Ornament [Canon 5D]
December 15, 2008
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Today's photograph is from 3 years ago on December 15, 2008. We awoke that day to find everything covered in about 8 inches of snow. That much snow in December is a rarity for us; typically our major snows don't show up until January. This is a double-mirror interpretation of a large snow-covered oak tree in our back yard (you can see the original image at then end of this post).
I love to play around with image mirrors because they can transform a scene into something unexpected and delightfully abstract. Natural forms and architectural subjects work particularly well with this technique. Even if you have a general idea how an image might turn out when the mirror effect is applied, the results are often surprising. For black and white interpretations of bold, graphic subjects on white, such as this oak tree, inverting the image also creates an interesting result.
I thought that the mirrored version of this snowy oak tree looked like a delicate Christmas Tree ornament or a snowflake. Of course, the case could also be made that it also looks a bit like a strange insect, or a neural network in the brain (and nothing says "Christmas" like a neural network in the brain!).
The original snowy oak tree photo
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