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Challenge: Abstract III (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
Location: Mt. Holly Springs
Date: Sep 25, 2011
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/30
Date Uploaded: Sep 25, 2011

 The persistent rains have washed away much of the soil from the roots of the corn stalks in the acres of fields surrounding my home. The stalks are beautiful in their patterned rows and now that the farmers have cleared some areas you can wander around getting your shoes stuck in the soil which sucks you down into a place where the corn takes its hold. I've been intrigued by the will of these roots to hold on. While I try to sloosh and gluck out of the muck the corn holds firm even if it's tilted. One of the leaves had fallen down to the roots and had dry rotted before the rains. It clung, wrapped and caressed each root like a lecherous old skeletal hand caressing above and between each "leg" of the root cluster.

I dig nature. (Yeah....sometimes I actually do.......dig...gardens.....dig clay, paints, earth, photography.) I think nature is sexier than most people.

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 04/25/2013 09:24:50 AM
Enjoy your comment & observations. Photo may be cropped - close view - no doubt a viable approach to achieving or pursuing abstraction, though not always successful by itself.
 10/03/2011 08:34:19 AM
The persistent rains have washed away much of the soil from the roots of the corn stalks in the acres of fields surrounding my home. The stalks are beautiful in their patterned rows and now that the farmers have cleared some areas you can wander around getting your shoes stuck in the soil which sucks you down into a place where the corn takes its hold. I've been intrigued by the will of these roots to hold on. While I try to sloosh and gluck out of the muck the corn holds firm even if it's tilted. One of the leaves had fallen down to the roots and had dry rotted before the rains. It clung, wrapped and caressed each root like a lecherous old skeletal hand caressing above and between each "leg" of the root cluster.

I dig nature. (Yeah....sometimes I actually do.......dig...gardens.....dig clay, paints, earth, photography.) I think nature is sexier than most people.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/02/2011 11:26:23 PM
666
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 10/02/2011 09:41:07 PM
something about a grass skirt.
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 10/02/2011 01:18:03 AM
great title. rough, seductive and repulsive image

I'm hanging this in my abstract gallery

  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/26/2011 06:57:44 PM
looks like an upside-down palm tree
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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