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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: churly on February 13, 2013, 05:34:44 pm

Title: Fronds and Tendrils
Post by: churly on February 13, 2013, 05:34:44 pm
A few microscapes.  Are they too 1-D?

(http://churly.zenfolio.com/img/s2/v60/p1427224990-5.jpg)


(http://churly.zenfolio.com/img/s11/v32/p1427225036-4.jpg)


(http://churly.zenfolio.com/img/s2/v58/p1427225094-4.jpg)
Title: Re: 2D is fine
Post by: NancyP on February 13, 2013, 06:15:23 pm
Not too 1D, which would be 1 pixel wide by 15 x 10e6 long  ;D
Yes, this is definitely 2D, we are in Flatland, not Lineland (tip of hat to Edward Abbott).
I like it. I like patterns. Heck, I spend most of my time looking at 2D microscope slides.
Title: Re: Fronds and Tendrils
Post by: sdwilsonsct on February 14, 2013, 01:34:09 am
I like it too, the subtle colours, the vertigo induced by confusion with LANDSAT shots.
Title: Re: Fronds and Tendrils
Post by: francois on February 14, 2013, 07:46:32 am
Superb images… My imagination could easily be fooled and thinks that it's sat images from arid regions or planet.
Title: Re: Fronds and Tendrils
Post by: churly on February 14, 2013, 07:58:56 am
Scott and Francois - Yes -  shots like this do make one a believer in the fractal geometry of natural phenomena.

Nancy - I was indeed being a bit sloppy with my language, but I thought that 'too two-D' didn't really communicate my question about flatness.  After all photographers go to great pains to convince everyone that we indeed don't live in flatland.  Anyway, if the language that I commonly hear in the media is to be taken into account, I should have said 'too too two-D'. 
I hope you have a binocular microscope!

Chuck
Title: Re: Fronds and Tendrils
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 14, 2013, 06:42:48 pm
Good stuff. Show us some more!
Title: Re: 2D is fine
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on February 15, 2013, 03:50:24 am
Yes, this is definitely 2D, we are in Flatland, not Lineland (tip of hat to Edward Abbott).

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Nancy, I haven't seen Flatland mentioned since I used to read Martin Gardner more than 30 years ago! Thanks for reminding me.

Jeremy