Bob Talbot <BobTalbot@st-abbs.fsnet.co.uk> writes: > > Well, I'm not 100% sure what Bob Talbot's > > messing at - is there a message here?? > It's just (a) nature (photographer) imitating art? > > What message - beauty is in the eye of the beholder? > The shot was simply a macro shot of the trunk of a tree - some sort of > maple? > Dunno, I took lots of bark shots that year. Had forgotten all about > this till someone forwarded me the link to an Italian artist's > gallery. Ahh. Well I confess I thought the worst of you; was sure that was muscle tissue. Well, that's a favourite theme - that totally different organisms come up with similar solutions to basic structural problems. Better not advertise "On growth and form", the best book ever written again. > > > Anyway, just my pic of the week: Greg's Siesta. > Yes, I felt that was the best too: sommat really special about it. > (Not sure the review got through). > > > <<Only a very slight niggle: I > > wish I could see just a smidgen of the right eye.>> > I'll take it you liked the chocolate then? The whole colour scheme is chocolate, so how could I not like it? > > My [BC] encylopedic ignorance encompasses a lot, including almost the > entire > > works of Manuel Bravo, > The more I study, the more I read, the more I realise the scale of > what I don't know. > Links like this - provide a few minutes insight in to what is > important for others. Yes, a few hours on the web and you realise just how much stuff there is out there; a few hundreds of hours later you realise just how much of it is junk, but then you remember that subtracting a Simply Enormous number >from a larger Simply Enormous number leaves a whole worldful of gems. Brian Chandler ---------------- geo://Sano.Japan.Planet_3 Jigsaw puzzles from Japan at: http://imaginatorium.org/shop/
