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This month's Exercise in Style will have you searching for patterns and shapes that reflect the geometry of our world. There's plenty to be found in the urban world but it's the natural landscape that was the original inspiration for the creative thinkers and designers of the past.

Your mission... to seek out and record those patterns and, if you can, enlighten us to some of the more obscure; the patterns we take for granted or don't even see as we rush through our daily lives.

Images must be taken this month. Good luck and have fun!

Here's a very boring one that Blind Freddy could see...but it'll do for an example:

Perfect timing Simon - I had to go outside to check on the washing, and wham - I spied a rather mundane, yet iconic geometric pattern

What a classic! Can you still swing on it?

Nice one Patrick - you get the gong for next month's topic!

Manta wrote:What a classic! Can you still swing on it?

Nice one Patrick - you get the gong for next month's topic!

Definitely no swinging on that one - the weird angles in the photo are caused by the ~20 degree slant where it's rusted through.

Cheers, better get thinking

good topic!

Can we get this stickied please mods?

Here's something that most of us take for granted almost everyday.


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Great topic Simon. We are surrounded by it. Geometry that is.

Nice one Mark.

C'mon folks - we haven't exactly been killed in the rush here!! Surely there're a lot more patterns and shapes out there..

C'mon folks - we haven't exactly been killed in the rush here!! Surely there're a lot more patterns and shapes out there..

Im still trying to find a spherical rectangle

Here is my attempt - Super-womans plane

Yi-P wrote:Im still trying to find a spherical rectangle

Do you want to borrow my fish-eye?


Cheers
Steffen.

Bank of QLD building in Queen St, Brisbane. Taken on Anzac day, after the dawn service:



Or a variation on the original post by manta (MC Escher?):



or lastly...



edit: oops, just re-read the rules, not taken this month....

should I go take the pics again?
Tuck and Roll (A bug's life) "YOU FIRED!"

We'll forgive you Griffo. You've still got 21 days to get some more!
Nie shots - the third has indeed some interesting patterns. I'd be tempted to crop right in to the fronds and leave the viewer guessing what it was..

I took this picture as an aftertought last Sunday with my little Olympus SP350 without a tripod. I resized in PhotoShop and I sharpened it using PhotoControl. I just wanted to find out how to post images in this site. The focal length 8mm, F/3.5, Exposure 1/60 sec, ISO Speed ISO-50.

Great topic/subject! Will look into this one over the weekend!

I am not sure if it is allowed to have more than one entry or if this picture I took this morning is more appropriate for the month's theme, but and I like it because the sculpture (as big as a bus) mimics nature. Its geometric pattern represents nature and adds a familiar form to a busy city landscape.

I used Photoshop to convert it from RAW format to JPG and added a Gaussian Blur to give the subject more prominence. Some details are Canon 30D, ISO Speed ISO 100, Shutter Speed and Exposure Time 1/50, Aperture f/5.6, Lens 18-55, Focal length@ 53mm, Tripod, Raw Format.

SteveGriffin wrote:Here is my attempt - Super-womans plane

what is this, some sort of kite?

SteveGriffin wrote:Here is my attempt - Super-womans plane

Isn't it Wonder Woman's plane?

--Chuan, who won't mention the one about Wonder Woman, Superman and The Invisible Man.

Hangdog you are correct it is Wonder-Womans plane. It clicked a couple of days after I posted the pic but someone else had posted to the thread so I couldn't edit the post.

Wendellt - It is a FLAT wire frame sculpture that is hanging outside of the Museum in Brisbane only metres from the Zafra52's Cicada above. I PSed the wires that hold it up out of the picture. Careful use of angles makes it look 3D

I must go and check this Wonder Woman structure, since it is so close to the cicada. I thought Wendellt had taken a sky picture and created the structure on top using some graphic program.
Really guys, sometimes it is very difficult to know what is a real picture and what is a pictorial creation.

zafra52 wrote:I must go and check this Wonder Woman structure, since it is so close to the cicada. I thought Wendellt had taken a sky picture and created the structure on top using some graphic program.
Really guys, sometimes it is very difficult to know what is a real picture and what is a pictorial creation.

that's SteveGriffin's picture not mine
when i responded with the quote function it embedded his post in mine

it's a very interesting image i wonder how it's suspended up there?

Sorry Wendellt. I should have been more careful, mea culpa... mea culpa!
Yes, you are right the fact you don't see how the structure is supended in the picture is what made me think that it was a clever montage.
Anyway, once I receive my new lense from http://www.camerasdirect.com.au (I bought from them a Canon 28-135mm F3.5-5.6 IS USM hoping it is better and sharper than the supplied kit), I will pay it a visit and see it by myself. Not because I want to take that particular picture but because I was told to go and see the new facade of the Brisbane Library.

here is my little contribution:



Cheers,
CD

That's a very interesting and yet simple perspective Christiand. I quite like it.

There's a parking garage near Pitt Street Mall in Sydney that has this rather odd aesthetic (?) design feature just above the rollerdoor. I'd never noticed it before, but thanks to the ES, I was keeping an eye open for this kind of thing.

Quirky:

That is a very interesting pattern BT*ist. Quite interesting, in fact. Did you intended to be in B&W?

Hey Zafra (52) The detailing is metallic and relatively dirty. In other words, the colour (lack thereof) didn't really add anything so I removed it entirely. It must have been some 1960s/70s attempt to jazz up.... .something.... somehow!

BT*ist, it is a pleasant abstract.

My attempt at the ES - snowfence.



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Not all that many entries this month but the ones that have been submitted have been great.

Cheers,

André

Thought this angle might suit:



Cheers,
Mick

I dont know if this is geometrical, or qualifies?


Brett

Didn't work out how I saw it in my head but decided to post it up on the dartboard anyway.



Cheers, John

SOme great images here folks - well done. Jed, I reckon yours is my favourite. It's simple yet has a lot to offer when you look more deeply into it, exploring all those reflections.

Only a couple of days to go before Rooboy puts up the next topic!

Thanks very much, Manta.

Would have liked a touch more dof, but basically got what I was after.

Cheers, John

JED, I quite like it as Manta says it has interesting reflections. Well done!

It's been an odd month for me - mostly portraits. Any other month this year I would have had plenty of geometric images to choose from..



Great topic btw!

Gonna sneak another in while it's still August:



FM3a, 45mm f/2.8P, Velvia *cough*

Pure geometry of sound ...