Chronologically I have been going backwards with the Harvard Pond images. I don’t know if this is the best of the bunch, but it is my favorite so I saved it for last.
01.30.2019 What got my attention to start
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Stephen Gingold Nature Photography Blog 
I initially saw this as if taken from up in the air looking down at a road diagonally crossing a winter landscape. The road might have been plowed, forming a long snowbank. I can see why this picture became your favorite from the session.
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I hadn’t thought of it topographically, but I see it now that you mention it. Abstracts are fun because so many people see them differently.
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Nature can make amazing patterns. Stay warm up there.
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We’ll be doing our best. I may hazard out for a short while.
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There’s a lot of movement in this picture. It’s a little hypnotic – the sign of a good abstract.
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So much to see. I am glad you see it as you do. Sometimes I get so involved with an image it is almost like being hypnotized.
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Wonderful! What intriguing patterns.
If this was stone, I’d guess it was fossils called “orthoceras,” a kind of nautiloid
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A new creature to me. I see it but as I mentioned above, there are so many different visions to an abstract. Thanks, Robert.
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This one is stunning, Steve, such beautiful patterns and a perfect comp for them.
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Thanks, Jackson. I tried a couple of different compositions but this appealed to me the most. Glad that it does to you.
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It’s like the creator of patterns went all out that time…worked on a masterpiece….and left it for you to appreciate. Just gorgeous.
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And I accepted it gladly. Jack Frost was working a little bit of magic on this day.
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What a wonderful, complex image. It’s like a collage of natural shapes. I see a couple of shells — a Turritella near the top (the small, spirally one) and an elongated Murex just to its left. There are cattails next to the Murex, and a long stalk of grass to its right, bisecting the image diagonally. I guess that would have been Steve’s road. Now that I look again, I see lichens next to the cattails, on the left. It’s stunning, what natural forces can produce.
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I will have to look them up as I know little about shells. Now if I made my living at the edge of the water. But I do get to see ice’s intricacies each winter and appreciate the wonder that is nature’s chaos ( a favorite book by photographer Eliot Porter and James Gleick). It is also stunning what we can find if we only take the time to see.
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