Impact and Intent

Awesome

very creative. nice image.

This is cool! And it's a lot closer the the guidelines of the forum than the last one you posted. Nice work here!

Beautiful geometric shapes!!!! the oof bg looks great

.... bike crash glad you have recovered

I have looked at this, gone away, come back and gone away again! Whilst it is technically perfect using the kaleidoscope effect, for my tastes its just too geometrically presented and too perfect. I yearn for something out of place, something just a little wild and natural, but that's just me and I can only relate how this image affects me. I realise what you're trying to achieve with these images Alister but they leave just that something missing for my personal taste. Maybe its my female eye? or being born and raised in the open country? don't know!!

Glad being knocked of your bike hasn't resulted in anything more serious!!

HI Carol,

Thanks for the long comment, you've pretty much nailed what I wanted to achieve. In the city where the boundaries of nature and people are most profound the thing that is missing is exactly what you are looking for in this image, Nature, but it's not there. Cities tend to be ordered, less so in older cities, when their growth was dictated by natural features; rivers, hills, the ocean etc, but new cities are very ordered, just look at LA of Milton Keynes!! Chinese cities all look the same, north-south/east-west roads, ordered trees, little square parks.

In my images on the new gallery I wanted to infer that order and lack of natural context. If I want to take an image of natural beauty I'll head for the mountains, but I wanted to create a series of images showing the juxtaposition of nature in urban sprawl and how fragile and tenuous our natural world is in the face of human expansion.

Equally, in some of the images, my liberation comes from the kn owledge that in the ned, nature will prevail...

Thanks again,

Alister

Thanks for that Alister, as I said - I realise what you're trying to achieve ( and have achieved)

OK then - I challenge you to find a wild weed just growing somewhere in those cities and urban containment!! A little free spirit (apart from your own) that manages to survive in the concrete jungle.