Friday, March 02, 2007

Photo Hunters: Salty




This week's theme was difficult. I decided to make salt crystals from recipes I found for science fair experiments. It didn't work. I had taken photos of the pot I boiled my salt solutions in, but they were ugly. So I made the photos into kaleidoscopes and amazing circles. Then, suffering from mid-winter break boredom, I played with these creations in GIMP. I learned some but not much. I offer them here as my final result. I really look forward to seeing what other people post today!

I used dumpr.net for the amazing circles and krazydad.com for the kaleidoscopes. Have a wonderful weekend and thank you for visiting!











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56 comments:

  1. This is an awesome picture! I love all the editing you've done - very cool! Thanks for visiting :)

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  2. Cool photo! I never would have thought to create a kaleidoscope!

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  3. Great photo - amazing. Happy weekend.

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  4. now that's ultra cool! Nice and creative... thanks for visiting.

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  5. Not only it looks beautiful, but I admire your creativity !

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  6. Very creative. I will have to look into those links. I am impressed that you would try to make salt crystals for the Photo Hunt. That is very ambitious.

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  7. Wonderful! Very impressive and I love your design! Enjoy your weekend! :)

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  8. Your picture will not open for some reason, I will come back later to see your kaleidoscope. Mine is up.

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  9. teriffic creativity! Love your take on this weeks theme! Thanks for visiting my photo!

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  10. I think your salt kaleidoscope is impressive!

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  11. That is really neat. I love your saly experiment. Have a great weekend.

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  12. WOW - what awesome photos!! I will have to try that!

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  13. You're very creative, I love it!

    Happy hunting. :)

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  14. I think your photo is gorgeous, it's so creative. Mid-winter boredom obviously has its benefits :)

    Have a lovely weekend.

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  15. Wow, you are so creative. You ended up with a beautiful photo, even if your original plan didn't work.

    Thanks for watching my movie! It takes about 4 hours from start of filming until the project is complete. Pretty silly for a 2 minute movie, right?

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  16. Wow, i am so impressed with all the effort you made! And what a result, a beautiful photo :)

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  17. So creative! Beautiful. :) Your experiment may not have worked, but the end result is beautiful.

    Thanks for stopping by and have a great day. :)

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  18. A lovely kaleidoscope! You're very creative. The result is fantastic. Thanks for sharing those sites too. I'll check them out later.

    Thanks for visiting me earlier.

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  19. You really put your heart into this one...Great photo.

    Take care,
    Connie
    Thanks for visiting me.

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  20. that's so cool!!!

    comments on blogger is having a prob? good thing i got haloscan...

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  21. your mid-winter boredom paid off :) it turned out great :) :)

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  22. I think your photo is just great and very creative!
    Happy weekend
    L

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  23. You sure went to a lot of trouble for this weeks theme!

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  24. Absolutely cool!

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  25. Interesting picture!

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  26. Oh, it's beautiful! Salt crystals are so gorgeous, like snow crystals!

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  27. So you really went through a lot of trouble to come up with something! Wow... An interesting picture it is. At first, before reading the text I thought it was a jellyfish or an ameba :D

    Thanks for stopping by!

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  28. Wow! Very creative picture. And beautiful! I was stumped with mine and my twisted train of thought took me to Woodstock.

    Wonderful and unique choice for "salty!"

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  29. How creative!
    I love the idea. Salty wasn't all that easy, was it?

    I know what you mean when you mention midwinter break boredom!
    I am stuck at home having to wait for my daughter and have been photographing anything that's around ;)

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  30. You know they make sugar in different colors... wonder why they don't make salt in different colors... that would make for interesting kaleidoscope pics too. This was a difficult theme.

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  31. that's pretty cool how you did that! Looks like fun to do. Thanks for sharing and for stopping by.

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  32. Wow.. this is a lovely creation. Very very Kool!

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  33. interesting effects!!! love it!
    .. and thanks for the links! :)

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  34. Great idea, very creative! and thanks for the fun links.
    Happy saturday!

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  35. That is an amazing picture! I though is the inside of some sea sponge or something! Great job on this weeks theme!

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  36. Well, good for you for going out there and trying to make science work for you! It was a lot more effort than what I did for my post! :-)

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  37. Wow, what a truly amazing picture!! Who would have thought that salt could look so nice! lol I remember as a child how much I use to love playing with my kaleidoscope viewer:-)

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  38. Looks like you had a lot of fun with it after all!

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  39. Very fu and very creative. :)

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  40. Quite a bit of work- but the result was interesting- almost struck me as a snowflake at first... until you count the spokes;)

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  41. That is an awesome picture and you win the prize this week for the coolest photo and the most original. No beach scenes here. Best take on the theme I've seen. Thanks for stopping by and sharing you photo!

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  42. Great picture! That was a very creative idea :o)

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  43. That is WAY cool!!

    Thanks for visiting me!

    http://photogfrog.livejournal.com/

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  44. You amaze me with the amount of time you spend on doing it. Great work!

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  45. I think this is perfect for this week's theme :) You are so creative. I just don't have the patience to learn new stuff. I always want everything done in a jiffy :). My Sweetheart plays with his photo-program all the time...

    Have a wonderful Sunday...

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  46. Oh wow, very cool! I love kaleidoscopes.

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  47. That is a really neat photo! Great work!

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  48. Very creative photo, I love it! Thanks for stopping by my blog, and have a great weekend.

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  49. your salt crystal is fantastic!! well done:)

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  50. Cool shot! I think that's the most creative idea that I've seen all day. Good work.

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  51. Talk about creativity! You really worked hard on your photo entry. Very cool!

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  52. Beautiful! Very creative. :) That came out wonderfully!

    Thanks for visiting. :)

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