Going knots over a fence #11 by goodoleboy
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Captured 9/23/13, very early in the AM, about a 1.25 miles from home.
For definitive cool detail, this one has to be ZOOMED.
Since it is so unappealing from a distance, I must have passed by this fence a zillion times before giving it any close attention.
Actually, these are far from the prettiest knots I ever shot, but the patterns and textures surrounding them are beyond epic, what with the deep repetitive striations, shadows and undulating whorls.
Farvel.
Comments (10)
A wondrous variety of textures!
Nice shots!
Nice work on this very cool collage, Harry
Very nice texture!! nice detail of the knot and nails!!Well done!!!!!!!!!
:) The textures and whorls are awesome, great shots, Harry.
I'm sure there's some really cool biological explanation for why and how knots are formed, but I never got that class. For me they're just magic, as is the texture of the wood, in the whorls and grooves as they travel out and away from knot central. Great set of shots, Harry; it does pay to look closely to everything, doesn't it?
Fantastic shots and great serie !!!
One of your best picket fence photos / collages . Great colors patterns and textures !
Love the colors you added to these nice work!
Ditto Andrea, a wondrous variety. People seem to agree this is a wonderful collection. I agree too. The colors are almost of the rainbow, esp in the first 3. (The light from between the planks is nicely eerie too---kind of blue white.) No, the knots aren't necessarily gorgeous, but they sure make a splash in the wood: creating, as you say, deep striations, shadows and undulating whorls. Amazing what knots do to the processes in a tree. They're like a boulder in a stream, they reshape the flow all around it. Also, in the top 3, I notice you have a slight angle downwards, which is very well chosen, because it allows a tapering 'out' of the striations, as we move up. It gives a drama to the wood as it moves up. And the colors are amazing---I assume from old finish, mold, weather, etc. And in your usual montage-sense, you ended with a different group: The last one's punctuated by a line of nails (and one philips screw). Lol, nice ending shot, like those are the 'periods' to the planks' sentences. This is such a wonderful series, Harry, there's so much variety in all your fence closeups. And the knots really become cataclysms in your shots---which is what they are in nature, in a way. Knots, as I recall, are formed where branches once were, and the tree just grew around them, leaving detritus, denser wood (from biological pileup) and all those waves emanating away from them. They're also caused by infections sometimes. Fascinating things. They're presumably bad for heavy structural wood, because the wood is weak at the knot. But for fence planks---or decorative wood---they're reminders of the primal beauty nature, and your eye grabs them because they're almost volcanic. I mean, if this were an aerial view of a land-mass? One would say that something 'huge' happened here way back in geological time. For the tree, it was probably huge as well. More fine detailed work from you, and this one has beautiful hues.