Natural Formation

Gallery: Photo ArtPosted July 25, 201183 views9 comments

This composite started as a 10-image stack of a dry gourd I photographed indoors with halogen light. The final image here uses one version distorted and one not, masked and overlayed on a sunset from earlier this month, and a few geese thrown in to mess with the scale. Trying for a grand scale of a natural formation. Larger version included.

Thanks for looking, comments welcome and appreciated.

Comments

9 comments

Comment posted by Ron Pederson on July 25, 2011 at 8:27 AM

I couldn't resist showing another version with a snapshot my wife took of me walking around on this formation. Well, it was actually stolen from a snapshot taken on a trip to Montreal, Canada a couple of years ago....

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Comment posted by Patricia Brundage on July 25, 2011 at 8:27 AM

Had me fooled until I read your intro. What an imagination you have and the skill to implement it. Well done!

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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on July 25, 2011 at 9:06 AM

Like the second version best Ron, your placement in the frame is perfect.
Gives this almost other worldly creation a grand scale

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Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on July 25, 2011 at 8:17 PM

This is pretty cool. Looks like you're wandering around on the tail of some prehistoric monster.

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Comment posted by Jeremy Week on July 25, 2011 at 11:27 PM

Interesting image Ron. Has an abstract sort of feel for me. Well done!

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Comment posted by Carol Hyman on July 25, 2011 at 11:50 PM

Ron, this is wild, except the gourd reminds me of a giant squirming squid. The composite is beautiful, but somehow the texture of the gourd isn't quite right in my mind's eye. I think it's because the gourd looks so much like something from the ocean the way it glistens.

Keep playing.

Regards,

Carol

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Comment posted by Ron Pederson on July 26, 2011 at 6:35 AM

Thanks for the feedback everyone. Carol - This gourd was thrown outside by my wife and was exposed to the elements for nearly a year - which I think accounts for the odd texturing. My first impression when I was building this was "old excavated dinosaur bones." Jeremy - I agree, it was very abstract to me as well until I added the geese.