Small worlds

[habakuk]

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SPOILER::: my interpretation:

So many small worlds - and each one is convinced to be the only one... somehow this is a metaphor for so many facettes of our life. Broken into chunks, seemling not connected, yet so close and similar... and each part is just making sense in the context of the whole grid of existence and being.

Which square grows, which drys out, which brings up tiny flowers, which collects the garbage thrown into the grid... we don't know until we experience it. Sometimes, there are stones, sometimes void, there is space and restriction, there is structure and boredom... all in a grid, the grid of life.

[Uroplatus]

This photo along with your Spoiler... is pretty cool!!! 

I know that you have gone through a good bit recently, as well as I... mine with my mom.  I listen to her stories of life and see where they fall in this grid... I was on the phone with her when I viewed this photo. She is fighting Lung and Breast Cancer right now, and she is telling us all about her life... both good and bad...  so this grid makes a lot of since...


From a technical aspect... its spot on for me... I don't see any uneven lines, no distracting markers, its all pretty nice...


Its a photo that after reading your text, you scan and reflect back on your own life... makes me feel good that with all thats going on in my life, the little set backs are nothing more than a rock in my grid, but that only helps hold in the moisture for a pretty flower to poke through the dirt soon!!!   

Can't really find anything i don't like... BUT... with out the text, I would find this photo nice, but boring. I would have to try to come up with a meaning on my own, and after i would sit for a few minutes trying to figure that out, i would loose intrest...

[ilchkai]

poetry captured.

but i also can not help myself but agree with Silas in terms of his last paragraph.

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[eob]

Some pictures have an obvious and universal meaning. Some others have multiple meanings (whoever views them, finds their own meaning - not necessarilly same one as intended by the creator). There are also pictures that are so personal, that only the creator knows their exact meaning, which depends on his/her state of mind or mood. I think, this is one of the latter kind...

By the same token, I suppose, there might also be pictures, that nobody, including the creator, knows their meaning?

[habakuk]

Thank you, guys! Yeah, some photos need a little help from the photographer... in a given context, this shot really invites to talk about philosophy. Without that context, it might not be that striking. I loved it for the metaphor I saw in it (see spoiler text).

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[petercooke]

I really love photos like these. They have so much hidden details. Things you miss but notice next time you look at it. I like the fact that you can't be sure of the scale, everything could be huge or really small. It's great.

[habakuk]

You're right. If someone just throws a quick glance at shots of this kind, then much of the potential cannot really come up. It's one of those shots that make a BIG difference if the viewer looks what the subject matter is, or if he looks what it is about...

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[Simon]

This is a very interesting photo, that big world in some of what we consider tiny spaces, just in that little grid there are 80 different realities, it also makes me think of "we are not alone in the universe" and this picture is good atasaying that as well so many so similar worlds that although so close don't know about one another, i suppose it could also related to the "smaller" space of just our own planet how there are so many different realities and many are ingored by one another, yes your spoiler text is just as thought provoking as the image itself

[brandonheyer]

This photo is simply enthralling.  At first glance I thought of two things, Cellular autonoma, and some sort of petri dish experiment.  I can see how your spoiler works with this, yet I feel more pulled to simply staring at the photo.  As petercooke said there is so much detail in each little square and with your spoiler it adds to the whole detail of the photo.

I prefer the more scientific view on it though, separate cells (worlds, universes) growing at their own rate under a constant system, and eventually some (with the large weeds/grass) begin to encroach on the others.  Or perhaps even a viral system where the green is the spread of the virus.  Who knows?

Great shot all around and no real negative criticism.

[habakuk]

Yeah, the petri dish analogy was something I saw too, when processing the shot. It's a difficult line to walk with adding text to such a shot. Refraining from doing so leaves more room for the viewers own imagination, otoh adding text can give a helpfull hint for some other viewers. And I confess, I often don't trust my own shots to be able to speak for their own... 

thanks for the feedback.

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