Elements of Nature
I hesitated to post another shot of the Natural Bridge falls today, but I like this one enough that I decided to go with it. To me it represents the pure and basic elements of nature as they exist together, a continual cycle of renewal that spans time beyond comprehension. Understandably, people are attracted to old things, artifacts and curiosities that have endured centuries or millennia to rest before our very eyes. But the truth is that any simple, single stone you pick up knows more about time than all of mankind. Surely life exists out of optimism, does it not?
Why on earth would you hesitate to publish another shot of the same area? When compared to yesterday’s shot, this gives a better sense of scale (but I still had to remind myself on how big it really is). It also goes to show quite well how different angles change the picture.
Without the commentary, I would have suspected the location to be the same, but wouldn’t know for sure.
Sorry for the delay, Ramin. The initial hesitation to post a similar image was mostly because I like diversifying things a bit. Looking at images of the same scene over and over gets old, but two days in a row isn’t so bad.
Have you ever played around with 3D images? I’ve just started myself and it’s pretty amazing what they do for scale…since you can actually see the scene with depth in it. I’m going to try to post one 3d image per week and see how folks like it…but the key is getting your eyes to focus while crossed…check out my buddy Neil’s post here.
I’ve looked at Neil’s 3D images several times, but due to problems with my eyesight I just can’t get them to work.
But I can imagine how much better they can be in visualizing landscapes and scale.
Those 3D images can be difficult to “allow” your eyes to figure out, that’s for sure. It took me a number of tries (over about a week) for me to finally get it figure out. What I realized is that I was crossing my eyes too much. It’s a subtle thing…you only cross them enough so that the two images slide toward each other and once they line up (and you see three blurry images before you) you just rest your eyes and allow them to focus naturally. Even this step took me up to 5 seconds or so until I practiced it enough. If you’re unable to make it work, then you’re unable to make it work. But I have bad eyes too and it took some repeated effort on my part to get it down. Maybe one day, eh?
Thanks Ramin.