Hopes, Plans and Potential

I am at present without camera however this gives me an oppertunity to put a little more thought into what I want to do when I get it back ... absence makes the heart grow fonder they say, not that I have any form of relationship with any inanimate object, let alone my camera.

Anyway, I though a good place to start would be things I have seen and just thought 'hmmm, I like the look of that' Or a picture that I have seen and thought 'That is why the camera was invented'

1. I have for aslong as I can remember I have been fascinated by the way that trees look alot like spiders webs when you look at them with a light behind them. It's quite hard to describe what I mean without the aid of a picture but I always found it very strange as I knew the branches didnt grow in that shape. I later came to realise that it is because only one side of all of the branches is light while the other side remains in darkness and therefore near invisibility at night time with a black background.  Because the light source comes from a single point the effect given is that of a circle, hense the spider web effect.
2. Smoke, water, fire, ink the list goes on... Basically those things have a special property which is quite hard to pin down, let me describe it like this: You could watch a smoking incense stick, a burning fire a flowing water feature or a drop of ink or dye falling into water for hours and not see the same pattern in the medium twice. It constantly changes like it has a life of it's own despite the fact that nothing appears to be causing the change. Taking pictures of these can be very hard, capturing the flickering of a flame or the rolling of a drop of water isn't easy because it's more than a visual stimulus, it's the smell of ashes and the sound of runing water that add to the experiance but none the less, I endevour to capture them. Seeing as I have already blogged fire water and ink my next step will be to attempt smoke, the most illusive of the four!
3. Fractals - patterns that themselves contain patterns and so on and so forth. 

You might have noticed water that has frozen quickly leaves behind streaks in the ice.
Or if you pull apart two peices of paper that had wet glue on them, the glue forms a pattern.
When salt crystals form from evaporating water.
The leaves of ferns.
The way tree branches grow.
The way that big rivers split near shore lines.
Certain cloud formations.
The way lightning forks.
Blood vessel formation.
the shape of bacteria colonies .
The feathers of a peacock.
The patterns on sea shells.
Snowflakes structure.
etc etc etc
This list is anything but exhaustive, throughout the whole of creation from the formation of molecules all the way up to the shapes of galaxies and even galaxy clusters fractals can be found in abundance. I have only given visual examples of fractals aswell, there are many fractals that can be found within music despite the fact that the artist had no intention of putting them there. There are even people who have come up with ways of explaining the stockmarket trends based on their understanding of fractals!  This has often been used as part of the design argument for the existance of god, unconclusive but arguably pursuasive. I am totaly blown away at some of the uncanny and phenomenal natural occurances of patterns such as fractals ( which is only one type of pattern ... try googling the fibbonachi sequence in nature) and can see why many are drawn to conclude that there is a God who made everything with a purpose and a plan.

Well, this is easily enough content to keep me snapping till I drop and then some, so I will stop here :)