hard as iron

[piranha]

i like that most things humans manufacture eventually get eaten by nature. i know, that sucks for archaeologists and others who investigate our past, and i do feel that loss. but deep down i'm rooting for the planet (no embalming desired after i croak either; feed me to the fishes).

Comments

[crantz]

That looks like it's squishy, not hard. ewww.

[piranha]

interesting. i had to skew my eyes every which way before i could see that. you're right, ewww, *heh*. *unskews eyes*.

[jesse_the_k]

This photo plays with temperature color in a fascinating way. The older links almost glow with fire, but rest harmlessly on the icy washed-out wood.

Beautiful!

[piranha]

thank you!

[graydon]

Oh, I like that.

"Rust and rain perform perpetually/going to get us all eventually" comes strongly to mind.

Did you have to move the chain?

[piranha]

the paramour found it a few feet from the log, and held it up for me to see -- it had clearly been moved there by somebody else. but at least i didn't carefully arrange it, i just draped it over the log. :)

i do always feel a little weird when i arrange an outdoor shot, but judging from other photographers they tend to do it even more than i do -- or otherwise they're much more lucky than i am to find that one unobstructed clearly backlit leaf without anything decrepit also being in the frame. i'm not even sure why i feel it's weird -- it's not like many things i see haven't been touched by humans before me.

[graydon]

There exists an entire class of macro photography devices for keeping the leaf, etc. from moving by attaching it to one's tripod, handy anvil, etc.; I don't think arranging outdoor shots (at least until heavy machinery gets involved :) is artistically questionable.

I asked mostly because the chain looks like it's been somewhere a good deal wetter than the top of that log, which in its turn shows no ferric or ferrous staining. (Oh, and the little bits of spall near the chain.) This does really good things for the composition in terms of the contrast of the elements.

I was thus mostly wondering if you'd moved it or if you'd discovered it fortuitously moved. :)

I feel odd about arranging things because I think of photography as being supposed to represent what's there, rather than what can caused to be there by the photographer. Wouldn't be a sensible attitude for fashion or portrait or product photography, but it seems to be prevalent among folks doing nature photography.