Luis I normally leave responding to reviews till later in the week but 1) I've lost my second modem at home in only a few months so can't guarantee to do it later. 2) You hit the nail on the head over what I saw in the "pattern": I hadn't thought anyone on PF would even have heard of Uffington ... but that is closest to what I saw that led me to take the shot ... > "Pattern", by Bob Talbot - White on red patterns. What are the colors due to ? This really is just "one more pebble on the beach". It's just another macro shot at somewhere between 1:1 and 2:1 of a red sandstone pebble (side lit) with there white granitic (???) streaks running through it. The colours are hard to judge because in life (dry) it has a matt surface that you cannot reproduce on a chrome / monitor / gloss print. It needs to be printed on matt paper. The redness is VERY much sronger if you wet the pebble. > No matter, for this human eye immediatelt leaps to > the forms, and while a pattern is just a pattern, > this is like lying on your back and looking at clouds. >Yeah, just clouds, My description was in apology for a comment I made to Andy's image last week. In a way *I* see things in my picture and like it ... but it really is "Just a pattern". > but the human mind rarely rests, and often confabulates shapes and stories > in a waking dream, at least for dreamers, who need very little prompting to > launch...and this pattern is asymmetrical in a spontaneous manner, > the moment I saw it, Finnish Reindeer came to mind, walking like > a giant centipede in the snow-carpeted dark forests... I think that is part of it's quality for me (or I would not have shown it). I see different pictures at different times: none of them a perfect match to anything real-worldy. > then I am reminded of the gigantic chalk figures of England.... > particularly a series of horses (Uffington ?), THAT is what I meant by you hitting the nail on the head "White Horse Hill" is but 10 miles from where I sit. The view in the link ... http://www.adrian.smith.clara.net/waylands.html shows it from the air ... and it looks less of a horse than my pattern (at least mine has a rider in armour on it's back ;o) The thing about this white horse is that it can't be seen from the ground properly: but again, it is just a pattern ;o) Bob _______________________________________________________________________ Freeserve AnyTime, only £13.99 per month with one month's FREE trial! For more information visit http://www.freeserve.com/time/ or call free on 0800 970 8890
