Angles lines and a dirty great big rock: Angles lines and a dirty great big rock. Dirty big rock to be found in the pond outside Starbucks near where I live. Crazy lines and a huge...

Billyspad Loc: The Philippines

Angles lines and a dirty great big rock. Dirty big rock to be found in the pond outside Starbucks near where I live.

Crazy lines and a huge rock living in a pond! Perfect territory for ol Billy.
Enjoy a Latte and wonder how the rock landed in the pond maybe.
Stroke the cat and pass an hour away.

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Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

Billyspad wrote:

Angles lines and a dirty great big rock. Dirty big rock to be found in the pond outside Starbucks near where I live.

Crazy lines and a huge rock living in a pond! Perfect territory for ol Billy.
Enjoy a Latte and wonder how the rock landed in the pond maybe.
Stroke the cat and pass an hour away.

Angles! Triangles! Inter-sections! Re-fractions! Re-fractions! Being lead by lines! Patterns (regular)! Patterns (irregular)! Depth! And your disappearing point approximates the upper-right "power point of Thirds" !!!!!!

And, to my eye, not a square millimeter (millimetre?) of negative space.
The mind boggles!

But I am bereft!
(Where's Dave?)

Y'r gettin' there, fella!

Dave

neilds37 Loc: Port Angeles, WA

Where's the exit to get my eyes out of this maze?

Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

Uuglypher wrote:

?...Re-fractions! Re-fractions!....
Dave

Sorry, meant t'say "...Reflections! Re-fractions!...."

Dave

Frank2013 Loc: San Antonio, TX. & Milwaukee, WI.

Billyspad wrote:

Angles lines and a dirty great big rock. Dirty big rock to be found in the pond outside Starbucks near where I live.

Crazy lines and a huge rock living in a pond! Perfect territory for ol Billy.
Enjoy a Latte and wonder how the rock landed in the pond maybe.
Stroke the cat and pass an hour away.

Must be a friend of Norman's. Well done Mr. Spad like everything about this one. Great treatment.

neilds37 Loc: Port Angeles, WA

neilds37 wrote:

Where's the exit to get my eyes out of this maze?

You can claim you aren't an artist Billy, but I'd say you have to have an artists eye to have captured this. Good days work!

MattPhox Loc: Rhode Island

Yeah, what they said!

jim hill Loc: Springfield, IL

Billyspad wrote:

Angles lines and a dirty great big rock. Dirty big rock to be found in the pond outside Starbucks near where I live.

Crazy lines and a huge rock living in a pond! Perfect territory for ol Billy.
Enjoy a Latte and wonder how the rock landed in the pond maybe.
Stroke the cat and pass an hour away.

I see very inviting patterns and relationships in the boulder - or whatever it is. And the mostly white of it would give me something I have been looking for but never found - white patterns. No whitish rocks in this part of the country.

I am curious about your placement of the dirty white mass. It seems to create a lot of tension and I am wondering if it is in the act of hovering after flying in and what is holding it up. I'll probably be losing some sleep over this one. My mind plays funny games with me when ever I am perplexed by a photograph.

Anyhoo, there's tons of stuff to look at in this photograph. Really complex in it's perception and execution.

Good work, Billy. A fun photograph to ponder.

jgordon Loc: Boulder CO

Billyspad wrote:

Angles lines and a dirty great big rock. Dirty big rock to be found in the pond outside Starbucks near where I live.....

This is a good photograph -- but a little chaotic for my particular sensibility. Maybe a tad too much visual input for me. Yet, there is much here I like. A fine effort.

Billyspad Loc: The Philippines

Uuglypher wrote:

Angles! Triangles! Inter-sections! Re-fractions! Re-fractions! Being lead by lines! Patterns (regular)! Patterns (irregular)! Depth! And your disappearing point approximates the upper-right "power point of Thirds" !!!!!!

And, to my eye, not a square millimeter (millimetre?) of negative space.
The mind boggles!

But I am bereft!
(Where's Dave?)

Y'r gettin' there, fella!

Dave

Do not be bereft my friend. Dave as you are aware is naturally nocturnal and had been working the night shift. As stated elsewhere Mrs Dave is with egg and he is working extra hours to afford bunk beds for the nest. His wife is looking rather large!!!

I think you said you liked and thanks for calling by. Hope the new hinge is settling down now.

Billyspad Loc: The Philippines

Frank2013 wrote:

Must be a friend of Norman's. Well done Mr. Spad like everything about this one. Great treatment.

Thanks for dropping by young Frank. Your input is always welcome.

Billyspad Loc: The Philippines

neilds37 wrote:

You can claim you aren't an artist Billy, but I'd say you have to have an artists eye to have captured this. Good days work!

Not the eye of an artist at all I reckon. This was part of a 90 minute walk close to my home practicing with my new camera. I noticed all the crazy lines and angles and took a shot from where it appeared to have most semblance of order. Thought it would be one for the reject bin but on download it sorta worked for me. Black and white was to get rid of some of the chaos and concentrate the eye on the lines and angles.
So a lucky snap in all honesty.
I very much appreciate you calling by and taking the trouble to comment.

Billyspad Loc: The Philippines

MattPhox wrote:

Yeah, what they said!

Cheers Matt my man. Keep safe on that bike fella.

Billyspad Loc: The Philippines

jim hill wrote:

I see very inviting patterns and relationships in ... (show quote)

The rock is strange as I have not seen white rocks anywhere else here. It may be from another island or even imported. The place where it resides appears, by Filipino standards, to have been built with scant regards to cost. And Starbucks has a loan desk inside the cafe so you can spread the cost of a latte and Danish!

Glad you like the picture Jim

Billyspad Loc: The Philippines

jgordon wrote:

This is a good photograph -- but a little chaotic for my particular sensibility. Maybe a tad too much visual input for me. Yet, there is much here I like. A fine effort.

It is chaotic which I suppose was its attraction to me. I could not find a frame that conveyed the message in a less chaotic way Im afraid.
But I know what you mean.

Thank you for calling by and commenting your interest is very much appreciated