Seeing 2011 (#175)

For your consideration: after hibernating for nearly exactly a year, a canvas culled, massaged and significantly enhanced from my increasingly large pool of overlooked images.

From a relatively young age I've been drawn to the profound depths and stunning variety found in the night sky; the planets seemed to me to be living entities of their own, resplendent with character lines and personalities to match. Of special, enduring fascination has been Jupiter, in particular its centuries-old storm which by itself is the size of several Earths.

The subject of this submission is considerably more benign and entirely terrestrial in its nature: an otherwise ordinary plank of wood, whose topography has been transformed by the tools available to me in the digital darkroom.

Red Spot, #2828-20D

© 2011 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.

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Details: December 5, 2010; Canon 20D; f/2.8 @ 1/160 sec; —1/3 EV; ISO 400; Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM

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