pattern Archives

We’re wrapping up the first 3 months of the Tuesday Photo Challenge with a fantastic turn out for the theme of Patterns. Throwing out the challenge for all of you to let your brains do the thing that they do best, which is to use patterns to kep us going in our daily lives.

There were some fantastic patterns that were uncovered by these great participants. So let your brains do their work and find another pattern in this image…and then go check out the list of amazing posts and let them know what you think!!

The following were this week’s participants in the challenge with links to their posts:

The first entry was from MyFavouriite, a new blogger who found a really cool pattern in curry leaves.
Marisa, The Girl That Dreams Awake, showed off a fantastic pattern in the bark of a mystery tree; do you know what tree this is?
Kim provided a another great post on his blog Do You See What I See?; patterns of all kinds pop up in the great photos that he shares with us.
Miriam of the Out an’ About blog, showed patterns of all varieties in the images that she posted!
Debbie, whose blog is Forgiving Journal, wrote a great post about how patterns affect us.
Another new entry came from Emily, who writes Zombie Flamingos (great title), with the patterns in her life (love that cat!).
Another great new participant is Ladyleemanilla, who showed the patterns in Him Indoors’ projcet to build a model of the HMS Victory.
Marie, whose great blog is The New 3 Rs: Retire, Recharge, Reconnect, showed us patterns in architecture (you’ll want to see this one!).
Nikki’s post in her blog, A Kinder Way, went to the fence, her fence, to find some interesting patters and wrote a great post with it!
Steve’s post in Meandering Maverick showed some of the differences and similarities between man-made and natural patterns!

Another fantastic week with amazing posts. I’m very much looking forward to what next week brings!

I’m pretty much set for tomorrow’s edition, which will send you off into another direction of fun!

In this 13th (lucky 13!) episode of the Tuesday Photo Challenge, I’d like you to explore a direction that we haven’t taken thus far: in your photos highlight Patterns that you find in the world around you.

Everywhere we go, our brains find patterns in what we see, which allows us to be the highly functional human beings that we are on a daily basis! If we didn’t recognize patterns, but, rather, everything were new to us every day and every moment, we would be in a permanent state of confusion. Of course, I’d like you to take it a step further than mere quotidian observation… my challenge to you is to present the rest of us with patterns that we might not notice, if we walked by the scene.

When you keep in mind that photography is not only influenced by what you show, but very much by what you do not show in your image, I’m confident that you can come up with some patterns that we might not place right away.

As a little bit of inspiration to get you on your path to pattern fun, I’d like to share this image from February of 2009…

Beachscape-15.5x15.5_W4O8773 — *Beachscape*

As my wife and I were walking along the beach, these ripples caught my eye, as their pattern was more akin to sea serpents working their way back to the water than your everyday beach view. If you allow your eyes to travel upward from the bottom of the image, you might notice that near the top, the pattern breaks up, as if the serpents are going under water.

For those who’d like to participate in this weekly challenge, the rules are the following:

Write a post with an image for this week’s topic
Please tag your post with fpj-photo-challenge (if you’re not sure about how tags work, please check out this WordPress article about tagging posts)
Create a pingback link to this post, so that I can create a post showing all of the submissions over the week
Have fun creating something new (or sharing something old)!!

I am looking forward to your creative entries this week to see what fences catch your eye!