DianeEsk wrote on Jun 6^th, 2008 at 4:59am:


Thanks, Diane. I see what you mean, though sometimes I try not to "see" too much if I take such photos lest I impinge too much on other people's imaginations. Obviously the "eye" was a first, but beyond that it was mostly letting only a compositional eye shape the picture (that and trying to keep people and artificial distractions out of the way, not completely successfully.

Melody Dancer wrote on Jun 6^th, 2008 at 4:12pm:


Thanks, Melody Dancer. I have a certain group of acquaintances who would be tickled green by you seeing a squid in this. I know I am. I too have decided my personal preference is for the wider framing rather than cropping the image, so we share the same thought (scary, hey? ).

nas wrote on Jun 6^th, 2008 at 7:09pm:


Yes, some (but only a few) of the marks are man-made, either knife-graffiti or just damage (this is in a busy city park). I had images in my mind's eye of someone going to carve their "AB [heart]s YZ", and that "eye" suddenly opening on them. The rest of the story almost writes itself.

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O...kay. 

Actually, seriously, I can't really see where you mean, nor the image-within that you see. You might have to point it out a bit. I am not surprised though. It's a bit like cloud-visions - once you see one "rabbit" in the sky, well, to sing along with and paraphrase Bobby Darrin, "Pretty soon you got a sky full of rabbits!"".

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The monsters aren't sleeping; they're just having a respite from participation...but watching.

prosaic wrote on Jun 7^th, 2008 at 8:52am:


Hello then to Prosaic.

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"Underbelly of the Dinosaur" sounds like the wonderful title of something, Prosaic. Perhaps something you haven't written yet.

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I can show you on a map:

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Hyde+Park,+Sydney&sll=-33.86...

Where the "A" marker is, if you walk north along the white path, then it is towards, and looking towards, the north end of the green triangle on your left, before the point where all eight paths converge. Zooming out  (and perhaps hitting the "Satellite" button) will help identify its location  to other city landmarks.

Thank you all for reappraising this (with special notice of you, Diane, for bumping it back up). I am most grateful.

Claw

Claw is still around P.  I think there was a problem with his log-in at one time.

Hi Claw

I like the colour and the way the sun peeps from behind.  It is almost like an elephant or dinosaur leg but the eye in the trunk is unnerving, maiking it feel more like a creature crouching, watching.

The tree behind is much more disturbing.  The central limb looks like an elongated face with genitalia pointing out of an open mouth.   

Ok, I'll just slip away quietly.  Don't want to wake the monsters.

I love this photo. The clarity and detail are quite amazing, the subject is simple but very interesting, it looks a little like some type of creatures feet to me.

I love the picture, it makes me want to go for a walk in the woods.  The tree also makes me think of an elephants foot.  The color is perfect for that.  Or maybe it's a cyclops with its one eye watching the world!  lol

This is a wonderful tree, I think either B&W or color is fine, but why not isolate it and crop all of the other stuff out of the photo?  I think that a tight close-up would be very powerful.    Joe