Beautiful perspective, great take on the challenge.
Artist: Dire Straits
Song Lyrics: Love Over Gold
You walk out on the high wire
You're dancer on thin ice
You pay no heed to the danger
And less to advice
Your footsteps are forbidden
But with knowledge of your sin
You throw your love to all the strangers
And caution to the wind
And you go dancing through doorways
Just to see what you will find
Leaving nothing to interfere
With the crazy balance of your mind
And when you finally reappear
At the place where you came in You're thrown your love to all the strangers
And caution to the wind
I takes love over gold
And mind over matter
To do what you to that you must
When the things that you hold
Can fall and be shattered
Or run through your fingers like dust
Here are the beasties, in all some of their glory, snuggled up in the botanical gardens' orchid house in Oslo. According to the info there, they hail from Australia and a called (no doubt in some Aboriginal vernacular) polypodiaceae, no less. Is sherpet's 'stag horn' the common name in Oz?
The frame: It's done in its own layer, maybe. With dimensions of X by Y pixels for the whole picture, a rectangular marquee at X-20 by Y-20 is moved 10 clicks left and 10 clicks up by way of arrow keys. The stroke function gives it a line inside of it - I think I plucked the green from the middle of one of the stems. Then the selection is reversed and brown sampled from around the - ahem - vanishing point is painted on with a brush tool at about 400 pixels wide and NB! 60% oppacity. I suspect that I may have done all or some of this on a new canvas of identical dimensions to the picture. This would enable the border to be edited with brightness/contrast and/or curves, without affecting the rest. I don't remember for sure, but something along those lines, as I recall . . .
In the meanwhiletime, I'm loving the comments, many thanks.
Nothing could interfere with the crazy balance of your mind. Totally cool OOB perspective - and a nice high score despite it. Great complexity and fun to look at. I like the frame. How do you do that?
Not sure I understand but this shot definately held my attention longer than others did. The frame though usually not well received at DPC doesn't seem to detract from this image. 7
Hmm... I love this pic - it's really beautiful. But I really don't think it meets the challenge - to me it's not enough that some lines coverge, but that parallel lines converge as they go to infinity - that's not what's happening here. I expect you predicted some of these responses, though.
That said, it's really a marvelous picture; great color and DOF, and the texture of the veins is great.
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