10 December 2010
Patterns
Felt the need for a little abstract beauty this evening (morning). I was looking through my recent shoots for an image that was or could be reduced to mostly just pattern. The evening I shot sunset at Cape Henlopen State Park, this was the first pattern in the sand ripples that caught my eye. I liked the way the little enclosures in the sand ripples made a repeating (yet ever slightly changing) pattern of their own. By increasing the contrast and doing a high contrast B&W conversion using a gradient map in Photoshop, I hoped to emphasize the pattern of the sunlit ridges.
Wishing you a pleasant end to your week.
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Interesting photo. I was wondering what makes those little enclosures in the sand ripples.
ReplyDeleteHi Gayle. Thanks for the comments. You have a very good question. Honestly, I'm not 100% sure what caused the enclosures, but if I had to make an educated guess, I'd say that something about the topography of the beach at that spot (or something about how the waves hit at that spot due to features farther out) causes little swirling eddy currents and that deposits the sand particles in these circular patterns.
ReplyDelete@Kerri: When I tried to post your comment this morning I must have accidentally hit the wrong link on my iPhone and I deleted your comment instead of publishing it. I can't seem to get it back. I'm sorry and please feel free to comment again.
ReplyDeleteThis post from Kerri Farr (I accidentally deleted it, but got the text from the email notification): "Really cool capture!! "
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