Just like a snowflake, not another exactly the same to be found.
01.26.2022 Wordless Wednesday-Pattern and Texture
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Stephen Gingold Nature Photography Blog 
fabulous 🙂
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Thank you!
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Very nice
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Thank you!
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You’ve got a leg up on ice pictures.
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Sometimes the ice causes a leg or two down but up it was this time.
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Like Steve, I saw a leg — although I went a step further and had a passing thought about Gumby. There may have been another of your ice photos that I enjoyed more, but the combination of curves, layers, and textures in this one is terrific. There’s a lot to see, and to linger over.
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Thanks! I’ll take a Gumby comparison any day. I was quite happy with this capture and glad that you are too.
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Your mention of Gumby got me wondering if the clay character’s name arose as a take-off on gumbo. Wikipedia confirms that it did: “The name ‘Gumby’ came from the muddy clay found at Clokey’s grandparents’ farm that his family called ‘gumbo.'”
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Love it! Ice is endlessly fascinating.
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Indeed, there is so much to see, always different, and always beauteous. Thanks, Eliza!
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Nice Steve! Great textures!
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Thanks, Reed. It was a (n)ice day for it.
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Ah, this photo is loaded with beautiful shapes, curves and mysterious things. My fantasy runs wild just looking at them.
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Thanks, Peter. I was quite happy with the combination of all those things. Nature provides us with so much wonder.
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Wow, this one looks almost microscopic. Or perhaps a closeup of the legs/claws of a lobster or crab.
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So may ways to interpret it. One FB friend said it reminded him of an x-ray of a dinosaur.
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I just found this guy’s youtube channel, and thought you might enjoy this hour of his Knopfler covers. It’s great working-at-the-computer music. I like acoustic, and I prefer instrumental for working. Otherwise, I start focusing on the words and lose my train of thought.
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Thanks! I’ll mark that for future listening. I quickly looked at some of his other uploads and will watch some later on as well. I often put on a Pink Floyd or Clapton concert while working but this is likely less distracting. Not being a wordsmith like you, I almost always prefer instrumentals.
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Fabulous ice! It looks like a piece of textile art to me. 🙂
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Thanks, Ann! Abstracts offer so many visions.
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The flow patterns and crystals are great – hope you’re faring well in the blizzard.
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Thanks, Tom. We only had about 3-4 inches but very drifty. I guess that you must have got hammered.
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Just 16 inches, and it’s already melting away.
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This is absolutely stunning, Steve. So many patterns, and so many textures.
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Thanks, Tanja. Ice can be endlessly beautiful and mesmerizing. I like both the simple bubbles and complex patterns like this.
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Amazing detail and design!
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Thanks, Denise! This is one of my favorite ice abstracts.
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Wow. This has me smiling. The curved shapes look just like a Henry Moore sculpture. Or a Jean Arp relief. I love the black and white here, too. I like that you kept the lighter area in the lower left because it suggests 3-dimensionality. There’s a beautiful feeling of sinuous mystery.
You have such a fine eye for a certain kind of curve and volume – I’m thinking of your Lady’s Slipper photographs. They have something in common with this one. Make sense?
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It does make sense as I guess my eye for composition might be consistent across many subjects. Or not. 😀 I’ve been watching Alister Benn’s Expressive Photography vlogs, especially the interviews with photographers, such as Guy Tal and quite a few others. One thing I have heard which is encouraging is that not everyone has a specific way of looking at things and, like me, shoots more responsively than based on a specific outlook or drive to recreate what they have seen from other photographers..
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I know Guy Tal but not Alastair Benn. I like watching interviews with artists a lot. Not that different. The idea of shooting responsively is more appealing to me than the idea of having an agenda or specific idea in mind that you’re trying to photograph. Certainly, recreating what others do isn’t a goal that makes any sense to me, unless you’re trying to learn how someone did something, and then you move on to apply it to your own work.
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I’ve become familiar with several photographers who I had not been aware of through his interviews and sharing of their images. It is at once inspiring and also a bit of a lesson about working harder.
I guess what I meant more than agenda was the pursuit of “personal style”. I am not sure whether my images could be said to be immediately recognizable and in a way I prefer that.
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