I was struck by something David Palmer said (comment 7) on my recent post on waterfalls:
…there’s something about the waterfalls that really captures for me the change in energy we experience in winter. The actual slowing of molecules. It’s as though by seeing this microcosm we experience something much larger.
Very poetic and all, but beyond that? In any case, it inspired me to think about the water molecules that you could see if you zoomed in with a super-microscope. So I did just that — digitally. The images in the following sequence are waterfall #2 (chosen for its square format) and successive two-fold magnifications of the center of the preceding image (but the actual image display size is reduced by less than that, so they don’t get too small):
Is that not the image of something much larger: a star in the depths of space, a few companions and nebulae nearby? That would fit right in with David’s thinking about the self-similarity of the physical world at different scales, as discussed in his interview.
Reminds me of Mandelbrot sets.
Steve, it’s an interesting experiment, but personally I experience the slowing of the molecules more in the original full image, when displayed beside a non-winter waterfall. It’s the change in energy relative to seasons that communicates this, not zooming in on the details.
An experiment is what it is. But I personally like the idea of making a diptych of the first and fourth, the latter showing a detail that is interesting in itself, and leads one to then look more closely at the larger scale for other details and how they are related. That’s different from your concept, but related. Of course, for this crude experiment the images are not optimally presented to support that idea.
Steve and SuniL:
I must be hungry because a Mandelbrot with mustard sounds delicious.
I cannot follow up on your observation because the picture file is too small, but I get the impression, when I squint at that dot in the last picture, that I can see a wee little waterfall in there.
Actually, that could happen. If the dot of light were a droplet of water, then it could be reflecting back an image of the waterfall from its own perspective.
Thanks for showing the image on its own as well as blown up. Earlier, I had focused on the rock and ice and did not appreciate the beautiful bifurcating stream that separates into even more watery branches.
Tough to appreciate art at a 450 pixel width.
I had a spot like that with pictures on my old digital camera. It happened with cold weather, but had nothing to do with water as far as I could tell.
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Dear Mr. Valve:
Yes, it might just be made of stainless steel. Good point.
Jay,
There’s not enough humor in the world that I can just send yours down the drain. Our stainless friend has been de-linked, but the poetry lives on. For more cyber-sonnets see Joanne Mattera’s brilliant editing job.
Perhaps Mr. Valve is a cyber-reincarnation of William Burroughs. Actually, his name is very similar to Steely Dan (also from Burroughs).
Steve:
Checked in on Joan Mattera and thoroughly enjoyed her “poetry”. I think I can see the influence of Vratislav Glider and maybe Lacay Schwark in her work.
David:
Might you mean by “reincarnation” of Mr. Valve that anus/typerwiter, the one who talks Bronx-ese in Naked Lunch ?
“I think I can see the influence of Vratislav Glider and maybe Lacay Schwark in her work.”
Oh, Jay, that’s good! My references come from “Orlando Freehold,” “Tammie B. WIseman,” “Dewitt Dailey” and the other other “senders.” Thanks for the mention.
Best to all,
Joanne
http://www.joannemattera.blogspot.com