Chimney Lichen III
A few weeks ago I did a post of lichen on the ceremonial chimneys in the Chinese Cemetery at Harling Point and then revisited it a few days ago with shots from last weekend. These are more photographs from last weekend.
These are all part of a theme, architectural stripes of more or less lichen and shadow. In this post they without context, but you can see how these fit into the side of the chimney in my earlier post, in this picture.
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Canon 5Dii, Canon 50mm/f1.4 macro, ISO500, polarizing filter. Top f16, 1/80th. Upper Middle f5, 1/800th. Lower Middle f2.8, 1/4,000th. Bottom, f2.8, 1/2,000th.
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burnt embers 
the first one is a cake stuffed ‘?
😉 bad, my english!
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Hi foto – thank you for visiting and for commenting. I understand perfectly what you mean – in English we would say a layered cake, or layer cake. And it does have that feel.
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Soak cake? 😉 ahah, thank you, Ciao
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Excellent work. You’ve made a scene that 99% of people would ignore, look beautiful. I think the last two are the best, but it’s interesting to see the first one as that gives them some context.
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Hi Malcolm, thanks for your great comments. Sometimes it seems better to lose the context entirely but I agree this is one of those situations where some context helps. My previous post for this subject had the context from even futher away.
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Beautiful detailed study of this, my friend. You can almost feel them from here!!
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Thanks so much Toad. Tactile photography! What a goal to set.
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Beautiful. I love the point of view.
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Thank you Ryan.
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More miniature worlds to explore. Thanks for responding to my comments. It is fun to share thoughts!
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Hi, it is one of the best things about blogging is the dialogue that can go with it. I tried to find some small landscapes in these, but did not feel I could really pull it off effectively. Some missing element – or maybe its just too orange to be convincing.
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I think I just zoom in on the bits where it does look like a bigger landscape. They are meditative for me.
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And maybe, as I am from Australia (the “wide brown land” with the “red centre” which is also quite orangey) the orange/yellow fits with my idea of a landscape more than it would for others.
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I can see that for sure. We don’t have those red soils in this part of the world – they are extremely old and our soil is mostly less than 12,000 years old forming since the last glaciation (which seems old, but not nearly enough for that colour, if I understand my paleoenvironmentalist friends properly).
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Turmeric on the chimney! 😉
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Hey Karen – it has the great colour. Not sure I would want to spice my food with this lichen though – but then who knows, maybe it has medicinal value, or something.
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Wow, I love these. Great work! 🙂
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Hi Nandini – glad you like them. I am a tiny bit ambivalent about them – not sure that the stripey effect really works.
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