Cosmic Web IV
More cosmic webs, previously shown in Cosmic Web, Iris Cosmos and Cosmic Web II and III. This time I am not cropping the original photography, but I have taken liberties in the processing to black and white. “Cosmic” this time has some of the meaning from the early 70’s, somewhat equivalent to “trippy”. Some of you know what I am talking aboout.
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Canon EOS 5D MkII, Canon 100mm/f2.8 macro lens, ISO640, f-7.1, 1/160th. Processed in Lightroom 4 and Topaz Adjust.
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burnt embers 
I imagine it’s vibrating at a sound only a tiny insect could hear. Or someone in ‘cosmic mode’.
Delicate and lovely.
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Hi Karen – thanks. I agree – these are sonic vibrations beyond our ken, at least normally.
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These are pretty trippy. The web in the first shot looks like long, skinny fingers plucking a string.
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Now that you mention it, they do look that way. Cosmic spider fingers perhaps. Which is pretty creepy.
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Wasn’t the band Cosmic Spider Fingers popular in Canada in the mid 1970s?
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Yeah, they had an electric harp player who suffered from arachnodactyly.
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Of course they did. How else would they have gotten the name for the band?!
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I have also been noticing in the background of the top photo what might be the plucker’s face (don’t say that too quickly).
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Ironically, The Plucker’s Face was also a band – a dulcimer band. Sadly, though they were considered the best of the genre, they got very little radio play because of the pronunciation problems with their name. They broke up, but later reunited, and currently tour as U2.
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Melinda:)! You are outdoing yourself with your deep knowledge of the 70’s music industry. Most survivors have no recall of such things.
Radio show hosts are notorious for fast speech – I can see the problem for the band.
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Strikingly effective as abstract design -an intricate pattern of sharp elegant lines against a dappled, ominous yet shapely backdrop of sun rays
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Hi Val. It was a pleasant discovery to find those rays in the background. In some versions, that I did not keep, they could be made into wild colours as well.
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I do know what you’re talking about although there are times in the 70’s I would like to forget. These are great, though and I like the black and white treatment.
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Thanks Ken. In the colour version the web is quite hard to see so I was looking at ways to bring it forward a bit and discovered some hidden patterns in the background too.
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