The first of a few from yesterday’s shoot at Hop Brook in Holland Glen along the New England Trail in Belchertown, MA. Hop Brook is a fairly common name in New England.
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This one has a horizontally pinched-in look, in large part because of that “nose” at the center.
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There a rock situated just right to cause the cascade to have that appearance.
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The flow has an hourglass shape, and the water flows in different directions – a dynamic image.
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Thanks, Tom. It is a bit unusual but that’s what I was looking for.
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Nice Steve! You anc see the movement and “energy” in your image.
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Thanks, Reed. Glad that you can see that.
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Wow. You just keep on doing it. You’re going to have to get some awfully big walls.
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Wall stretchers on order. Thanks!
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One of your absolute finest, Steve. Masterly! Absolutely masterly!
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That’s a great comment and especially appreciated, Rob.
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Great shot, Steve. I see a deer head! 🙂
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Thank you, Eliza. I’m not seeing that but do see a head of hair. 🙂
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The shape is extraordinary, Steve. Lovely job.
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Thank you, Pete.
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Wow. Just had an opportunity to get a closer look at this one. Based on the comments, all seeing something different, I’d say you scored big with this image. Sort of a wet “Rorschach inkblot test.” Are the burnt umber colors behind the water from leaves or rocks? Fascinating water patterns!
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Thanks, Bob. That happens with many of these flow abstracts. Usually they are not things that I see having a slow imagination but once someone points it out I then cannot unsee it. The brown tones are both rock and leaves. I cleared a few twigs and branches, one a very large branch, and was very careful not to dislodge all the leaves.
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Something occurred to me immediately with my first look, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, so I read all the comments so far, to see if anyone else had “seen” what I did. No one had. So I had a closer look—and the whole structure is a wonderful, whimsical face! The slanted rock at mid-right is the nose and the white cascade water a marvelous mustache—and it’s giving us a big wink!
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That’s funny. I hadn’t seen a face but when you mentioned it all of sudden one showed up but slightly different than your vision. The main part of the composition, front and center, looks like a nose and the oval dark spot on the left of that, an eye, and then the mustache. WInk, wink, nod, nod.
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I see a dog with the right eye closed, a long nose and with very gorgeous dark and white hair with orange highlights. Amazing. 🙂
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That’s another good one, Tanja. I prefer dog noses. 🙂
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That’s good as I’m sure you get your daily dose of cold, wet dog nose. 🐶
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Indeed I do. 😀
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Curvaceous! 🙂
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Yup. I wasn’t going to say anything and give away my macho instincts but I do see the female form there. 🙂
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