Dusty Miller

This is brilliant John.........a riot of different shapes and the occasional splash of colour. The detail is fantastic, especially when viewed large. My favourite photo of the day. I love it!

Thank you very much, Keith.

a great pattern here

Thanks, Annemarie.

Großartig ! Fantastic patterns !

Thank you very much, Ulrich.

The photo certainly has my eyes darting around, but the larger I see it, the less that happens. Interesting how our mind tells our eyes to look for order and method in something like this. And there is, but it takes a moment to realize that.

And we search for meaning. I spent a long time trying to write meaningless songs, but of course with text you can't escape meaning. Photographyshould not, to my mind, be simply an expression of text, but we (John Berger, for example) still try to impose order and meaning on it when it isn't. Going by all the pictures of grids I take, I think my unconscious may long for order and is thwarting my ambition to escape the rigours of meaning, order, and discipline.

I just remembered that I have always thought this photo was inspired by Richard Dadd's The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke, but I don't know why I think that. I'll put a link in thr drscription, anyway.

I haven't given up on searches for meaning, but that includes coming to the point when I think there is no meaning for me in something, though I may have missed it staring me in the face. I'm not sure I equate meaning to order and method, though. There can be the latter two conditions that don't convey any meaning to me, just pleasure or satisfaction that i caught them.

That's a reasonable approach, Bob, and probably more reasonable than mine. To me, meanings are best expressed in language and even then they're poorly communicated Words have different meanings to different people, for one thing. When they're expressed in images they're even less obvious. Here's a photo of mine that for me has several meanings. The group in the foreground has a meaning for me, but I can't really expect other people to get the message.

I'm surprised I didn't comment on it at the time. Preservation, of treasures, of lives. Indigenous lives, or any life that ended in suicide? Both, I imagine. But concentration on the latter is to miss the point of the former, and perhaps to dismiss it.

When I started thinking about what I thought was the meaning of the people in front I wasn't too sure. Anyway, they could be either indigenous or non-indigenous. Maybe the idea is you have to be quick to pass.

Awesome shot and patterns! Stay well!

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Thanks, William.

Definitely milling around.

Thanks, Steve. I see this as very dynamic myself.

Great image of this patterned work.

Thanks, George.

There is also a Queen song,The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke about a painting. ;)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=15A0F5aOoPM