More Photoshop fun... I followed a tutorial on flipping and rotating images and (once I'd twigged what to do!) it produced some order out of chaos. Fascinating. You can try the technique on any image really and it creates patterns that you'd never expect. Snowy twigs are woven, rather surprisingly, into a wondrous cathedral-like vaulting.
I'm by no means the first to link cathedrals and trees. There are many, many such quotes:
'All churches are an echo of this - the Cathedral of Nature.' Seth Adam Smith
'Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.'
Henry Ward Beecher
'The forest is for me a temple - a cathedral of tree canopies and dancing light.' Dr Jane Goodall
Hey, I know how to do that but have never come up with anything as striking as what you've achieved there. I suspect that the parallels between trees and churches and your end result is even greater than you suggest. During the medieval period, when church architecture developed from low, dark buildings to the light, soaring structures we see today, the forest was a metaphor for all that was evil and threatening in the world - you can still get a sense of this from fairy tales and legends which have survived from those times. So churches were an attempt to bring order and beauty to the chaos of the wildwood, in much the same way that you have discovered wonderful patterns from the tangle of natural growth.
ReplyDeleteMesmerizing. I've seen that done by one of the other photobloggers I follow.
ReplyDeleteNice pattern, you did well.
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