Interesting wabi sabi, Dave.
Hi Russ,
I have been concentrating on other things with my head down for far too long now and so totally missed out on the term "wabi sabi", but having just looked it up on the web as relates to photography and art, I now know what it means:
"Wabi-sabi refers to an elusive and elegant beauty. Wabi suggests a beauty of elegant imperfection. Sabi means loneliness or rather aloneness. Together, they suggest the beauty of ‘the withered, weathered, tarnished, scarred, intimate, coarse, earthly, evanescent, tentative, ephemeral.’ ~ Crispin Sartwell, Six Names of Beauty"Ya live and learn
Thanks Russ
An interesting thought: for my money, I'd say the lower the chain lies then the less the rust. I base this amazing conclusion on the thought that the deeper you go the less oxygen may be free as in bubbles... that's one reason to be a snapper: you don't really have to know the answer to problems like that!
Of course, that's a different kettle of fish to the other foulings your chain will collect - just like oysters and mussels seem prone to gathering too. Bon appétit!
;-)
Rob
My thoughts entirely Rob, so I wonder is it less oxygen and less rust the deeper you go, or is it more molluscs with more of their digestive acids eating through the chain the deeper you go?
I also should mention, that it had rained heavily when I went to shoot this chain, but as I started to soot it, the sun came out and started to dry it, so some of the deepest pits will still be damp, but the upper surfaces of the chain will be dried and with a fresh coat of oxidisation probably.
This big pile of chain has sat there for over two years I am told, yet I must haven driven past a hundred times and never spotted it before, so much for me being observant and trying to see things photographically all the time.
Dave