Aftermath N°2

[habakuk]

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[eob]

Reminds me of so-called crop-sculpting in Iowa or Nebraska. Aliens landed here last night and did their deed to make us scratch our heads...

Unlike some other patterns of yours, I like this image better for its 3-D curvature and more organic look. In this case, I got no doubt that this is a photograph and not an image created on the computer in Illustrator or in some other similar software. However, I would probably crop this image into a square, getting rid of the right portion of it.

[habakuk]

Thanks, eob. To me this looks like a sea-hedgehog or a diatomea surface seen through a microscope...
In fact it's the traces of so called "Panzer cakes" - a shield that is layed out on the ground to "protect" the soil e.g. on big outdoor events. Here it was a open air.
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[Ted Byrne]

It was 1966 when I sat in an Avianca jet way high over the jungle of South America. In hours we'd arrive at a Latin City, it was hours since we'd left New York and about high noon outside my window. I'd been reading a novel when absent-mindedly I peered out of the window and down through the cloudless sky to see...

Well something quite like what you've shown us here. No... not as vast, yet 33,000 feet below there were shapes in the jungle clearings that must have been maybe miles long. Shapes which I expect could not have been understood at all from the ground.

Perplexed I called the stewardess who peered out, shook her head and said, "Yes, I've often wondered about them as well. Curious, eh?"

I've never flown over them in daylight since, nor do I have pictures... except for those inside my head... and the one you've posted up there. 

[Theo]

I would probably crop this image into a square, getting rid of the right portion of it.

i agree with eob about the crop as it would work off the circles. I like the repetition, but the unique organic of the stones adds interest along with the perspective. I would love to see the contrast pumped up a lot to bring out the spots of light.(you will find out that i'm a contrast junkie) and a lower perspective. (again i am often seen laying on the ground a think my wife  just hates lol)

The texture is just awesome though.

good job

yours

[habakuk]

Thanks for your thoughts!

Well, Ted, see how dimensions start to merge when reaching the extremes... you talk about looking thousands of feets from above, I talk about looking through a microscope - yet we reach the same world of imagination, of features that are there if only we open up for them to be seen...

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[habakuk]

And here's N°1 of that series:



Quite different, yet clearly related, no?
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[Theo]

I like this one a lot better!  The perspective of the stones and the green shadows seems to intertwine with each other. You can almost see large trees to the right of the image on a cool morning with children waiting for the bell to ring to go and play.


Nice job

Yours

[eob]

And I like the previous version better - even without modifications. While the first one is definitely an abstract, the second one doesn't seem to be "abstract enough", nor "realistic enough". It lies somewhere in-between. I also prefer the monochromatic palette of the first one.

[habakuk]

Thanks for the comments. Well, me personally like the first one better for it's more out of this world kind of feeling. The second one is imo interesting because of the light and color, but the first one has more elements of surprise and ambiguity.

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[Athena]

I had to smile Roland when I opened this thread and remembered our conversation elsewhere about the organic impression No1 left with me.