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Cattail Meditations
Bloomville, NY - GGP - Thursday, December 8th, 2005 : goo
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A few weeks ago, the combination of wind, shortening days, and cooling weather began to take their toll on the local cattails. Their bodies are so evocative to me; even more so as the tassels come unloosed and the cattails "let their hair down."
These unique and pleasing textures inspired me to do some tweaking in photoshop for a trippier botanical effect.
When I was a kid, I thought botany was about as boring as you could get. The older I get--the more tree-like, I suppose--the more I appreciate the astonishing quality of the plant world: the biology, the reproductive creativity, the aesthetics.
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jack: no comment but interesting.
Peter: 9th Dec 2005 - 04:33 GMT
awesome. i like both the extensive post and your creative thoughts via photoshop. awesome! cat-tails are so pretty... and such a token of autumn around here.
joey: 9th Dec 2005 - 04:39 GMT
looking at the last two photoshopped images, reminds me of john updike.
adam: 9th Dec 2005 - 08:19 GMT
i cant really look at filtered/plugin pictures from photoshop (ever again) but the photos were excellent. i love my telephoto lens too :)
ps.. these pics are a little phallic but thats another story i suppose
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