Seeing 2010 (#48)

For your consideration: a natural abstraction courtesy of life tenaciously clinging to a rocky environment. How often do we find more than meets the eye in a given setting: here a multitude of collected organisms array themselves in such a way as to suggest quite a different entity altogether, perhaps the fossil of an ancient alien visitor.

This image presented unexpected challenges, not the least of which was low intensity indirect lighting, and a markedly uneven surface which posed depth-of-field issues for the close macro. In fact my original intent was to publish this scene in its original colors (light sea green with blotches of orange and red in the "background"), with its inherent surrealism enhanced via slight saturation increases . . . Efforts in that direction proved unsatisfying, but a sudden vision as a black&white rendering lead to this result.

Lichen (Levitation), #7091

© 2010 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.

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Details: March 30, 2010; Canon 20D; f/5.6 @ 1/640 sec; -1 EV; ISO 400; 100mm.

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