On Mon, July 25, 2011 04:01, wildimages@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > >>> Rob Talbot - Hot Ashes >> >>I've been having lots of fun imagining how the person who set this up >>got it just right. I've often noticed the way ashes finish if no >>breeze or well-intentioned fire extinguisher messes with them. >>Selecting the wood so it would burn out and make the pattern would be >>quite an amusement. >> >>Using some artsy filter in Photoshop would not be half as much fun. > > > I wish I could claim some creativity here ... sadly it's just an "objet > trouvé". All I had to do was point the > camera, focus and fire. It's the top of somebody's black plastic dustbin > (US= Trash Can?) on a frosty morning. I've enjoyed the mystery! (And am pleased that ice crystals was one of my explicit theories.) -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info