'Tis really beautiful. Actually, this reminds me of a period in my childhood when my dad would spray paint some tree trunks with similar designs to that, and he told us that they were Native American markings (he also burried bones in the back yard and my sister and I would go searching for them and we'd think we found dinasaur fossiles... those were good times ). I love your f.o.d. and the bright colors that stand out. Great job capturing the colors and pattern... hopefully such artwork as what these indians did will not become a part of history lost over time like so many other cultures have.

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very well shot

looks almost like a butterfly wing entrapped in a tree trunk... quite mystical! Great vibrant shot!!! Nice background information too!

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I love the way it looks sort of like a clock like looking for something and it costing time but once you take a closer look you see the art which is true in love as well.

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Wonderful observation, Ci'ara! It really does look like a clock face. It also could look like a possible sundial. Perhaps the shadows hitting the facets of the treetrunk allow the Chumash to know what time it is? Either way, I'm glad someone found deeper meaning in my picture. It means my job as a photographer has been a success!

Hey... we haven't talked in awhile! I miss our conversations =-) I hope everything is blessed with you! I'm sure learning many wonderful things through my journey of life. If you have time in the future, I'd like to hear about your adventures as well.

Thanks! It is a very good picture indeed! It could look like a sundial too huh!

Ahh yes my life has been well running and running without any breaks on the way, sounds like you have been doing well though. Perhaps sometime I'll be on AIM and we can talk see ya later,
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Actually, it struck me as a gambling table at first...but I guess that's just me. Heheheh... It's actually a beatiful picture. As soon as I saw it I felt a little bit lonely. Your photos are good at doing that to me. It's like a memory of some ancient time, or a familiar omen still to come in the distant future. Looking into unfamiliar cultures is one of my favorite things to do, because there's just so much to learn. Obviously we know from the history books about all there is to know about the US, but there are so many hundreds of other cultures out there, that to study every single one of them and know it all about them would take four or five lifetimes. Anyway, I love the photo. Very neat angle you chose there. I like it.

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Those are the emotions I try to evoke. SO I guess I've succeeded.

A question I've been asking myself lately... Who does the world truly belong to? Ever since the beginning of human life, they (the humans) have been taking the world and using it for their cause. They don't think about the trees or life on the planet. In fact, the animals lived here before us (give or take a few days)... yet they shove them aside in place for housing and commercial businesses. That makes me upset. Did you know that every minute enough trees are killed to cover from 20-50 soccer fields? They are destroying what was given to them. Another one of those things where I can just stand back and watch in horror as everything falls apart.

There's a verse in Genesis somewhere, I forget which verse but it's one of the first chapters, that says God gave man dominion over animals, and I suppose that's where hunting, tree cutting, city cuilding, and the like, come from. God put them here for us. So in that sense, it is not wrong. I do strongly think it is wrong how much people take for granted, though...they don't evem believe in God but think they have a right to slaughter animals and annihilate forests and such... the idea is right but today's principles are wrong...It is kind of depressing to just sit and watch, though. As for the rain forests, though...I've heard many missionaries to Africa, South America, and places like that who've been around them for years, they say even if there were huge corporations relentlessly destroying them, they'd still grow back faster than they were being destroyed..."save the rain forest" stuff is just bunk. And the Alaska pipeline business...my granddad's been to the site the environmentalists won't let them dig, and he says there are miles and miles of land the animals that are there can go to..and they just step over the pipelines that are already there. Anyways....I guess I'm just saying it's hard to tell. It's not wrong to use nature to help us survive, but I think America's gone waaay overboard with it, you know? It's like sheesh!

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