More of an image for interest sake. Yesterday I drove down to visit my brother near Simcoe, Ontario. He lives on a 30 acre lot in the Carolinian forest of that region. While walking along one of the trails through his woodlot I came to a massive collection of black walnuts piled on the forest floor, most probably from a Red Squirrel collecting it's winter food supply. This is just a small section of the pile, but I would guess there were close to 300 walnuts in this cache. I thought it would look rather neat fracted.
Makes for a cool looking kind of abstract composition, Andrew. The fract treatment has a very nice effect on this, like the texture and combinations of colors. Thanks for sharing the background story as well.
11-20-2011, 07:12 AM
denise ippolito
Andrew, I like the effect and the abstract look of it too. I also love Black Walnuts! Very nicely seen.:S3:
11-20-2011, 12:36 PM
Jay Sheinfield
Good eyes on this one, Andrew. I like the FRAC effect on the leaves and all. I might darken the walnuts in the upper half of the image to the tones of the lower half walnuts just to give some separation from the surrounding leave and such. Still cool as is................good work!
11-20-2011, 07:12 PM
Cheryl Slechta
Andrew, I love the fract effect on the walnuts. That must be one fat squirrel:S3:
11-21-2011, 01:52 AM
Indranil Sircar
Beautiful fract work, Andrew. The narrative certainly adds a lot of interest and you have composed it very nicely.
11-21-2011, 05:04 PM
Andrew McLachlan
Thanks folks for the comments, much appreciated.
11-21-2011, 06:38 PM
Judy Howle
Nice pattern of the walnuts in your composition and excellent fract work!
11-21-2011, 06:42 PM
Maureen Allen
Nice comp and great fract work, Andrew. I had one of those trees in NY and used to have to fight with the squirrels to get some of the nuts :S3:
11-22-2011, 12:25 PM
Roman Kurywczak
Glad I popped in on this one Andrew! Didn't think I would like it from the thumbnail. Not only well done but very well seen too!
