Karesansui Late Rock Garden by TwoPynts
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Description
"The silent ripples On gravel shores are breaking, Frozen in motion." ~Karesansui Haiku
Postwork included copying the areas I wanted to remain in color to separate layers, then converting the background to grayscale and then resizing and adding signature and border. Taken at the widest zoom on my lens, you can see the distortion of the back wall. From Wikipedia: "A Japanese rock garden, sometimes mistakenly called a Zen garden, is an enclosed shallow sandpit containing sand, gravel, rocks, and occasionally grass and/or other natural elements. The main elements of karesansui are rocks and sand, with the sea symbolized not by water but by sand raked in patterns that suggest rippling water. Plants are much less important (and sometimes nonexistent) in many karesansui gardens. Karesansui gardens are often, but not always, meant to be viewed from a single, seated position. Some Westerners believe that karesansui gardens can be used to calm human minds, but they were not intended for such in their native Japanese settings." This garden at the Morikami is very similar to the famous Japanese rock garden is at Ryoan-ji in northwest Kyoto, Japan. -----
Thanks for your rippley comments on my previous upload,
Earth Day Reflections
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Olympus C8080wz & PhotoshopCS. (1125)
Morikami Japanese Gardens, Boca Raton, FL, USA 2008
Sponsored by: 
Kramer Kreations 
Comments (43)
love the selective coloring of the fern and penny and drawn to the sand lines circling the sculpture nicely shot kort!
Amazing!! Love the single leaf!
**** FYI, that is a leaf, not a penny. :o) ****
Bravo Kort a very attractive image.
superb image my friend, great work !!
I love the textures and the selective colouring here Kort! Excellent work!! I was going to ask about the orange leaf too! lol!
A stunning photo of this zen garden. The postwork and coloring is just incredible.
Nice and serene
I loved this garden. I remember how taken I was with it. Unfortunately all of my shots of it came out horrible. I'm so glad you were able to take a great one like this. The detail in the texture is fabulous. Have a beautiful day, Kortalouche. -M :^) PS Glad to hear you guys in the forum have been discussing the Orphan legislation. I looked but didn't see any posts about it. Feel free to remove it if you think it's superfluous...
Beautiful work. well done.
i love the paterns
This beauty still appeals to my little Zen heart no matter what it is called.
Wonderful image!
So peacful capture, and a selective coloring add a special mood to this shot.
Really Good, the leaf adds so much, giving the image a human touch.
wonderful shot of this
Love how you have coloured the fern here it makes it look very dramatic.
Very good way of separating the living from the unorganic and fossilized.
Marvelous!
LOL... I was just about to ask you if that was a penny? Good thing I read...lol Nice shot. Aloha
Excellent work! : )
Zen............. very nice!!!!!!
I just love japanese gardens, this is beautiful!
nice pic ! BW, green and orange.. good selection and cool pic :oD
Indeed, it reminds me Ryoan-ji in Kyoto
Timeless ripples. Wonderful comp
Wowww this is a real amazing manipulated BW photography! The fern between the two rocks looks so wonderful!!!
Fantastic image! The post work is fantastic, and given the nature of the image itself, perfectly subtle. Fantastic work!
I really like these gardens, with the representation of the water, through the sand...man, that must take ages to master the raking technique ! The selective colouring is fantastic and draws you eye to all the finer details ! KKK (Kool, Kaputre, Kort !) & ~Cheers~
Beautiful!