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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Thankful Thursday: Goofy Bumble Bees

This is the time of year when the jewelweed blooms and the bumbles crawl into a blossom and hang there while they gather nectar and pollen.

I always chuckle when I see them through my lens.

All you see are two fuzzy, pollen-studded legs hanging out.

I'm thankful to be able to see and enjoy this.

Any day now, the hummingbirds will come through on their migration and stop for the jewelweed and phlox, also.

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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Friday Fractal: Fractal Trace on GIMP

I think it was a mistake for me to begin learning fractal software on Windows in February. The weather is great and I should be outside doing all sorts of stuff. But here I am playing fractals. I saw a reference to using a fractal trace filter on GIMP so of course I immediately had to sit down and play with it. Above is a photograph of jewelweed (also called spotted touch-me-not) taken on our Butterfield Pond hike in August. I used the map filter fractal trace and obtained the image below. I like the self-similar frame created by the filter.

I then chose another jewelweed photo and used the filter again:

Clicking on any of these images will open a new browser window and display a large photograph.

And finally I chose one of my favorite sunflower photographs:

I accepted the default settings for the filter on each of these photographs. There is a snowstorm coming next week (hopefully) so I will spend the snow day playing with the filter and other fractals some more. I find these GIMP and Photoshop filters to be a good way to enhance poor quality photographs (the second original jewelweed photo is not my best) and turn them into something interesting.