing grooves in the sand, and failed to IMMEDIATELY think of how snowflakes are made?
ReplyDeleteSon, I am disappoint.
I'm disappoint too. Don't make me angr.
ReplyDeleteAngr artst is OK. It's mad scientists I cn't stnd.
ReplyDeleteEspecially when they lash out at innocent sheep.
Uh-oh! 12 comments in thread and still no mention of Hitler? Godwin's law demands justice!
"Don't listen to the rumors, I f***ing LOVE juice." -- Adolf H., painter artist, healthy eater and animal rights activist
Pascal: did you really want to see those pics or were you just being silly 'cuz I won't bother if it's the latter. And...I'm good w/either. :-)
ReplyDeleteOh, you meant the sea lion photos?
ReplyDeleteNah, I was just sea-horsing around. Pulling your fin. Sending you on a wild herring chase. Squidding you. Spongebobbing your squarepants. Playing a Patrick Fool's prank. Being in a beaching mood.
Not that I'd mind seeing them. Especially if they're of similar quality.