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New - Water Musing : Water is a muse - a source of creative inspiration.  It can also cause one to muse, to reflect on the sights before one, and their explanation or cause.  Water, itself, with light, creates reflections.  

A whole string of word and thought associations arise from the gallery title, so a broad range of images will fit it. I'll place here new images of water itself, primarily closeups, and of water interacting with other things.  When the images are "retired" to more permanent galleries, they will probably end up in several different ones.

Caveat:  Since pictures come and go in this gallery, gallery comments might refer to pictures that are now long gone.

New - Water Musing

arctangent

Water is a muse - a source of creative inspiration. It can also cause ...

Updated: May 24, 2013 2:10am PST

Art in Nature : Images of things in nature that focus on some aspect of visual appeal that goes beyond mere recording of the normal view of the objects or scenes in question.  'Art' is used here is a rather loose sense, in the sense that a certain amount of imagination was required to produce the images, and more imagination still on the part of the viewer to see what I saw; and in the sense that there is a certain aesthetic quality to the result.  These are very subjective choices, of course.

Art in Nature

arctangent

Images of things in nature that focus on some aspect of visual appeal ...

Updated: May 24, 2013 2:08am PST

Under the Bridge (Dixboro Road) : One of my favorite places to photograph the play of light on moving water is at the Geddes Dam on the Huron River, and under the Dixboro Road bridge which crosses the river just downstream of the dam.  All of the structures, as well as the vegetation, provide subjects for 'fractured' reflections.  Especially in late afternoon there are opportunities for geometric abstracts involving light and shadows.  Along the banks a number of rocks, partially submerged, offer shots of water foaming around them and pouring over them.  The tailraces of the dam give views of surging, roiling water, and of collected debris, depending on whether water is flowing.  The water that emerges from the tailraces often contain rafts of bubbles that are interesting in themselves, or can decorate the various reflections.

If certain images, looking just at the thumbnails, seem to be duplicated, please open them up.  One will be an 'original'.  The other(s) will have been treated with various filters or other special effects.

I decided to upload and collect (older images) all such pictures to a single gallery, to give me and other viewers a better sense of the place, and the inspiration it gives me as a photographer.  I have also created a "Geddes Bridge..." gallery in "Places - Near/ Ann Arbor area parks" for scenes of this area along the river ( http://arctangent.smugmug.com/Places-Near/Ann-Arbor-area-parks/Geddes-Dam-Gallup-Parker-Mill/19450863_PFZNQp )

Under the Bridge (Dixboro Road)

arctangent

One of my favorite places to photograph the play of light on moving wa ...

Updated: May 24, 2013 2:08am PST

Pictures of Wild Birds of Prey. :

Pictures of Wild Birds of Prey.

johnchapmanphotographer

Updated: May 24, 2013 1:39am PST

Redwoods Nat Park - May 2013 :

Redwoods Nat Park - May 2013

Robert Dennis

Updated: May 23, 2013 11:05pm PST

Strictly For The Birds :

Strictly For The Birds

Tony Britton

Updated: May 23, 2013 8:55pm PST

Unidentified insects :

Unidentified insects

Antoni Uni

Updated: May 23, 2013 7:37pm PST

Malheur 2013 : These photos were taken from 5/7/2013 - 5/10/2013

Malheur 2013

Dan Streiffert

These photos were taken from 5/7/2013 - 5/10/2013

Updated: May 23, 2013 5:20pm PST

Brazos Bend State Park 2013 : Wildlife and Nature

Brazos Bend State Park 2013

DHaass

Wildlife and Nature

Updated: May 23, 2013 5:18pm PST

Images :

Images

arnohelfer

Updated: May 23, 2013 1:56pm PST

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